Paring Diatheses Down

Now let us apply the considerations of Chaps. 8 and 9 to the task of elaborating a list of diatheses. The VVP valency dictionary currently includes a (still partial) list of the diatheses needed to describe the valencies of Portuguese verbs. In the list, and also in the accompanying dictionary, they are stated in full, with all complements specified syntactically and semantically, as for instancewhich can be realized as