Thomas Herbst, David Heath, Ian F. Roe, and Dieter Götz, A valency dictionary of English: a corpus-based analysis of the complementation patterns of English verbs, nouns and adjectives. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2004. Pp. xlii + 962. ISBN 3 11 017194 5

According to the preface, the book was motivated in part by the sense that a handbook on probabilistic linguistics, providing necessary background knowledge and covering the various subelds of language, was badly needed (p. vii). [...]the authors provide a brief introduction to, and the results of, an analysis on the basis of Classication and Regression Trees (CART). [...]a zero-valent use is possible (as in Lending is normally limited to the nancing of the foreign exchange costs of the imported goods, BNC EC3 289).1 Then the syntactic patterns of the possible complements are given, grouped according to the semantic role that is expressed by each of them. [...]a complement of lend with the pattern on N, for instance, can be found to occur in the divalent pattern marked D2 and the trivalent pattern marked T2, which are illustrated in the second section of the entry by It says it judges every property on its own merits, but will always 1 BNC stands for British National Corpus.