Syntactic Information in Monolingual Dictionaries

We have here wanted to show how inadequate monolingual dictionaries can be in providing syntactic information as to the verb arguments and how they pattern together. By examining some verbal classes, we have thus brought to light several deficiencies in the present classificatory procedure of the Oxford Learner's Dictionary Our work ends with a proposal as to a new model of syntactic representation along the lines of the lexicon-grammar approach.