TY - BOOK AU - Marianna Hudcovičová PY - 2017 CY - Berlin, Germany PB - Peter Lang Verlag SN - 9783653072716 TI - Grammatical Collocations of Verbs and Prepositions DO - 10.3726/978-3-653-07271-6 UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1050682 N2 - This book presents empirical research of grammatical collocations of the type: verb and the prepositions «of» and «to». It is based on comparisons of English and Czech sentences containing verbs and prepositions that are followed by the object. The author creates English–Czech verbal prepositional counterparts and groups on the grounds of the similar semantic, syntactic features. She identifies the features that are the same for each verb group and generalizes them. The book determines trends and tendencies for verbs when they collocate with a certain preposition. KW - Verbs, Prepositions, Verbal prepositional structures, Semantic group, Valency, Equivalency LA - English ER -