Frontmatter -- Contents -- The scope of valency in grammar -- Valency complements or valency patterns? -- Describing semantic valency -- The status of valency patterns -- Verb valency patterns, constructions and grammaticalization -- Aspects of a diachronic valency syntax of German -- The valency of experiential and evaluative adjectives -- Valency rules? The case of verbs with propositional complements -- Valency issues in FrameNet -- Valency and cognition - a notion in transition -- Valency grammar in mind -- The acquisition of argument structure -- Valency and the errors of learners of English and German -- Temporary ambiguity of German and English term complements -- Sentence patterns and perspective in English and German -- Contrasting valency in English and German -- Valency in a contrastive perspective: Structure and use -- Valency and automatic syntactic and semantic analysis -- Handling valency and coordination in Database Semantics -- Pronominal clitics and valency in Albanian: A computational linguistics perspective and modelling within the LAG-Framework -- The practical use of valencies in the Erlangen speech dialogue system CONALD -- Valency data for Natural Language Processing: What can the Valency Dictionary of English provide? -- Backmatter.