Toward developing Persian-English verb valency dictionary

The correct word order and relation between them form a coherent utterance. This is possible according to certain rules in valency Theory (Tesniere 1959) which are based on the centrality of the verb and the relationship between the verb and the constituents within the sentence. On the other hand, the better understanding of a coherent utterance which is based on the Frame Semantic Theory (Fillmore 1976) associates with a specific frame for each linguistic expression and the relation between constituent elements of a sentence. The significance of contrastive analysis of syntactic and semantic valency of verbs in various languages in the proposed frames as well as its application in the fields such as manual and machine translation, natural language processing and language teaching motivated us to develop a Persian- English verb valency (PEVV) dictionary. The present study provides the satges of developing this dictionary and its component by concentrating on some verbs of "Filling Frame" and shows how the valency of Persian verbs and their English equivalence differ.