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Description
NomVallex is a valency lexicon of Czech nouns and adjectives, aimed primarily at describing the valency of individual noun and adjectival derivational categories in response to their insufficient theoretical description and coverage in lexical resources. Annotation has proceeded from the more extensively studied derivational categories (deverbal nouns and adjectives) through deadjectival nouns to the least researched denominal derivatives and compounds. Since valency is often affected by word-formation relations, NomVallex has implemented features for capturing derivational relations between derivationally related lexical units, and for comparing their valency. Although the annotation in NomVallex often encompasses more than one derivative of a particular base word, only a limited portion of the word-formation relations in Czech is covered there. The lexicon therefore newly provides links to DeriNet, where users can view a given word in the broader context of its derivational relations. Moreover, to display derivational relations and changes in valency associated with the word-formation processes in whole networks of derivationally related words recorded in NomVallex, version 2.7 has introduced a DeriNet-like graphical representation of derivational relations, which is available in a user-friendly format on the lexicon’s website, facilitating further linguistic research into the influence of word formation on the valency of derived words.