ABSTRACT
A central problem for all models of grammar is to account for the matching between individual verbs and the syntactic frames in which they appear. In its simplest form, it is the question of just which verbs are followed by zero nouns (intransitive, such as cough, sneeze), one noun (monotransitive, such as slap), or two nouns (ditransitive, such as give). The noun patterns that follow a verb are commonly referred to as the verb's argument structure.
