Is there a reference/archive of English verbs and their argument structure? That is to say, how many and what categories of arguments they require. And maybe even their theta roles? I don't expect there to be a comprehensive archive, but maybe there is a list of the most common verbs.
Something like this:
Though traditional dictionaries aren't particularly reliable for parts of speech, surely with a dictionary that gives examples it should be straightforward to extract the valency and roles from the examples.
However, if you want to -select- those verbs with a given valency/role structure (ie you want to produce a list of verbs that require an object and location), that doesn't exist as far as I know, though it would be a good summer project in computational linguistics to write a program to create that from examples.
That said, I'm sure one could compile such a list by hand for a given language from relevant research articles and language learning resources.
