- PII
- S0373-658X0000479-9-1
- DOI
- 10.7868/SX0000479-9-1
- Publication type
- Article
- Status
- Published
- Authors
- Volume/ Edition
- Volume / Issue 6
- Pages
- 6-28
- Abstract
- In the prototypical case, the actants (= arguments) of predicate words are syntactically subordinate to them and perform with them the function of a subject or object of one type or another. Valences filled in this way are called active. There are two types of non-prototypic valencies: (1) the actants syntactically subordinate their predicate word (the so-called passive valence) and (2) the actants are not associated with it by any direct syntactic connection (discontinuous valency). The last two types of valencies are mainly characteristic of non-verbal words - nouns, adjectives, adverbs, etc. Several linguistic concepts are connected directly or indirectly with the concept of an actant. However, usually these concepts are based only on prototypical - active - types of filling valencies. If we also take into account the valences of the passive and discontinuous type, then the range of phenomena associated with actants expands significantly, and, as a consequence, it is necessary to expand the scope of a number of concepts. We discuss some of these phenomena and show that the concepts of diathesis and conversion need to be generalized.
- Keywords
- actants argument structure valence diathesis predicate syntax
- Date of publication
- 03.11.2008
- Year of publication
- 2008
- Number of purchasers
- 2
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- 646
RAS History & PhilologyВопросы языкознания Voprosy Jazykoznanija
- ISSN (Print) 0373-658X
- ISSN (Online) 3034-5243
Do verbs only have diathesis?
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