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predicate licenses—i.e. what
arguments the
predicate selects grammatically.
Avalent verbs are
verbs which have no valency,
meaning that they have no logical...
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valency or valence.
Verbs can be
classified according to
their valency:
Avalent (valency = 0): the verb has
neither a
subject nor an object. Zero valency...
- abbreviation(s) (help);
Examples with
avalent, monovalent, bivalent, and
trivalent verbs are
shown below.
Avalent Itunma itun-ma late.afternoon-PFV Itunma...
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Makalero has only
avalent verbs and
divalent verbs.
There are no
trivalent verbs; instead,
biclausal constructions are used. The
avalent verbs are adverbial...
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syntactic valency.
There are
several types of valency:
impersonal (=
avalent) it's
raining intransitive (monovalent/monadic) she
sleeps transitive (divalent/dyadic)...
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grammatical person. In
terms of valency,
impersonal verbs are
often avalent, as they
often lack
semantic arguments. In the
sentence It rains, the pronoun...
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September 2012,
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October 2012 Les modérés de l'UMP
avalent difficilement le pain au
chocolat de Copé, L'Express, 8
October 2012 Bruno...
- " Le
Soleil (in French).
Retrieved November 24, 2019. "Les homéopathes
avalent de travers". Radio-Canada
nouvelles (in French).
November 20, 2006. Retrieved...
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verbs that are
avalent (no actant),
monovalent (one actant),
divalent (two actants), and
trivalent (three actants).
English examples:
Avalent verb: It rained...
