In linguistics, valency or valence is the number and type of arguments controlled by a predicate, content verbs being typical predicates. Valency is related...
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Look up Valence, valence, valencies, or valency in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Valence or valency may refer to: Valence (chemistry), a measure of...
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Predicates have a valence; they determine the number and type of arguments that can or must appear in their environment. The valence of predicates is also...
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blows into it." (valence = 1) (b.) sa-duu-tá-ra 3SG-blow-APPL-INAN:OBJ sa-duu-tá-ra 3SG-blow-APPL-INAN:OBJ "He blows it." (valence = 2) This same -ta...
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Valent may refer to: Valent (name) Valence (chemistry) Valency (linguistics) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Valent....
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Language change (redirect from Corruption (linguistics))
subfields of linguistics: historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, and evolutionary linguistics. Traditional theories of historical linguistics identify...
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clause. Thus, turning an active sense of a verb into a passive sense is a valence-decreasing process ("detransitivizing process"), because it syntactically...
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In historical (or diachronic) linguistics, subjectification (also known as subjectivization or subjectivisation) is a language change process in which...
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Blend word (redirect from Blend (linguistics))
In linguistics, a blend—also known as a blend word, lexical blend, or portmanteau—is a word formed, usually intentionally, by combining the sounds and...
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In linguistics, a filler, filled pause, hesitation marker or planner (sometimes called crutches) is a sound or word that participants in a conversation...
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Dictionary of Historical and Comparative Linguistics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. p. 211. "ASL Linguistics: metathesis". Retrieved 2014-01-25. Sandler...
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grammar is a system of linguistic analysis, focusing on the link between the valence, or number of subjects, objects, etc., of a verb and the grammatical context...
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Verb (redirect from TUTT (linguistics))
English. The number of arguments that a verb takes is called its valency or valence. Verbs can be classified according to their valency: Avalent (valency =...
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Romance linguistics is the scientific study of the Romance languages. Romance languages have a number of shared features across all languages: Romance...
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verb Transitive verb Ditransitive verb Valence increasing Causative Applicative Benefactive Dative shift Valence decreasing Passive Antipassive Impersonal...
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constriction can determine the valence of surprise from the action to the reaction of the individual. Positive valence to surprise is shown through a...
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Babine-Witsuwitʼen language (section Voice / Valence)
misnomer; voice and valence markers are more appropriate descriptors. Each lexical entry of Witsuwitʼen verbs features a lexicalized voice/valence marker fused...
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Conditional sentence (redirect from Protasis (linguistics))
ISBN 978-0521431460. von Prince, Kilu (2019). "Counterfactuality and past" (PDF). Linguistics and Philosophy. 42 (6): 577–615. doi:10.1007/s10988-019-09259-6. S2CID 181778834...
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Balkan sprachbund (redirect from Balkan linguistics)
notion of “Balkan linguistics,” saying that one can talk about “relationships of borrowings, of influences, but not about Balkan linguistics”. The term "Balkan...
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Radical (section Linguistics)
Reformation Radical (chemistry), an atom, molecule, or ion with unpaired valence electron(s) Radical surgery, where diseased tissue or lymph nodes are removed...
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Grammatical tense (redirect from TCOM (linguistics))
tenseless language". Linguistics and Philosophy. 34 (3): 257–303. doi:10.1007/s10988-011-9097-2. S2CID 62125736. Daniel Couto-Vale, 'Report and Taxis in...
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psychological terminology, we can say that these terms carry "emotional valence", as they presuppose and generate a value judgement that can lead to an...
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1976), "The Reconstruction of Proto-Central Pacific", Anthropological Linguistics, 18 (5): 187–235 Geraghty, Paul (1996), "Some Problems with Proto-Central...
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Jespersen's Cycle (category Historical linguistics)
Jespersen's Cycle is a series of processes in historical linguistics, which describe the historical development of the expression of negation in a variety...
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Prefix (redirect from Prefix (linguistics))
(2011). Language Files: Materials for an Introduction to Language and Linguistics. Ohio State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8142-5179-9. Look up prefix...
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objects which refer to a theme and a recipient. According to certain linguistics considerations, these objects may be called direct and indirect, or primary...
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(2007). "A typology of tritransitives: alignment types and motivations". Linguistics. 45 (3). Germany: Walter de Gruyter: 453–508. doi:10.1515/LING.2007.015...
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Salishan languages (section Historical linguistics)
increase the number of affixes a verb can take on, that is, its syntactic valence. They are also known as "transitivizers" because they can change a verb...
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Symmetrical voice (redirect from Trigger (linguistics))
in Tsou and Seediq. Language and Linguistics, 3(4), 665-694. Fortin, Catherine. (2003). Syntactic and Semantic Valence: Morphosyntactic Evidence from Minangkabau...
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OCLC 794619866. Image at York University, Department of Languages, Literatures & Linguistics. Archived February 3, 2014, at the Wayback Machine Covington, Michael...
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