Valency

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Valency (or valence) refers to the argument-taking potential of verbs, and sometimes also adjectives and nouns.

Comments

This term has always been more widespread in European linguistics than in American linguistics.

Synonyms

The following terms mean roughly the same as valency:

Origin

The term was adopted from chemistry by Lucien Tesnière.

References

Tesnière, Lucien. 1959. Éléments de syntaxe structurale. Paris: Klincksieck.

other languages

German Valenz

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