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
