Required Arguments?

We recently discussed verbs that absolutely required arguments (like "kill"
or "tell") and some that forbade arguments (like "rain" in some languages),
but I was just thinking... what if you had nouns that required an argument?
The words "son" and "daughter" are almost like this in English.  You usually
don't use the word "son" without saying "son of someone" or "someone's son".
Imagine a language that required an argument to go with "son" like this.
Just an idea that popped into my head while working on a WWI boardgame.  Why
it came up then, I don't know.

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