Re: Changing worldviews with language (LONG)

Teoh wrote:
> > Valency is the property of a predicate that says which core arguments it
> > has.
>
>Interesting. So then Ebisedian verbs have 0 valency?
I'd guess so. If nothing else, I've been calling the Tairezazh verbs that
can't take subjects or objects (eg _kresht_ "(it) rains") "zero-valent", if
you remember our little discussion of (lack of) verb argument requirements a
while back.

                                                Andreas

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