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In the prototypical case, arguments (=actants) are directly subordinated to their predicates and occupy positions of the subject and direct or indirect object. Valency slots filled in this way are called active. In non-prototypical cases, arguments can syntactically subordinate their predicate (passive valency slots) and even have no immediate syntactic link with it (discontinuous valency slots). These types of valency slots are mostly characteristic of adjectives, adverbs and nouns. A number of linguistic concepts are related, directly or indirectly, to the notion of actant. However, usually only prototypical – active – valency instantiation is taken into account. If one includes into consideration passive and discontinuous valency slot filling, the area of actant-related phenomena expands greatly. We discuss some of these phenomena and show that the notions of diathesis and conversion require broader generalization.
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Boguslavsky, I. (2009). Enlarging the Diversity of Valency Instantiation Patterns and Its Implications. In: Bosch, P., Gabelaia, D., Lang, J. (eds) Logic, Language, and Computation. TbiLLC 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5422. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00665-4_17
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