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• Actant
  ...or other referential constituent) that is required by a [[valency]] of a [[predicate]]. *The term ''actant'' goes back to Tesnière (1959) and has been fairly common especially in Eu
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• Complement clause
  *[[predicate actant]] (recent Russian usage (''predikatnyj aktant''), cf. Xrakovskij (ed.) 1985 ...n generative grammar of the 1960s (cf. Rosenbaum 1967, who used the term ''predicate complement''.)
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• Term (in relational grammar)
  * a cover term for [[individual expression]]s and [[predicate (in logic)|predicate]]s (in formal logic; see [[term (in logic)]]). Term roughly corresponds to [[actant]], [[argument]], or [[complement]] in other terminological traditions. Howe
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• Complement
  ...redicate]] is regarded as an [[argument]], but not as a complement of that predicate. ...ther than the [[verb]] itself) which is an obligatory constituent of the [[predicate]] (Lyons 1968: 345).
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• Argument
  ...la P(a), a is called the argument of the [[predicate]] P. Generally, for a predicate with [[arity]] n, in P(a₁,...,a_n), a₁,..., * [[actant]] (Tesnière's term)
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