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• Middle voice
  ...ncy-changing derivation that intransitivizes the base verb and has various semantic effects (often lexically conditioned) such as [[reflexive]], [[reciprocal]] [[Category:Valency]]
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• Actant
  ...[[noun phrase]] (or other referential constituent) that is required by a [[valency]] of a [[predicate]]. *There is some difference between [[semantic actant]]s and [[syntactic actant]]s. E.g.:
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• Valency
  '''Valency''' (or '''valence''') refers to the argument-taking potential of [[verb]]s, the verb ''open'' is associated with the semantic roles Agent, Theme, and Instrument (e.g. ''John'' [AGENT] ''opened the door
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• Core argument (in RRG)
  ...argument]] of the clause, i.e. an element that is required by the verb's [[valency]]. :::*''"Core arguments are those arguments which are part of the semantic representation of the verb."'' (Van Valin & LaPolla 1997:26)
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• The middle voice
  ...middle marker is extended to mark [[anticausative]] situations, where the semantic role of the agent or the initator of the event is downplayed od virtually n ! Number of semantic roles
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• Complement
  ...uent A is the complement of another constituent B iff A is required by the valency of B. Mostly, the term 'complement' is only used for [[internal argument|in ...ng between complements and adjuncts”. In: Abraham, Werner (ed.) ''Valence, semantic case, and grammatical relations.'' Amsterdam: Benjamins, 21-46.
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• Kaili (en)
  ...fused affixes. Apart from voice in the stricter sense there are many other valency-related functions, e.g. causative and factitive. Only direct objects and un ===Other valency-related mechanisms===
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• Tsez
  ...animate object belongs. However, there are certain tendencies based on the semantic field of the nouns. Nouns that are able to move (like sun, moon, star, ligh ...takes the absolutive case. The recipient's case depends on the [[semantics|semantic]] nature of the transfer of possession or information: if it's a permanent
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