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A Dependency Grammar of English: An introduction and beyond
Timothy Osborne
[Not in series 224] 2019
► pp. 159–198

Chapter 6
Valency

Article outline
  • 6.1Overview
  • 6.2Tesnière’s metaphor
  • 6.3Semantic vs. syntactic valency
  • 6.4Valency frames
  • 6.5Finite vs. nonfinite verbs
  • 6.6Passive participles and ergative verbs
  • 6.7Clausal valents
  • 6.8Control
  • 6.9Raising
  • 6.10Missing objects
  • 6.11Auxiliaries
  • 6.12Light verbs
  • 6.13Beyond verb valency
  • Notes