decades later in the late 1940s and 1950s. Lucien Tesnière is credited most with having established the valency concept in linguistics. A major authority on the valency of the English verbs is Allerton (1982), who made the important distinction between semantic and syntactic valency.

Types

There are several types of valency:
#impersonal (= avalent) it's raining
#intransitive (monovalent/monadic) he sleeps
#monotransitive (divalent/dyadic) he kicks the ball

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