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Linguipedia: New page: An '''actant''' is the same as a syntactic argument, i.e. a noun phrase (or other referential constituent) that is required by a verb's valency. ===Comments=== The term ''...

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New page: An '''actant''' is the same as a syntactic argument, i.e. a noun phrase (or other referential constituent) that is required by a verb's valency. ===Comments=== The term ''...

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An '''actant''' is the same as a syntactic [[argument]], i.e. a [[noun phrase]] (or other referential constituent) that is required by a [[verb]]'s [[valency]].

===Comments===
The term ''actant'' goes back to Tesnière (1959) and has been fairly common especially in European linguistics since the 1970s. However, the synonym [[argument]] is becoming more and more common.

In Tesnière's terminology, actants are opposed to [[circumstant]]s, i.e. optional modifiers of the clause.

===Reference===
*Tesnière, Lucien. 1959. ''Éléments de syntaxe structurale.'' Paris: Klincksieck.

===other languages===
German [[Aktant]]

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 *The main subtypes of actants are [[subject]] (= [[first actant]])and [[object]]s ([[non-first actant]]s).
-*There is some difference between [[semantic actants]] and [[syntactic actants]]. E.g.:
+*There is some difference between [[semantic actant]]s and [[syntactic actant]]s. E.g.:
 **(1) some syntactic actants, like "dummy subjects" (like ''it'' in Engl. ''It rains.''), correspond to no semantic actant.
 **(2) some semantic actants, like "zero" object ('on what?') in Engl. ''It depends.'', correspond to no syntactic actant.
 ===Reference===

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 ===Other languages===
 *German [[Aktant]]
+*Russian [[актант]]
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-An '''actant''' is the same as a syntactic [[argument]], i.e. a [[noun phrase]] (or other referential constituent) that is required by a [[verb]]'s [[valency]].
+An '''actant''' is the same as a dependent syntactic [[argument]], i.e. a [[noun phrase]] (or other referential constituent) that is required by a [[valency]] of a [[predicate]].
 ===Comments===
-The term ''actant'' goes back to Tesnière (1959) and has been fairly common especially in European linguistics since the 1970s. However, the synonym [[argument]] is becoming more and more common.
+*The term ''actant'' goes back to Tesnière (1959) and has been fairly common especially in European linguistics since the 1970s. However, the quasi-synonym [[argument]] is becoming more and more common.
-In Tesnière's terminology, actants are opposed to [[circumstant]]s, i.e. optional modifiers of the clause.
+*In Tesnière's terminology, actants are opposed to [[circumstant]]s, i.e. optional modifiers of the clause.
 ===Reference===