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Revision as of 17:18, 18 June 2007
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 circumstants, i.e. optional modifiers of the clause.
Reference
- Tesnière, Lucien. 1959. Éléments de syntaxe structurale. Paris: Klincksieck.
Other languages
- German Aktant
