Arity
Revision as of 23:14, 24 June 2007 by Linguipedia (talk | contribs) (New page: '''Arity''' is a term that is occasionally used to refer to much the same as valency (e.g. Reinhart & Siloni 2005). ===Origin=== The term was taken from mathematics. According to the...)
Arity is a term that is occasionally used to refer to much the same as valency (e.g. Reinhart & Siloni 2005).
Origin
The term was taken from mathematics. According to the OED, arity is "the number of elements by virtue of which something is unary, binary, etc."
Reference
- Reinhart, Tanya & Siloni, Tal. 2005. "The lexicon-syntax parameter: reflexivization and other arity operations." Linguistic Inquiry 36.3:389-436.
