Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Avalency refers to the property of a verb of taking no arguments. Avalent verbs are verbs which have no valency, i.e. they have no logical arguments, such as subject, object, etc. A common example of such verbs in many languages is the set of verbs describing weather.It rains.It snows.It is freezing.It is snowing.Although in English these verbs do have what seems to be a subject, it, it is arguably completely devoid of semantic meaning and merely a syntactic placeholder, a dummy subject."@en }
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- Avalency comment "Avalency refers to the property of a verb of taking no arguments. Avalent verbs are verbs which have no valency, i.e. they have no logical arguments, such as subject, object, etc. A common example of such verbs in many languages is the set of verbs describing weather.It rains.It snows.It is freezing.It is snowing.Although in English these verbs do have what seems to be a subject, it, it is arguably completely devoid of semantic meaning and merely a syntactic placeholder, a dummy subject.".
- Q4827518 comment "Avalency refers to the property of a verb of taking no arguments. Avalent verbs are verbs which have no valency, i.e. they have no logical arguments, such as subject, object, etc. A common example of such verbs in many languages is the set of verbs describing weather.It rains.It snows.It is freezing.It is snowing.Although in English these verbs do have what seems to be a subject, it, it is arguably completely devoid of semantic meaning and merely a syntactic placeholder, a dummy subject.".