Talk:Valency (linguistics)

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[edit] voice and valency

Another linguist and I were having a discussion at lunch today, and we were trying to figure out the difference between (grammatical) voice and valency. Is there a difference? Or are they just more or less similar terms used in different theories? I guess voice usually refers to 'active' or 'passive' (etc.), while valency usually refers to the number of arguments, but is that the only difference? Mcswell (talk) 19:26, 26 February 2008 (UTC)