Valency: valency
Valency is a language specific feauture for Skolt Sami, as transitivity of a verb is only related to the presence of obligatory direct objects but not obligatory obliques.
1: intransitive verb (1 argument)
Examples
- ja kueʹllen vuâjj. “and swims as a fish.”
2: transitive verb (2 arguments)
Examples
- Näʹde muõrid räʹjje… “So he cuts down trees…”
Valency in other languages: [bm] [koi] [kpv] [mdf] [myv] [sms]