Ժամանակակից հայերենի` խնդրառությամբ միարժույթ չեզոք սեռի բայերը/Univalent Intransitive Verbs with Objective Valency in Modern Armenian

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to study the valency of intransitive verbs in Modern Armenian. The work was carried out using descriptive, analytical, comparative and statistical methods. Intransitive verbs of the Modern Armenian language are characterized by all manifestations of valency: subjective valency, predicative valency, valency in terms of acceptance of direct address and adverbial modifiers. Intransitive verbs representing different semantic groups are distinguished from the point of view of objective valency. Most of these verbs have objective valency. Some take object, but not by means of strong government, others do not have object valency at all. Intransitive verbs require object through both direct and indirect government. Among phrases with direct government, the most common are verbs that require an object in the dative case, which is due to the semantic diversity of the latter. From the point of view of their ability to accept the object through strong government, intransitive verbs are univalent and bivalent. The two objects that bivalent verbs require can be expressed in one case with two different cases, in another with two different prepositional constructions, and in the third case with one case form and one prepositional construction.