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Thank you MorphemeAddict: I thought that argument structure would be changed by argument structure changing suffixes only and that voice changing suffixes would only change voice. It is clearer to me now. TY FaqSphinx --- In Latejami@yahoogroups.com, MorphemeAddict@... wrote: > > In a message dated 7/16/2009 21:54:00 Eastern Daylight Time, > FaqSphinx@... writes: > > > > The impression I am getting is that valency and care requirments for > > verbs do not change with voice changes, but rather that topicality changes. > > > > Is this the case? > > > > The valency and case requirements do change when voice suffixes are added. > The topicality also changes. Changing the topicality is the motivation for > changing the voice, which is done by adding voice suffixes. > > Grammatical voice is discussed in section 2.7 Grammatical Voice. > Topicality is part of that discussion: > > However, natural languages have many ways of changing the relative > importance or topicality of a verb's arguments. Languages can also remove arguments > from the argument structure, while implying that they still exist, and make > the missing arguments either obliquely expressable or not expressable at > all. Finally, languages can also incorporate normally oblique arguments, making > them part of the argument structure of the verb. > > stevo >