. . "has semantic valency"@en . . "Ch. Chiarcos" . "\n\t\tSemantic valency pertains to the number of semantic arguments a predicate takes.\n\t\tThis is not necessarily the same as syntactic valency: In English, expletive \"it\" is\n\t\tused as a syntactic argument if no semantic argument is available, cf. van Valin and \n\t\tLapolla (1997).\n\t" .