The article deals with semantico-syntactic changes in Slovene, as seen from the point of view of valency development. Such changes manifest themselves primarily in the creation of new senses and in the rearrangement of old senses in verbal lexemes, in the formation of prevalent verbal compounds (which leads to a narrowing of the (agentive) valency field to produce the prevalent monotransitive pattern – accusative monovalency), and in condensed sentences with nominalization of action within the complex predicate (which brings about a wide use of verbal derivatives and adjectives with prepositional morphemes).
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