Typological Research on Actancy: The Paris RIVALC Group
Gilbert Lazard · 1995
Abstract The purpose of the program called RIVALC ('Recherche interlinguistique sur les variations d'actance et leur correlats') is to investigate, in languages as different as possible, actancy variations, that is, variations of the grammatical relations which link the verbal predicate and the main noun phrases (the actants), and to detect the relevant factors which correlate with these variations, the final aim being, if possible, to reach what are presumably universal invariants.