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Argument structure
The number of arguments, that is participants or entities, that a word-level relational predication such as a verb may be combined with. For instance, a verb like die only involves a single participant: She died, while a verb such as love involves two: I love you, and a verb like put involves three: He put the butter on the table. The notion of argument structure is central to the verb argument constructions studied in construction grammar (2).
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