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False concept
edit"it is arguably completely void of semantic meaning" -- seems a false argument to me.
The classic case of "It snows" - it obviously means that something is snowing (The weather, a cloud, the sky).
I have yet to hear a plausible example of avalency - I don't think it exists. I call the whole idea BS until there can be an example. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.243.106.82 (talk) 00:15, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
I agree with unsigned, an event necessitates a participant. The author confuses valency with cognate objects and noun dropping. It's obvious in that "it" refers to the atmosphere in all of the example cases... arguably a transitive verbs with an implicit cognate object (the atmosphere rains the raindrops), and a copular sentence (the atmosphere is cold). Sentences such as "It rains fire" and "*It is sleeting" show that dropped, fossilised cognate objects are to blame. Fishs (talk) 05:47, 17 March 2017 (UTC)