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• Grammatical function (LFG)
  ...]] (Bresnan (ed.) 1982), the term '''grammatical function''' is used for [[grammatical relation]]s. Grammatical functions are ''[[subject]] of'', ''[[object]] of'', ''[[complement]] of'', ''[[head]] of'', etc., wh
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• Grammatical relation
  ...on''' is the most common term in American linguistics for notions such as 'subject', object', etc. (e.g. Marantz 1984 and the [[Relational Grammar]] literatur The term is used to refer to a link between two elements, while [[grammatical function]] refers to one of the members of a relation.
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• Promotion
  ...is what happens if an [[object]] (or [[internal argument]]) becomes the [[subject]] (or [[external argument]]) with all the usual properties of subjects due ...e syntactic status of an NP such that it becomes accessible to one or more grammatical processes which it could not otherwise undergo, for example, relativization
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• Click detection
  ...detection''' is a burst of noise that is introduced into one ear while the subject is listening to speech in the other ear. ...the position of the click in relation to the structure of the speech (e.g. grammatical structure, syllabic structure), information is gained about the way in whic
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• Subject
  The term ''subject'' has different meanings in different sciences. ...us and genus (only with a finite active verb; in passive constructions the subject does not have to agree).
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• Demotion
  '''Demotion''' is the phenomenon that a subject (or [[external argument]]) becomes an optional oblique phrase or [[adjunct] if we form the passive of ''break'' (= broken), the subject (or external argument) is demoted to become an adjunct (= the ''by''-phrase
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• No Vacuous Application Principle
  (i) -''en''<nowiki>: ]</nowiki>_V ___, [-logical subject] [-transitive] ...since they are [-transitive] (= cannot take a direct object) and [-logical subject] (= do not assign a semantic role to an external argument).
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• Passive
  ...ical object]] shows up as the [[grammatical subject]], while the [[logical subject]] is not expressed at all or shows up in an adjunct [[by-phrase]]. ...act the sum of a cluster of properties (logical object as subject, logical subject as optional adjunct, passive morphology on the verb, no Case assignment to
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• Complement (predicative)
  The term '''complement''' is sometimes used to denote the grammatical function of predicative phrases, in the same sense as [[predicate nominal]] Subject complement: ''The country became '''independent'''.''
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• Object
  The term '''object''' is sometimes used as a general term for a non-[[subject]] [[argument]]. [[Category:Grammatical relation]]
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• Path Containment Condition
  ...of [[constraint]]s on [[crossing]] and nested dependencies, such as the [[Subject condition]] and the [[ECP]]. The condition states that if two paths overlap ...ned' in the path of ''what''. Hence (ii) obeys the PCC and the sentence is grammatical. See [[Connectedness]].
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• Appositive noun phrase
  ...atra sings’ ''Cleopatra'' is ''in apposition with'' the affixal pronominal subject ''-t'' (cf. Jelinek 1984 for one influential example of this usage). The precise grammatical relation between the appositive NP and the bound pronoun has rarely been id
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• Theta-position
  ...gn a theta-role to its grammatical subject ''John''. Therefore, the matrix subject position, although an A-position, is not a theta-position.
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• Term (in relational grammar)
  ...'term''' is used for an expression bearing the [[grammatical relation]] of subject ("1"), direct object ("2"), or indirect object ("3"). Non-terms are [[obliq
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• Zero (Morphosyntax)
  :::*''"...dans tout paradigme grammatical, lorsqu'une forme dépourvue de morphème est nécessairement liée à un e :::*''"In other cases there is not even a grammatical feature: a single phonetic form, in the manner of homonymy, represents two
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• Chain
  In syntax, a '''chain''' is a set of syntactic elements subject to specific conditions. Grammatical properties, such as [[theta-role]]s and Case visibility ([[visibility condi
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• Agreement
  *Agreement of [[verb]] with [[subject]] noun phrase: ...is a [[functional projection]] of the agreeing verb, and the element (the subject) in the specifier position of the AGRP. Likewise, assignment of [[structura
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• Reduplication
  ...can be semantic (intensity, plurality, etc) or grammatical (agreement with subject, aspect, etc).
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• Lexical Functional Grammar
  the representation of [[grammatical function]]s ([[f-structure]]) ...nclude [[feature]]s such as number and tense or functional units such as [[subject]], [[predicate]], or [[object]].
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• Affixes
  ...hey are parts of the syntactic X⁰). Affixes need stems as their grammatical hosts, they necessarily cooccur with stems. ...f the X⁰. The following [[Lai Chin]] sentence consists of one [[grammatical word]] having three affixes, but phonologically, it is three words. ''Nhaa'
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