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• Substantive universal
  ...in all grammars. Substantive universals are often contrasted with [[formal universal]]s. ...in Baker 2003), or even rules (such as [[passivization]], in [[relational grammar]]).
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• Formal universal
  ...matical rules. ''Formal universal'' is often contrasted with [[substantive universal]]. ...f rules into base rules and transformational rules, or the division of the grammar into surface structure and deep structure, or restrictions of transformatio
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• Foley & Van Valin 1984
  ...]] & [[Van Valin, Robert D., Jr.]] 1984. ''Functional syntax and universal grammar.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.<noinclude>
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• UG
  '''UG''' is a common abbreviation of [[Universal Grammar]].
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• Core argument
  ...rect core argument]] (used in more recent versions of [[Role and Reference Grammar]]) In more recent versions of [[Role and Reference Grammar]] (Van Valin & LaPolla 1997), ''core argument'' refers just to an [[argumen
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• Parameter
  ...ion]]. In Universal Grammar parameters specify certain options: the [[core-grammar]] of a specific language, then, is the result of the specific setting of th
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• Core argument (in RRG)
  In more recent versions of [[Role and Reference Grammar]], a '''core argument''' is simply an [[argument]] of the clause, i.e. an e In earlier versions of Role and Reference Grammar, there was also a notion of [[peripheral argument]] (Foley & Van Valin 1984
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• Syntactic category
  ...afe to say that the nature of syntactic categories is at the very heart of grammar."'' (Croft 1991:36) The term apparently originates in generative grammar of the 1960s, although it is also used by non-generativists such as Croft (
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• Role and Reference Grammar
  '''Role and Reference Grammar (RRG)''' is a [[syntactic framework]] that was developed around 1980 by [[R ...s.buffalo.edu/people/faculty/vanvalin/rrg.html Official Role and Reference Grammar website]
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• INFL
  ...Derivations,'' in:R. Freidin (ed) Principles and Parameters in Comparative Grammar, 417-454, The MITT Press: Cambridge, Mass. Reprinted in: Chomsky (1995). * Pollock, J.-Y. 1989. ''Verb movement, Universal Grammar, and the structure of IP,'' Linguistic Inquiry 20, pp.365-424
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• Promotion
  ...er used in narrowly Chomskyan work, and the technical term of [[relational grammar]] is [[advancement]]. ...On the distribution of passive and antipassive constructions in universal grammar. ''Lingua'' 50: 303-327.
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• Preferred Argument Structure
  ...Argument Structure''' is a term introduced by Du Bois (1987) for a set of universal statistical tendencies of (or "constraints on") [[argument]] distribution i ...ructure: Grammar as architecture for function.'' (Studies in discourse and grammar, 14.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins. ISBN 1 58811 369 8.
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• AGR
  *Pollock, J.-Y. 1989. Verb movement, Universal Grammar, and the structure of IP. ''Linguistic Inquiry 20''. 365-424.
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• Lexical Functional Grammar
  ...s, in reaction to the direction research in the area of [[transformational grammar]] had begun to take. It mainly focuses on [[syntax]], including its relatio The spelling ''Lexical-Functional Grammar'' is also used (e.g. Falk 2001, and on Joan Bresnan's homepage).
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• Oblique (a grammatical relation)
  ...h its meanings diverges considerably. It is a technical term in Relational Grammar, and it may well be that it spread to linguistics from there. ...997. "Discourse motivations for the core-oblique distinction as a language universal." In Kamio, Akio (ed.) ''Directions in functional linguistics.'' Amsterdam
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• Montague Grammar
  ...s can and should be based on the same principles, according to a Universal Grammar, of which the [[Compositionality Principle]] is the most important one. ...ical instruments: the sentences of English are generated by a ''categorial grammar'', the syntactic counterpart of [[type logic]], the logical language IL is
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• Adjunktion
  *A. Kidwai, XP-Adjunction in Universal Grammar. Scrambling and Binding in Hindi-Urdu. N. Y. 2000. [[Category:Generative grammar]]
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• Word Structure Autonomy Condition
  * Pollock, J.-Y. 1989. ''Verb movement, Universal Grammar, and the structure of IP,'' Linguistic Inquiry 20, pp.365-424
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• Generalized Quantifier Theory
  ...81) and Keenan &amp; Stavi (1986), as a framework for the investigation of universal constraints on quantification and inferential patterns concerning quantifie
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• Verb movement
  * Pollock, J.-Y. 1989. ''Verb movement, Universal Grammar, and the structure of IP,'' Linguistic Inquiry 20, pp.365-424
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