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• Finite vs. nonfinite
  ...s or verbs in inflecting languages are often said to be '''finite''' or '''non-finite''', which means that they either have or lack [[tense]] and/or [[person-num ...ations. For this reason, it is unclear how to apply the terminology when a verb form lacks tense but has person-number specifications (like the Portuguese
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• Participle
  A '''participle''' is a [[finiteness|non-finite]] form of a [[verb]], generally with [[adjective|adjectival]] [[external syntax]] and verbal [ *[[Verb]]
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• Converb
  A '''converb''' is a non-finite verb form that serves to express [[adverbial]] [[subordination]], i.e. notions l ...often called [[infinitive]], [[masdar]] or [[nominalization]]. The notion "non-finite" in the definition is problematic and arguably Indo-European-centered.
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• Clause structure in Skolt Saami
  ...are many example sentences in Moshnikoff's school grammar (2009) where the verb comes in the second position. Even considering sentences without subjects or objects, the verb mainly comes at the end.
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• Root compound
  ...rbal]] or whose non-head does not have the function of [[argument]] of the verb from which the head is [[derivation|derived]]. ...r hand has a deverbal head and the non-head is an argument of the embedded verb ''drive''. The distinction between root compounds and synthetic compounds h
  2 KB (232 words) - 19:05, 28 September 2014
• Subjunctive
  The verb ''être'' in French has ''soit'' in (ii) as a subjunctive form, distinct fr
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• Unaccusative verb
  '''Unaccusative [[verb]]s''' are a subclass of [[intransitive]]s. Their [[single argument]]s denot ...rs in various ways from non-unaccusative intransitive verbs ( [[unergative verb]]s). In languages that have a distinction between the perfective auxiliarie
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• Case Assignment Conditions
  (i) accusative case if c-commanded by a transitive head (e.g a transitive verb like meet, or a transitive preposition like with or a transitive complement
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• Satzstruktur im Skoltsaamischen
  ...shnikoffs Schulgrammatik (2009) gibt es viele Beispielsätze, bei denen das Verb an zweiter Stelle steht. Auch wenn man Sätze ohne Subjekte oder ohne Objekte betrachtet, kommt das Verb meistens am Ende.
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• Subject Restriction
  ...o account for the observation that the subject (or external argument) of a verb cannot function as the non-head in a [[synthetic compound]].
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• Synthetic compound
  ...he non-head fulfills the function of [[argument]] or [[complement]] of the verb.
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• Impersonal construction
  :::*''"Whereas passivization detransitivizes a verb by deleting its logical subject, impersonalization preserves transitivity,
  2 KB (301 words) - 20:53, 3 July 2014
• Aspect
  ...entence that constitute the temporal structure of the event denoted by the verb and its arguments. Not all verbs have the same aspectual properties and so
  4 KB (579 words) - 02:29, 15 January 2019
• Theta-position
  ...in a theta-position being theta-marked as [[Agent]] and [[Theme]]. But the verb ''seems'' in (i) does not assign a theta-role to its grammatical subject ''
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• Ellipsis
  * [[Verb Phrase ellipsis]]
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• Aktionsart
  The relationship between the meaning of a verb and a specific type of situation is not absolute (cf. Bache 1995: 230). Som ...er restricting or limiting the activity, ''run'' becomes an accomplishment verb. The modifier ''a mile'' defines the terminal point of the process and make
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• Huddleston and Pullum's (2002) analysis of tense
  ...n the preterite tense (''went''). In "She goes to school" the tense of the verb is present (cf. Huddleston and Pullum 20022: 116).
  4 KB (599 words) - 18:20, 27 March 2011
• Restructuring
  ...le is available. A [[verb raising]] type of analysis, which would create a verb cluster, must be rejected, because non-verbal material, such as adverbs and
  2 KB (335 words) - 17:14, 28 September 2014
• Reanalysis (in generative syntax)
  ...]] at and the [[verb]] ''laughed'' are sometimes reanalyzed as the complex verb ''laughed at'' as in (i)b. ...ternal theta-role]]s in [[restructuring]] constructions containing a modal verb, see (ii), but it may also demote an external theta-role to become an inter
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• Merge
  Take for instance Merge of a [[direct object]] with a verb:
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