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• Predicate
  ...f) [[argument]](s) in a [[predication]]. Constituents with the function of a predicate are called [[predicate terms]]. However, the distinction between ...nt-variant: small-caps;">like</span> takes a pair of entities (rather than a single entity) which functions as an argument of that predicate.
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• High vowel
  ...y]], a '''high vowel''' is a [[vowel]] that is produced with the tongue at a level close to the top of the [[oral cavity]], and above the position used
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• Commissive
  A word used in the field of speech act theory to describe a statement in which the speaker intends to an upcoming path of action, such I promise, I will buy you a present for your birthday.
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• Theta-government
  '''Theta-government''' is the configuration in which a [[governor]] [[theta-marking|theta-marks]] the phrase that it governs, form (i) a theta-governs b iff a governs b and a theta-marks b
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• Speech act
  A '''speech act''' is a what a [[speaker]] does in [[utterance|uttering]] a [[sentence]]. ...ve something). The last type of act is linguistically not relevant. Within a truth-conditional approach, only the locutionary act is seen to be relevant
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• Transitive verb
  ...erb that takes at least one object. Depending on the exact number of verbs a distinction is made between [[monotransitive]] (one object) verbs and [[dit
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• Descriptive adequacy
  ...of [[:category:linguistic theories|linguistic theories]]. A theory attains a higher level of descriptive adequacy if it can handle more natural language The assessment of a theory's descriptive adequacy obviously is closely related to what counts a
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• ABX discrimination
  ...d is the focus. The first two stimuli (A and B) are standard, S1 and S2 in a randomly chosen order, and the subjects’ task is to choose which of the t Macmillan, N.A. & C.D. Creelman. 1991. ''Detection Theory: A User’s Guide.'' New York: Cambridge University Press.
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• Vacuous quantification
  ...the variable is not in the [[scope]] of that quantifier (cf. All(x) in (i)a), or because there is another quantifier already binding the variable (cf. (i) a All(x) [ P(j) ] &amp; Q(x)
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• Leftness condition
  ...msky]] (1976) which states that a [[pronoun]] cannot be [[coindexed]] with a [[variable]] to its right. See [[Weak crossover]]. ..., Projet sur les langues kru: Premier rapport, pp.176-202, Univ. du Quebec a Montreal
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• Trace
  ...the location in a sentence or syntactic [[tree structure|tree]] from which a [[lexical item]] has been moved. From the original structure, [[wh-movement]] creates a trace where ''John'' used to be.
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• Illocutionary force
  ...etc. This term should not be confused with [[illocutionary act]], which is a [[speech act]], expressing the intention of the speaker. ...is an illocutionary act of a request: it would be improper to answer with a simple 'yes'.
  750 bytes (112 words) - 03:27, 18 May 2009
• Abstract noun
  ...non-material, non-perceptible entity. The opposite of an abstract noun is a [[concrete noun]].
  387 bytes (53 words) - 09:06, 14 June 2014
• Word boundary
  In [[generative phonology]], a '''word boundary''' is a [[boundary]] indicated with the symbol #.
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• Argument term
  ...term''' is a constituent denoting an [[argument]]. In syntactic research, a distinction between 'argument terms' and 'arguments' is rarely made.
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• Segment (in phonology)
  ...ound element that can be isolated in the chain of speech, corresponding to a letter in alphabetic representation of speech.
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• Subject Restriction
  ...ubject (or external argument) of a verb cannot function as the non-head in a [[synthetic compound]]. * Roeper, T. and D. Siegel 1978. ''A Lexical Transformation for Verbal Compounds,'' Linguistic Inquiry 9, pp. 19
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• Role-dominated and reference-dominated languages
  A language is said to be '''role-dominated''' if contrasts between basic [[se ...role-dominated language is Archi (Nakh-Daghestanian). A typical example of a reference-dominated language is English.
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• Logonection
  A '''logonection''' in [[neurocognitive linguistics]] is a lexical nection.
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• Sentence topic vs. discourse topic
  ...''', i.e. what a sentence is about, and a '''discourse topic''', i.e. what a discourse is about. ...want to leave, but he couldn't afford the rent, you know. And it had such a nice garden in the back!''
  738 bytes (125 words) - 18:20, 28 June 2014

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