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  • *P. Fletcher & B. MacWhinney (Hg.), Handbook of Child Language. Oxford 1995. *N. Hyams, Language Acquisition and the Theory of Parameters. Dordrecht 1986.
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  • ...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 Due to this impreciseness, a number of linguists have suggested that the terminology should be abandoned entirely
    2 KB (256 words) - 16:33, 14 October 2015
  • ...that is required by another (predicative, argument-taking) constituent ([[verb]], [[relational adjective]], [[relational noun]]). In this second, syntacti ...ument of ''obvious''. The phrase ''next week'' in (ii) is not an argument (of ''visit''), and is assigned no theta-role.
    3 KB (409 words) - 17:35, 18 June 2014
  • ...Funktion; drückt semantische Eigenschaften des Verhältnisses zwischen dem Verb und seinen Argumenten aus). In den verschiedenen Richtungen der Kasusgramma ''Le fils'' ist nicht das Agens, sondern der Rezipient, da das Verb ''erhalten'' keine willentliche oder beabsichtigte Handlung impliziert.
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  • Saying that a language X (the [[recipient language]]) '''borrows (i.e. copies)''' ...'''native elements''', which we can take back to the earliest known stage of a language, and '''borrowed elements''', which were imported at some time f
    3 KB (454 words) - 17:05, 9 September 2009
  • ...''' is a [[tense]] which indicates that an event occurs after the [[moment of speech]] (cf. Comrie 1985). ...in the proposition, which refers to an event taking place after the moment of speech, will hold.”''
    9 KB (1,339 words) - 22:00, 19 September 2009
  • ...and in opposition to '''[[constative]]''' utterances, which are statements of facts. ==John L. Austin and his Theory of Speech Acts==
    10 KB (1,477 words) - 13:07, 2 March 2018
  • ...tion preserves transitivity, and merely inhibits the syntactic realization of a surface subject."'' (Blevins 2003). The non-realized subjects of impersonals are often interpreted as indefinite human agents, thus those co
    2 KB (301 words) - 20:53, 3 July 2014
  • ...inflected forms are just variants of one and the same word. Some examples of grammatical information that can be encoded by inflectional morphemes inclu ...s'', ''noun-nouns''). The plural forms ''dogs'' and ''nouns'' are variants of the base nouns ''dog'' and ''noun''.
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  • ...Proto-Indo-European on the immediately preceding syllable (in the majority of sources notated as ''f'', ''þ'', ''χ'', ''χʷ'', ''s'' becoming ''ƀ'', ...Grimm's law were noticed before Verner: the voicing alternation in certain verb paradigms had been already described by Braune (1874) and was referred to a
    3 KB (359 words) - 10:06, 14 September 2014
  • ...roperties and so may belong to different [[aspectual classes]]. The aspect of a sentence is in many languages expressed syntactically and/or morpho-phono ...ituation]], whereas tense tense relates the [[topic time]] to the [[moment of utterance]].
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  • ...age in which the speakers are bilingual and which is the dominant language of the speakers. ...djective is ''metatypic'' (e.g. "metatypic change"), and the corresponding verb is ''metatypize'' (e.g. "a metatypized language", i.e. a language that has
    3 KB (356 words) - 16:05, 13 July 2014
  • Das [[Verb]] steht am Anfang des Satzes. Gibt es sowohl ein [[Subjekt]] (S) als auch e Die Negation in der Fidschi- Sprache ist durch das Verb 'sega' gekennzeichnet. Nimmt 'sega' eine NP als Subjekt wird es mit 'es gib
    17 KB (2,362 words) - 19:56, 3 February 2013
  • ...native competence in the language, most Irish people being native speakers of [[English]]. ...le. In the southern (Munster) dialect, stress falls on the second syllable of a word if that syllable contains a long vowel or diphthong. If the second s
    13 KB (1,654 words) - 20:27, 4 July 2014
  • ...ld about it, that it is a matter only of appearance, based on the evidence of (possibily fallible) senses."<ref name="pal1"/> </blockquote> ...odalität wird beispielsweise in [[Germanic|germanischen Sprachen]] durch [[Verb|Verben]] wie ''may'' und ''can'' grammatikalisiert. Starke epistemische Mod
    9 KB (1,188 words) - 17:40, 1 June 2014
  • ...nstituents which was originally intended to place constraints on the power of [[phrase structure rules]]. X-bar theory captures the insight that all phra The structures in (i) have in common that the head (noun, verb, adjective, or preposition) has an element to its right, which can be const
    5 KB (726 words) - 18:48, 7 September 2014
  • ...], the comment is [[new information]] about it. The topic is thus the part of the proposition that is being talked about ([[Predication|predicated]]). On :::*''"An entity E is the topic of a sentence, S, iff in using S the speaker intends to increase the addressee
    4 KB (617 words) - 08:05, 23 May 2014
  • ...tood' definition is for instance given in the ''International Encyclopedia of Linguistics'' (Bybee 1992: 223f.): ...d by inflections, by particles, or by auxiliaries in construction with the verb [...].
    26 KB (4,208 words) - 16:34, 27 July 2014
  • Michif is spoken in scattered Métis communities in the provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Canada and in North Dakota and Montana in the ...r than 1,000; it was probably double or triple this number around the turn of the century but never much higher (P. Bakker 1997) .
    5 KB (616 words) - 16:50, 4 February 2013
  • ...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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