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  • ...let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=AGR&lemmacode=1007 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics] *Belletti, A. 1991. ''Generalized Verb Movement''. Rosenberg Torino.
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  • ...words that are not major [[part of speech|parts of speech]] ([[noun]]s, [[verb]]s, [[adjective]]s) and are not [[inflection|inflected]]. ...combines with an existing verb to form what looks like a [[complex verb]]. Verb-particle combinations are quite common in [[German]], [[Dutch]], [[Polish]]
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  • ...verb]], indicating the place or object where the movement expressed by the verb starts. In ''John received a book from Mary'' Mary is the source of the movement of the book (the [[theme]]) to John (the [[goal]]).
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  • ...n [[relational grammar]] and [[Government and Binding Theory|GB]], instead of [[agent]]-like [[participant]]s. Thus unaccusatives are defined syntactical ...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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  • ...of an intransitive verb and the most patient-like argument of a transitive verb.
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  • ...I<sup>0</sup>). More recently, INFL has been reinterpreted as a conflation of two separate heads [[AGR]] (agreement) and T ([[tense]]). ...let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=INFL&lemmacode=673 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]
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  • ...ion''' is a construction typical of [[Dutch]] and [[German]] in which part of an [[infinitival complement]] appears to be [[extraposed]]. ...en extraposed in toto, but in (i)b, the so-called third construction, part of the complement (''de prijs'') is in situ.
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  • ...bject agrees with the verb in numerus and genus (only with a finite active verb; in passive constructions the subject does not have to agree). The subject usually takes the semantic role of an agent (actor).
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  • '''Valency''' (or '''valence''') refers to the argument-taking potential of [[verb]]s, and sometimes also [[adjective]]s and [[noun]]s. the verb ''open'' is associated with the semantic roles Agent, Theme, and Instrument
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  • ...h as choice of pronoun (what/who), case endings, word order, or the form a verb takes when it is associated with that noun.
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  • ...led by complementizers or other elements (most notably, the finite verb in verb-second languages). See [[complementizer (in X-bar theory)]]. *Rosenbaum, Peter S. 1967. ''The grammar of English predicate complement constructions.'' Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
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  • A '''participle''' is a [[finiteness|non-finite]] form of a [[verb]], generally with [[adjective|adjectival]] [[external syntax]] and verbal [ ...tinguishes the [[present participle]] ''writing'' in (i), the [[participle of the perfect tense]] ''written'' in (ii), and the [[passive participle]] ''w
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  • ...ansitive verb]] or [[intransitive verb]] without any morphological marking of its [[Valenzalternation|valence alternation]]. The main semantic groups of verbs which tend to be labile cross-linguistically are:
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  • ...ructions, and arguably in constructions with [[ergative verb]]s. The trace of NP-movement is an [[NP-trace]]. ...nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=NP-movement&lemmacode=512 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]
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  • ...he non-head fulfills the function of [[argument]] or [[complement]] of the verb. ...compounds. Synthetic compounds have played a major role in the development of linguistic theory, since they raise a number a questions concerning the mor
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  • A verb expressing a meteorological condition, such as ''rain'' or ''snow'', which ...nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Weather-verb&lemmacode=85 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]
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  • Inceptive verbs are [[verb]]s that denote the beginning of an action or situation.
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  • ...ocess by which an inflected form of a word is formed by changing the vowel of the [[base]]. In the narrower sense, ''Ablaut'' refers to the system of root vowel alternations in [[Proto-Indo-European]] and its daughter languag
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  • '''Suppletion''' is a phenomenon by which the addition of a semantic aspect or grammatical function is expressed by a totally or part ...uppletion. The alternation between ''France'' and ''French'' is an example of partial suppletion.
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  • ...between a semantic or formal property of one element and a formal property of another."'' (Steele 1978:610) *Agreement of [[article]] and [[adjective]] with [[noun]] in [[number]] and [[gender (mor
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