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• Clause union
  ...one simplex clause by eliminating the [[clause]] structure of the embedded clause. [http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Clause+union&lemmacode=870 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]
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• Noun clause
  ...argument]], so that ''noun clause'' is basically a synonym of [[complement clause]]. This term seems to be older than ''complement clause''. It appears to be found primarily in descriptive works.
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• Contact clause
  ...ct clause''' is sometimes used (following Jespersen 1933) for a [[relative clause]] with no [[relativizer]]. ...hat characterizes them is the close contact in sound and sense between the clause and what precedes it: in sentences like "this is the boy we spoke of", and
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• Appositive relative clause
  ...clause''' is sometimes used in the same sense as [[nonrestrictive relative clause]]. ...Catholic priest, lives in Lima.'' (Contrasting with a restrictive relative clause, e.g. ''The woman who wants to become an Anglican priest'' is my cousin.)
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• Cleft
  ...e]] having the form ''It'' be X, and by turning the rest into a [[relative clause]]. Two cleft versions of (i) are given in (ii): ===Reference===
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• Verb serialization
  ...zation''' is a construction with several verbs or verb phrases in a single clause. ===Reference===
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• Main clause
  ...e]] is the remainder of the [[superordinate clause]] after the subordinate clause has been removed. ...use of the relative clause is ''I often remember the boy'', while the main clause of ''when we lived in India'' is ''that I went to school with''.
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• Circumstant
  ...959) terminology, a '''circumstant''' is an optional [[modifier]] of the [[clause]] (expressing [[circumstantial relation]]s), as opposed to the [[actant]]s, ===Reference===
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• Core
  ...core argument|argument]]s. The core is opposed to the [[periphery]] of the clause.
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• Periphery
  ...rammar]]'s clause structure representation (the [[layered structure of the clause]]), the '''periphery''' is the part that does not belong to the core, i.e.
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• Left-detachment
  ...ion in which the deatched constitutent occurs at the left periphery of the clause. ===Reference===
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• Completive aspect
  The term ''completive'' is occasionally also used for [[complement clause]]s; see [[completive]] (disambiguation page). ===Reference===
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• Wackernagel clitic
  ...el clitic''' is a [[clitic]] that occurs in the [[second position]] in the clause. ===Reference===
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• Conjunction
  ...and syntax, '''conjunction''' is the combination of two [[sentence]]s or [[clause]]s with 'and'. ===Reference===
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• Relative clause
  A '''relative clause''' is a [[clause]] that is used to narrow the [[reference]] of a [[referential phrase]] and in which the referent of the phrase plays ...ch I can't afford e'', and ''which'' is the relative pronoun. The relative clause always contains a gap - ''e'' - which is the [[trace]] of the relative pron
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• Direct object
  ...tient]]-like argument (the [[P-argument]]) of an [[active]] [[transitive]] clause. ...is generally used for a [[recipient]]-like argument of a [[ditransitive]] clause.
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• Core argument (in RRG)
  ...eference Grammar]], a '''core argument''' is simply an [[argument]] of the clause, i.e. an element that is required by the verb's [[valency]]. In earlier versions of Role and Reference Grammar, there was also a notion of [[peripheral argument]] (Foley & Van Va
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• Relational noun
  ===Reference=== *Aissen, Judith L. 1987. ''Tzotzil clause structure.'' Dordrecht: Reidel.
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• Restrictive relative clause
  A '''restrictive relative clause''' is a [[relative clause]] that [[restrict]]s the meaning of the [[head noun]]. It is used to restr ...Thus in ''this book, which John gave to me'', the non-restrictive relative clause does not restrict the set of books. The difference between a restrictive an
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• Appositive noun phrase
  ...]] that is coreferential with a [[bound pronoun]] and occurs in the same [[clause]], but is not considered to occupy an [[argument position]]. The argument p *[[appositive relative clause]]
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• Actant
  ...y, actants are opposed to [[circumstant]]s, i.e. optional modifiers of the clause. ===Reference===
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• Functional Discourse Grammar
  ...g more suitable for the analysis of phenomena that exceed the level of the clause than its predecessor, while retaining most of its merits, Functional Discou ===Reference===
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• Apposition
  * ‘non-restrictive modification’, especially in [[appositive relative clause]] === Reference ===
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• Structural-functional theory of language
  ...g emphasis on structural analysis with the generative paradigm. [[Role and Reference Grammar]], [[Systemic Functional Grammar]] and [[Functional Grammar]] are a ...ee major structural-functional theories. Part 1: Approaches to the simplex clause.'' Studies in language companion series 63. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
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• Complementizer
  ...mentizer''' is used to denote a [[subordinator]] that marks a [[complement clause]]. === Reference ===
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• Dislocation
  ...ammatical separate part of the clause (sometimes described as "outside the clause") ...predicate-argument structure occurs instead outside the boundaries of the clause containing the predicate, either to its left (left-dislocation, henceforth
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• Donkey anaphora
  ...wever, coreference cannot obtain since ''a donkey'' does not have a single reference that might be shared by it, since ''a donkey'' is in the scope of the unive ...y (Kamp 1981, Heim 1982). Other well-known donkey-contexts are conditional clause type examples (iii)a and the relatively under-researched VP-conjunction exa
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• Future tense
  ...meanings, bound morphemes are also found as primary markers of future time reference. Those markers represent an advanced stage of grammaticalization (Dahl 2000 ...are preferred for prediction-based rather than intention-based future time reference. Balkan languages prefer constructions based on the meanings 'want' and 'ha
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• Cohesion
  ...ingful unit, is called cohesion and can be subdivided into the categories: reference, substitution, ellipsis, conjunction and lexical cohesion. “Each of these ...the five types can be grouped into grammatical and lexical cohesion, i.e. reference, substitution, and ellipsis, fall under the category of grammatical cohesio
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• Coherence
  ...ion', and cohesion refers to the external relationship between clauses and clause complexes, which are independent of grammatical structure.<br /> ...elated events specifying and explaining each other. Although the anaphoric reference pronoun in (3) is a cohesive link, it does not help the reader establish an
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• Tenses of English
  In specific contexts (e. g. future time reference), the choice of lexical or grammatical future tense marking is obligatory ( If a clause contains an adverbial which specifies the situation time, as in ''She hasn'
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• Situation
  ...generally expressed by [[noun phrase]]s, and situations are expressed by [[clause]]s. Often the term ''situation'' is also used to refer to just the verb's m ...ypically combines with static situations when it is used with present time reference, and only rarely with dynamic ones.
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