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• Agentive verb
  '''Agentive verb''' is a verb that has an [[Agent]] as one of its [[argument]]s. ...UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Agentive+verb&lemmacode=1004 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]
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• Subject control verb
  ...of its infinitival [[complement]], the verb is called a '''subject control verb'''. ...''order'' in (i)b and ''force'' in (i)c are not (they are [[object control verb]]s).
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• Verb second
  ...If a language has verb second as a characteristic property it is called a verb second language. ...ch]] (i)a and the [[English]] (i)b shows that Dutch, but not English, is a verb second language.
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• Verb movement
  ...ad]] position, e.g. I ( [[INFL]]) and C ( [[COMP]]). In many languages the verb moves to I to pick up morphological inflection ( [[tense]] and/or [[agreeme In [[Dutch]] (i) the uninflected verb ''kus'' is moved to I, and [[adjoin]]ed to it, to pick up the affix -''t'',
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• Transitive
  '''Transitive verb''' is a [[verb]] which has to be accompanied by a direct object. An example is the English verb ''hit'' which must be accompanied by a direct object (*''he hits'' vs. ''he
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• Accusative verb
  An '''accusative verb''' is a verb that assigns structural accusative [[Case]]. ...iL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Accusative+verb&lemmacode=977 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]
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• Unergative verb
  ...ctively initiating or actively responsible for the action expressed by the verb. ...e characterized as verbs with an [[external argument]]. See [[unaccusative verb]].
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• Verb
  ...lish. They have to be paraphrased with an [[adjective]] and the [[copula]] verb ''be'' (for example ''be small''). In other languages, as for instance [[Ak ...y languages [[overt]]ly with one or more [[argument]]s. They are [[head]]s of [[verbal phrase]]s.
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• Verb raising
  ...osition]], is moved and adjoined to its governing verb, thereby creating a verb-cluster. Dutch Verb Raising creates the structure in (i)b (assuming the SOV d-structure in (i)a
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• Strong verb
  ...lomorphy]] or [[ablaut]], that is, by a change of the stem vowel, a change of the stem consonants, or both. ...nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Strong+verb&lemmacode=274 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]
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• Transitive verb
  ...'' is a verb that takes at least one object. Depending on the exact number of verbs a distinction is made between [[monotransitive]] (one object) verbs a
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• Concord
  ...h some linguists have tried to differentiated the two terms. However, none of these attempts has become widely known. ...has the corresponding verb ''to agree'', ''concord'' has no corrresponding verb.
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• Garden-path sentence
  ...ical position. Because of the frequency bias toward ''ran'' being a matrix verb rather than an [[embedded]] [[participle]], which is a rare structure, the ...s not the matrix verb, else be able to backtrack. However, the infrequency of embedded participles makes this construction very difficult to recognize, t
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• Subcategorization
  ...words is expressed. Subcategorization of heads (in particular V) in terms of the phrasal categories (NP, PP, etc.) which they select as a [[complement]] ...ubcategory of transitive verbs. The object subcategorizes the verb, or the verb is subcategorized by the object.
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• Valency-changing operation
  ...d/or morphological [[operation]] due to which the relationship between a [[verb]] and its [[argument]]s is changed. ...operation of [[passive]] formation, the internal argument of [[transitive verb]]s in the [[active voice]] gets externalized, while the external argument b
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• VP raising
  ...is the [[movement]] of an infinitival [[VP]] to the right of its governing verb. This syntactic operation occurs in many [[German]] and [[Dutch]] (Flemish) ...om [[extraposition]], because it is triggered by verbs that also trigger [[Verb raising]], and because it induces [[IPP]].
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• Subcategorization frame
  '''Subcategorization frame''' is a formalization of the notion of [[subcategorization]]. ...gorization]] frame of the verb ''hit''. It says that the pseudo-transitive verb ''hit'' optionally (indicated by the parentheses) selects an NP-complement
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• AUX
  ...a name of what is now usually labeled [[INFL]]. Also short for [[auxiliary verb]]. ...let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=AUX&lemmacode=1052 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]
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• Specifier
  ...is the position which is directly dominated by the [[maximal projection]] of X: [_XP specifier X]. ...[[D-structure]] position of the verb's external argument. In many analyses of [[movement]] (see [[bounding theory]]), the specifier position plays an imp
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• Root clause
  ...] languages root clauses differ from embedded clauses in that the finite [[verb]] is in second position. ...nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Root+clause&lemmacode=357 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]
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• AGR
  ...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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• Particle
  ...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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• Source
  ...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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• Unaccusative verb
  ...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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• Absolutive case
  ...of an intransitive verb and the most patient-like argument of a transitive verb.
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• INFL
  ...I⁰). 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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• Third construction
  ...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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• Subject
  ...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
  '''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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• Animacy
  ...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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• Complementizer
  ...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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• Participle
  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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• Ambitransitive verb
  ...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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• NP-movement
  ...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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• Synthetic compound
  ...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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• Weather verb
  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
  Inceptive verbs are [[verb]]s that denote the beginning of an action or situation.
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• Ablaut
  ...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
  '''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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• Agreement
  ...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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• 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
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• Mixed category
  properties of two distinct categories, such as noun and verb, while being headed by a single word.
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• Subordinator
  ...In addition, subordinators often give information about the semantic kind of subordination ([[complement clause]], [[relative clause]], [[adverbial clau ...languages with rich morphology have subordinators that are affixes on the verb.
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• Result nominal
  ...' is a [[nominal]] which denotes the result of the action denoted by the [[verb]] it is [[derivation|derived]] from. In (i)a ''the collection'' refers to an entity which is the result of collecting things.
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• Inchoative
  ...ome dead) or ''break''. The term is also used in explicating the ambiguity of ''John will eat his lunch in an hour'': the inchoative reading is the one i ....nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Inchoative&lemmacode=660 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]
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• 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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• Predicate-argument structure
  ...[[theta-grid]] is decoded, and as such is part of the syntactic structure of verbs. One way to represent the predicate-argument structure (PAS) of the causative verb ''break'' is (i).
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• Tail-head linkage
  ...sts in repeating, at the beginning of a new sentence, the main verbal root of the preceding sentence for discourse cohesion. ...recipes, rituals, etc.), usually it needs to occur in more different types of text in order to be classified as THL.
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• Resultative
  [[Verb]]s which denote an activity may be combined with a [[predicate]] to render (ii) They talked [him ''out of it'']
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• Word Structure Autonomy Condition
  ...a syntactic analysis of inflection, such as (a) the Affix Hopping analysis of English inflection (Chomsky 1957), (b) [[head movement]] analyses (Pollock ...ek.pl?lemma=Word+Structure+Autonomy+Condition&lemmacode=99 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]
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