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• Grammatical function (LFG)
  ...]] (Bresnan (ed.) 1982), the term '''grammatical function''' is used for [[grammatical relation]]s. Grammatical functions are ''[[subject]] of'', ''[[object]] of'', ''[[complement]] of'', ''[[head]] of'', etc., wh
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• Grammatical relation
  ...on''' is the most common term in American linguistics for notions such as 'subject', object', etc. (e.g. Marantz 1984 and the [[Relational Grammar]] literatur The term is used to refer to a link between two elements, while [[grammatical function]] refers to one of the members of a relation.
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• Promotion
  ...is what happens if an [[object]] (or [[internal argument]]) becomes the [[subject]] (or [[external argument]]) with all the usual properties of subjects due ...e syntactic status of an NP such that it becomes accessible to one or more grammatical processes which it could not otherwise undergo, for example, relativization
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• Click detection
  ...detection''' is a burst of noise that is introduced into one ear while the subject is listening to speech in the other ear. ...the position of the click in relation to the structure of the speech (e.g. grammatical structure, syllabic structure), information is gained about the way in whic
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• Subject
  The term ''subject'' has different meanings in different sciences. ...us and genus (only with a finite active verb; in passive constructions the subject does not have to agree).
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• Demotion
  '''Demotion''' is the phenomenon that a subject (or [[external argument]]) becomes an optional oblique phrase or [[adjunct] if we form the passive of ''break'' (= broken), the subject (or external argument) is demoted to become an adjunct (= the ''by''-phrase
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• No Vacuous Application Principle
  (i) -''en''<nowiki>: ]</nowiki>_V ___, [-logical subject] [-transitive] ...since they are [-transitive] (= cannot take a direct object) and [-logical subject] (= do not assign a semantic role to an external argument).
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• Passive
  ...ical object]] shows up as the [[grammatical subject]], while the [[logical subject]] is not expressed at all or shows up in an adjunct [[by-phrase]]. ...act the sum of a cluster of properties (logical object as subject, logical subject as optional adjunct, passive morphology on the verb, no Case assignment to
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• Complement (predicative)
  The term '''complement''' is sometimes used to denote the grammatical function of predicative phrases, in the same sense as [[predicate nominal]] Subject complement: ''The country became '''independent'''.''
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• Object
  The term '''object''' is sometimes used as a general term for a non-[[subject]] [[argument]]. [[Category:Grammatical relation]]
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• Path Containment Condition
  ...of [[constraint]]s on [[crossing]] and nested dependencies, such as the [[Subject condition]] and the [[ECP]]. The condition states that if two paths overlap ...ned' in the path of ''what''. Hence (ii) obeys the PCC and the sentence is grammatical. See [[Connectedness]].
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• Appositive noun phrase
  ...atra sings’ ''Cleopatra'' is ''in apposition with'' the affixal pronominal subject ''-t'' (cf. Jelinek 1984 for one influential example of this usage). The precise grammatical relation between the appositive NP and the bound pronoun has rarely been id
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• Theta-position
  ...gn a theta-role to its grammatical subject ''John''. Therefore, the matrix subject position, although an A-position, is not a theta-position.
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• Term (in relational grammar)
  ...'term''' is used for an expression bearing the [[grammatical relation]] of subject ("1"), direct object ("2"), or indirect object ("3"). Non-terms are [[obliq
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• Zero (Morphosyntax)
  :::*''"...dans tout paradigme grammatical, lorsqu'une forme dépourvue de morphème est nécessairement liée à un e :::*''"In other cases there is not even a grammatical feature: a single phonetic form, in the manner of homonymy, represents two
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• Chain
  In syntax, a '''chain''' is a set of syntactic elements subject to specific conditions. Grammatical properties, such as [[theta-role]]s and Case visibility ([[visibility condi
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• Agreement
  *Agreement of [[verb]] with [[subject]] noun phrase: ...is a [[functional projection]] of the agreeing verb, and the element (the subject) in the specifier position of the AGRP. Likewise, assignment of [[structura
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• Reduplication
  ...can be semantic (intensity, plurality, etc) or grammatical (agreement with subject, aspect, etc).
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• Lexical Functional Grammar
  the representation of [[grammatical function]]s ([[f-structure]]) ...nclude [[feature]]s such as number and tense or functional units such as [[subject]], [[predicate]], or [[object]].
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• Affixes
  ...hey are parts of the syntactic X⁰). Affixes need stems as their grammatical hosts, they necessarily cooccur with stems. ...f the X⁰. The following [[Lai Chin]] sentence consists of one [[grammatical word]] having three affixes, but phonologically, it is three words. ''Nhaa'
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• That-trace effect
  ...[[English]]). Thus, in languages showing the ''that''-t(race) effect, a [[subject]] cannot be extracted when it follows ''that''. This is shown by the contra ...e.g. [[Dutch]], as shown by the fact that the Dutch translation of (ii) is grammatical:
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• Morphological component
  ...s an integrated part of the syntactic component, which means that both are subject to the same set of principles and/or rules (e.g. Chomsky 1957, Lees 1960, B * Baker, M. 1988. ''Incorporation: A Theory of Grammatical Function Changing,'' University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
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• Radical reanalysis
  ...the [[reinterpretation]] of a [[linguistic unit]] as belonging to a new [[grammatical category]] not present in the respective grammar before. ...infinitival construction with ''to'' for non-modal verbs, the loss of the subject-verb inversion construction for non-modal verbs, and the inability of modal
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• Complement
  ...ternal argument|internal]], but not for [[external argument]]s, i.e. the [[subject]] of a given [[predicate]] is regarded as an [[argument]], but not as a com ...20th century traditional grammar. In this usage, a sentence consists of [[subject]] and [[predicate]], and the predicate consists of the [[verb]] plus the co
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• Dislocation
  ...which a referential constituent occurs in a special, intonationally and/or grammatical separate part of the clause (sometimes described as "outside the clause") ...y aunt, she died when I was six'' the noun phrase ''my aunt'' could be the subject of the clause (''My aunt died when I was six'') but is left-dislocated inst
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• Irish
  ...Union, and has official recognition in Northern Ireland. It is a required subject for most schoolchildren in the Republic of Ireland, but only a small minori ...it is not a passive in form as its [[argument]] is a direct object, not a subject.
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• Ambiguity, Polysemy and Vagueness
  ...nce of ''young'' is unclear. There are two possible interpretations of the subject. It may either be that ''[young boys] and girls love the adventure playgrou ...instances as grammatically ambiguous. The terms structural, syntactic and grammatical ambiguity are basically interchangeable.
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• Cohesion
  ...the two terms “[i]t is generally accepted […] that cohesion refers to the grammatical and lexical elements on the surface of a text which can form connections be ...all under the category of grammatical cohesion, while conjunction combines grammatical, as well as, lexical features, and lexical cohesion which is only realized
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• Clause structure in Skolt Saami
  Example without a subject: Word order in Skolt Saami is not conclusive as grammatical relations are expressed through case. Therefore word order is rather unimpo
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• Register (discourse)
  ...sociolinguistics], the term '''register''' refers to specific lexical and grammatical choices as made by speakers depending on the situational context, the parti ...Halliday 1990, 38f.) The linguistic features (specific expressions, lexico-grammatical and phonological features) and the particular values of the three dimension
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• Ergativität
  ...son(1976)''': "Most morphologically ergative languages are based on S=A (''subject'')." => Beweis anhand von syntaktischen Tests (equi-NP-deletion, subject-raising etc.)
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• S.-Y. Kuroda/publications
  1965b. Generative Grammatical Studies in the Japanese Language. PhD. Dissertation. MIT. Reprinted, Garlan 1967c. Ronri-gaku-jo no shugo. [On the subject in the logical sense.] Koroba no Uchu December. 87-96.
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• Aims and methods of quantitative linguistics
  ...th their structures assigned to them, or do we see it as a system which is subject to evolutionary processes in analogy to biological organisms, etc.) and, co ...ic constructions on their frequency and on their ambiguity, of homonymy of grammatical morphemes on their dispersion in their paradigm, the length of expressions
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• Code-switching
  As mentioned earlier, each of these models has been subject to criticism. For example, some models have been claimed not to be able to *[[Myers-Scotton, Carol]]. 1993. ''Duelling languages: Grammatical structure in codeswitching.'' Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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• Tsez
  ...or [[grammatical number|number]] and [[grammatical case|case]], and have [[grammatical gender|noun classes]] assigned to them. ...absolutive language]] which means that it makes no distinction between the subject of an intransitive sentence and the object of a transitive one — both are
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• Kopf
  *G. G. Corbett et al., Heads in Grammatical Theory. Cambridge 1993. *– Ders. & M.-K. Park, The EPP and the Subject Condition under Sluicing. LIn 2003/34, 649–660.
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• Coherence
  ...elationship between clauses and clause complexes, which are independent of grammatical structure.<br /> ...05: 21-22) points out that the textual structure can be analysed both on a grammatical and on a thematic level, i.e. with respect to the syntactic-semantic relati
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• Kaili (en)
  ...xed words out of context tend to be neutral with respect to word class and grammatical categories. ...mphasis. In passives, the agent pronoun can be cliticized to the verb, the subject of the passive can stand on either side of the verb.
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