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affirmation and negation
terms of opposite meaning which may be applied to statements, verb phrases, clauses, or other utterances
conditional sentence
sentence expressing factual implications, or a hypothetical situation and its consequences
case grammar
system of linguistic analysis, focusing on the link between the valence, or number of subjects, objects, etc., of a verb and the grammatical context it requires

adpositional phrase
phrase the head of which is an adposition

phono-semantic matching
linguistic borrowing in which the sound and meaning of a foreign word are adjusted to match existing phonetic and semantic elements in the target language
possessive determiner
determiner which modifies a noun by attributing possession
adverbial clause
term in grammar
danda
In Indic scripts, the daṇḍa (Sanskrit: दण्ड '''' "stick") is a punctuation mark. The grapheme consists of a single vertical stroke.
case government
in grammar, the relationship between a verb or adposition and the case of its noun complement
sequence of tenses
set of grammatical rules of a particular language, governing the agreement between the tenses of verbs in related clauses or sentences

cognate object
A verbal argument that is semantically unnecessary
functional discourse grammar
model of grammar motivated by functions, originally developed by Simon C. Dik
Modistae
The Modistae (Latin for Modists), also known as the speculative grammarians, were the members of a school of grammarian philosophy known as Modism or speculative grammar, active in northern France, Germany, England, and Denmark in the 13th and 14th centuries. Their influence was felt much less in the southern part of Europe, where the somewhat opposing tradition of the so-called "pedagogical grammar" never lost its preponderance.
holophrasis
In the study of language acquisition, holophrasis is the prelinguistic use of a single word to express a complex idea. A holophrase may resemble an interjection, but whereas an interjection is linguistic, and has a specific grammatical function, a holophrase is simply a vocalization memorized by rote and used without grammatical intent.
semantic role labeling
Process in natural language processing
yes–no question
type of close-ended question about the truth or falsity of a proposition
Epiphrase
thumb|"No, I swear, I'm not telling you this to flatter you, you have a true friend like no other. I will tell you that if you don't know it, you are the only one. Mme Verdurin was telling me this again on the last day ()", Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann.
traditional grammar
framework for the description of the structure of a language
principal parts
grammar concept denoting roots of verbs
Montague grammar
approach to natural language semantics
content clause
clause elaborated by a main clause
reciprocal pronoun
pronoun that shows reciprocal relationships; e.g. "each other" in "they saw each other"
production
in computer science, a rewrite rule specifying a substitution that can be recursively performed to generate new sequences
grammar induction
machine learning process
open-ended question
type of question
language level
quality level of a text, discourse or corpora
Feature structure
Bible citation
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time–manner–place
In linguistic typology, time–manner–place is a sentence structure that defines the order of adpositional phrases and adverbs in a sentence: "yesterday", "by car", "to the store". Japanese, Afrikaans, Dutch, Mandarin, and German use this structure.
attraction
error in language production, incorrectly extending a feature from a word in a sentence to another; e.g. errors such as “the key to the cabinets were missing” occur because plurality is marked as a feature, attracting the plural verb form activation
possession
asymmetric relationship between two constituents in the context of linguistics
preverb
Although not used in general linguistic theory, the term preverb is used in Caucasian (including all three families: Northwest Caucasian, Northeast Caucasian and Kartvelian), Caddoan, Athabaskan, and Algonquian linguistics to describe certain elements prefixed to verbs. In the context of Indo-European languages, the term is usually used for separable verb prefixes.
formal semantics
study of meaning in natural languages
final clause
dependent adverbial clause expressing purpose
Periodic sentence
Type of sentence style
boundedness
semantic feature that relates to an understanding of the referential limits of a lexical item
singular term
polypersonal agreement
grammar in which a verb agrees with multiple arguments (subject, direct object, indirect object, etc.)
projection principle
in generative grammar, the principle that representations at each syntax level (MF, D, S) are “projected” from the lexicon (follow the subcategorization of lexemes)
inalienable possession
in linguistics, a type of possession in which a noun is obligatorily possessed by a possessor; e.g. “hand” or “mother” implies someone’s hand or mother; in English, “father of Mary” is acceptable (because inalienable), but “squirrel of Mary” is not
immediate constituent analysis
Theory in linguistics
Tamil grammar
overall description of structure of Tamil language
parallelism
balance within one or more sentences of similar phrases or clauses that have the same grammatical structure
absolute construction
grammatical construction used in certain languages
performative contradiction
in logic, a situation when the making of an utterance rests on necessary presuppositions that contradict the proposition asserted in the utterance