Syntax–semantics interface

in semantics, thematic relation that refers to the cause or initiator (often intentional) of an event

Animacy (antonym: inanimacy) is a grammatical and semantic feature, existing in some languages, expressing how sentient or alive the referent of a noun is. Widely expressed, animacy is one of the most elementary principles in languages around the globe and is a distinction acquired as early as six months of age.

grammar: participant of a situation upon whom an action is carried out

sentence coined by Noam Chomsky to describe proper syntax with improper semantics

subfield of linguistic semantics

characteristic of the meaning of verbs

noun or noun phrase whose quantity is discrete (integer amount) and can have separate singular and plural forms in many languages

noun or noun phrase whose quantity is indiscrete and has no innate singularity or plurality.

type of morphosyntactic alignment in linguistics

classifications that denote whether a term describes an object with a physical referent or one with no physical referents

In linguistics, telicity (; from Greek τέλος "end, goal") is the property of a verb or verb phrase that presents an action or event as having a specific endpoint. A verb or verb phrase with this property is said to be telic; if the situation it describes is not heading for any particular endpoint, it is said to be atelic.

verb that describes a state of being

principle in linguistics about meaning

linguistic phenomenon in which anaphoric elements such as pronouns are grammatically associated with their antecedents

syntactic function of words in a sentence