In linguistics, a grammatical construction is any syntactic string of words ranging from sentences over phrasal structures to certain complex lexemes,...
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as in general semiotics, the grammatical construction is a pairing of form and content. The formal aspect of a construction is typically described as a...
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... Not! is a grammatical construction in the English language used as a function word to make negative a group of words or a word. It became a sardonic...
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Grammar (redirect from Grammatically)
simply a grammar. A fully revealed grammar, which describes the grammatical constructions of a particular speech type in great detail is called descriptive...
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The serial verb construction, also known as (verb) serialization or verb stacking, is a syntactic phenomenon in which two or more verbs or verb phrases...
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Going-to future (category Grammatical aspects)
The going-to future is a grammatical construction used in English to refer to various types of future occurrences. It is made using appropriate forms of...
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Passive voice (category Grammatical construction types)
passive voice construction is a grammatical voice construction that is found in many languages. In a clause with passive voice, the grammatical subject expresses...
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In linguistics, an absolute construction is a grammatical construction standing apart from a normal or usual syntactical relation with other words or sentence...
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define grammaticalization in terms of the change whereby lexical items and constructions come in certain linguistic contexts to serve grammatical functions...
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Possession (linguistics) (redirect from Grammatical possession)
possessed. That means basically that in such languages, saying my sister is grammatically correct but not my land. Instead, one would have to use a circumlocution...
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Nominative case (category Grammatical construction types)
NOM), subjective case, straight case, or upright case is one of the grammatical cases of a noun or other part of speech, which generally marks the subject...
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In linguistics, grammaticality is determined by the conformity to language usage as derived by the grammar of a particular speech variety. The notion of...
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Antipassive voice (category Grammatical construction types)
AP) is a type of grammatical voice that either does not include the object or includes the object in an oblique case. This construction is similar to the...
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In linguistics, aspect is a grammatical category that expresses how a verbal action, event, or state, extends over time. For instance, perfective aspect...
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In grammar, a genitive construction or genitival construction is a type of grammatical construction used to express a relation between two nouns such as...
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Split infinitive (section History of the construction)
A split infinitive is a grammatical construction specific to English in which an adverb or adverbial phrase separates the "to" and "infinitive" constituents...
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Endocentric and exocentric (redirect from Endocentric construction)
distinction is made between endocentric and exocentric constructions. A grammatical construction (for instance, a phrase or compound) is said to be endocentric...
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negation of a related statement that usually precedes ... Not!, a grammatical construction used as a contradiction, popularized in the early 1990s Negation...
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Applicative voice (category Grammatical construction types)
The applicative voice (/əˈplɪkətɪv/; abbreviated APL or APPL) is a grammatical voice that promotes an oblique argument of a verb to the core object argument...
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assembly: (A list of) algebraic constructions Compass and straightedge constructions in geometry Grammatical construction, meaning-bearing relationship...
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In linguistics, a grammatical gender system is a specific form of a noun class system, where nouns are assigned to gender categories that are often not...
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In linguistics, grammatical mood is a grammatical feature of verbs, used for signaling modality.: 181 That is, it is the use of verbal inflections that...
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A grammatical case is a category of nouns and noun modifiers (determiners, adjectives, participles, and numerals) that corresponds to one or more potential...
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In linguistics, grammatical number is a feature of nouns, pronouns, adjectives and verb agreement that expresses count distinctions (such as "one", "two"...
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antipassive construction) The man bought a ring. (one object) The man bought his wife a ring. (two objects) In grammatical construction theories, transitivity...
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Inalienable possession (category Grammatical construction types)
language making a grammatical distinction between different types of possession. In a language with possession split, grammatical constructions with alienable...
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Adpositional phrase (category Grammatical construction types)
verb. Prepositions cannot perform such shifting, i.e., they cannot grammatically switch positions with their complement, e.g. He is relying on Susan...
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Noun phrase (category Grammatical construction types)
phrase that usually has a noun or pronoun as its head, and has the same grammatical functions as a noun. Noun phrases are very common cross-linguistically...
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Apposition is a grammatical construction in which two elements, normally noun phrases, are placed side by side so one element identifies the other in a...
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Genitive case (category Grammatical cases)
state. Possessive grammatical constructions, including the possessive case, may be regarded as subsets of the genitive construction. For example, the...
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