a complement. In fact, this use of the term is the one that currently dominates in linguistics. A main aspect of this understanding of complements is...

gene or in different genes Complement (linguistics), a word or phrase having a particular syntactic role Subject complement, a word or phrase adding to...

In linguistics (especially generative grammar), a complementizer or complementiser (glossing abbreviation: comp) is a functional category (part of speech)...

In linguistics, anaphora (/əˈnæfərə/) is the use of an expression whose interpretation depends upon another expression in context (its antecedent). In...

extremely, and quite following the adjectives they modify. Catena Complement (linguistics) Dependency grammar Head Head-directionality parameter Phrase structure...

friend. Direct object Complement (linguistics) Object (grammar) Predicate (grammar) Predicative expression Resultative Subject complement Brinton, Laurel J...

Mouton. Antisymmetry Linguistics Natural language Syntax Constituent (linguistics) Parse tree Head (linguistics) Complement (linguistics) Phrase Syntactic...

free dictionary. Complement (linguistics) Copula Grammatical case Object (grammar) Preparatory subject Quirky subject Sentence (linguistics) Subjective (grammar)...

can consist of a single word or a complete sentence. In theoretical linguistics, phrases are often analyzed as units of syntactic structure such as a...

In linguistics, valency or valence is the number and type of arguments and complements controlled by a predicate, content verbs being typical predicates...

In linguistics, coercion is a term applied to a process of reinterpretation triggered by a mismatch between the semantic properties of a selector and...

In linguistics, an object is any of several types of arguments. In subject-prominent, nominative-accusative languages such as English, a transitive verb...

In linguistics, ellipsis (from Ancient Greek ἔλλειψις (élleipsis) 'omission') or an elliptical construction is the omission from a clause of one or more...

In linguistics, head directionality is a proposed parameter that classifies languages according to whether they are head-initial (the head of a phrase...

In grammar and theoretical linguistics, government or rection refers to the relationship between a word and its dependents. One can discern between at...

may be contrasted with more modern theories of grammar in theoretical linguistics, which grew out of traditional descriptions. While traditional grammars...

Anthropological linguistics is the subfield of linguistics and anthropology which deals with the place of language in its wider social and cultural context...

In linguistics, a copula (/ˈkɒpjələ/; pl.: copulas or copulae; abbreviated cop) is a word or phrase that links the subject of a sentence to a subject...

further expanded to include a complement, such as: "They'll never make it!" cried John to Mary. Subjects must precede the complement, otherwise the structure...

In linguistics, an argument is an expression that helps complete the meaning of a predicate, the latter referring in this context to a main verb and its...

complement) and postpositions (which follow their complement). An adposition typically combines with a noun phrase, this being called its complement,...

head verb phrase (Head: VP). The VP has a head verb is and a predicative complement NP (PredComp: NP) a tree. Information packaging constructions can result...

was a bad decision. Indefinite noun phrases are widely studied within linguistics, in particular because of their ability to take exceptional scope. A...

In linguistics, a compound is a lexeme (less precisely, a word or sign) that consists of more than one stem. Compounding, composition or nominal composition...

In historical linguistics, the wave model or wave theory (German: Wellentheorie) is a model of language change in which a new language feature (innovation)...

In linguistics (particularly sub-fields like applied linguistics and pragmatics), a hedge is a word or phrase used in a sentence to express ambiguity...

In linguistics, subordination (abbreviated variously SUBORD, SBRD, SUBR or SR) is a principle of the hierarchical organization of linguistic units. While...

in the morphosyntax-PF interface". English Linguistics 28 (2), p. 238. Lin, Tzong-Hong J. (2006), "Complement-to-specifier movement in Mandarin Chinese"...

stylistics as a distinct academic discipline to complement Saussurean linguistics. For Bally, Saussure's linguistics by itself couldn't fully describe the language...

[ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In linguistics, and particularly phonology, stress or accent is the relative emphasis...