Grammatical Man: Information, Entropy, Language, and Life is a 1982 book written by Jeremy Campbell, then Washington correspondent for the Evening Standard...
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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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Grammaticalization (also known as grammatization or grammaticization) is a linguistic process in which words change from representing objects or actions...
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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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Grammatical evolution (GE) is a genetic programming (GP) technique (or approach) from evolutionary computation pioneered by Conor Ryan, JJ Collins and...
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Voice (grammar) (redirect from Grammatical voice)
passive-voice construction, the subject and the direct object switch grammatical roles. The direct object gets promoted to subject, and the subject demoted...
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understood as a category that expresses (grammaticalizes) time reference; namely one which, using grammatical means, places a state or action in time....
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Decoding the Universe, Viking, 2006. ISBN 0-670-03441-X Jeremy Campbell, Grammatical Man, Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 1982, ISBN 0-671-44062-4 Henri Theil...
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likely in languages with free word order, and often agreement between the grammatical gender, number or other feature of the modifier and its head is used...
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and modal. Structural particles are used for grammatical relations. Aspectual particles signal grammatical aspects. Modal particles express linguistic...
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Object (grammar) (redirect from Grammatic object)
oblique arguments, thus including other arguments not covered by core grammatical roles, such as those governed by case morphology (as in languages such...
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Definiteness (redirect from Grammatical state)
changing the noun itself (e.g. Danish en mand (a man), manden (the man)). There are times when a grammatically marked definite noun phrase is not in fact identifiable...
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Gender neutrality in languages with gendered third-person pronouns (category Grammatical gender)
have them as part of a grammatical gender system, a system of agreement where most or all nouns have a value for this grammatical category. A few languages...
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Article (grammar) (redirect from Grammatical article)
Articles typically specify the grammatical definiteness of the noun phrase, but in many languages, they carry additional grammatical information such as gender...
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Dual (abbreviated DU) is a grammatical number that some languages use in addition to singular and plural. When a noun or pronoun appears in dual form...
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addition to the generally accepted taxonomic name Homo sapiens (Latin: 'wise man', Linnaeus 1758), other Latin-based names for the human species have been...
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In Spanish, grammatical gender is a linguistic feature that affects different types of words and how they agree with each other. It applies to nouns,...
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Gender in English (redirect from Grammatical gender in English)
A system of grammatical gender, whereby every noun was treated as either masculine, feminine, or neuter, existed in Old English, but fell out of use during...
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Agreement (linguistics) (redirect from Grammatical agreement)
instance of inflection, and usually involves making the value of some grammatical category (such as gender or person) "agree" between varied words or parts...
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and the Pendulum, Wiley, 2000. ISBN 0-471-32174-5 Jeremy Campbell, Grammatical Man, Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 1982, ISBN 0-671-44062-4 Henri Theil...
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Gender neutrality in genderless languages (redirect from Gender-neutrality in languages without grammatical gender)
language is a natural or constructed language that has no distinctions of grammatical gender—that is, no categories requiring morphological agreement between...
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in languages with grammatical gender is the usage of wording that is balanced in its treatment of the genders in a non-grammatical sense. For example...
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In linguistics, morphosyntactic alignment is the grammatical relationship between arguments—specifically, between the two arguments (in English, subject...
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In linguistics, the grammatical patient, also called the target or undergoer, is a semantic role representing the participant of a situation upon whom...
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Inflection (redirect from Grammatical inflection)
process of word formation in which a word is modified to express different grammatical categories such as tense, case, voice, aspect, person, number, gender...
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Language (section Grammatical categories)
Functional theories of grammar explain grammatical structures by their communicative functions, and understand the grammatical structures of language to be the...
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changed due to marriage. The term né, having masculine grammatical gender, can be used to denote a man's surname at birth which has subsequently been replaced...
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verbs, verb phrases and verb-related structures, manifesting in two grammatical aspects: perfective and imperfective (in contrast with English verb grammar...
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Affirmation and negation (redirect from Grammatical polarity)
that it is not true that Joe is currently located near the speaker. The grammatical category associated with affirmatives and negatives is called polarity...
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