types of zero-marking in English involve zero articles, zero relative pronouns, and zero subordinating conjunctions. Examples are I like cats in which the...
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constituents of a phrase. Pervasive zero marking is very rare, but instances of zero marking in various forms occur in quite a number of languages. Vietnamese...
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consonant Silent letter Zero-marking in English Zero-marking language What is a zero morph? @ SIL International Discourse-Cohesive Devices in Language Acquisition:...
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clause is. English has few inflectional markers of agreement and so can be construed as zero-marking much of the time. Dependent-marking, however, occurs...
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A zero marker is a null morpheme being used as linguistic marker, see: Zero (linguistics) Zero-marking language Zero-marking in English Zero marker is...
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Dependent-marking language Double-marking language Head Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time Linguistic typology Phrase Verb phrase Zero-marking language...
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Zero copula, also known as null copula, is a linguistic phenomenon whereby the subject is joined to the predicate without overt marking of this relationship...
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cases in which some grammatical marking can be observed, nevertheless coming to varying definitions. In particular, The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language...
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0 (redirect from Zero function)
by the Maya. Common names for the number 0 in English include zero, nought, naught (/nɔːt/), and nil. In contexts where at least one adjacent digit distinguishes...
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Marker (linguistics) (category Articles lacking in-text citations from January 2017)
Dependent-marking language Head-marking language Double-marking language Zero-marking language Maddieson, Ian. "Locus of Marking: Whole-Language Typology", in Martin...
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is used in the zero-conditional condition clause (as in "If the prisoner be held for more than five days, ...). For more details see English subjunctive...
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endings) but not in possessive phrases (only the dependent was marked). Dependent-marking language Head-marking language Zero-marking language Nichols...
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subordinate. The subordinators form a closed lexical category in English and include whether; and, in some of their uses, if, that, for, arguably to, and marginally...
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seen in cases like the temperature is zero degrees (not *zero degree) and 0.5 children per woman (not *0.5 child per woman). The plural morpheme in English...
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Null morpheme (redirect from Zero morpheme)
In morphology, a null morpheme or zero morpheme is a morpheme that has no phonetic form. In simpler terms, a null morpheme is an "invisible" affix. It...
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Kilometre zero (or km 0), also known as zero mile marker or zero milepost, is a particular location (usually in the nation's capital city) from which...
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or clauses with equal syntactic importance. The primary coordinators in English are and, but, or, and nor. Syntactically, they appear between the elements...
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Prime meridian (Greenwich) (category English inventions)
show that the marking strip for the prime meridian at Greenwich is not exactly at zero longitude (zero degrees, zero minutes, and zero seconds) but at...
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In English language teaching, conditional sentences are classified according to type as first, second or third conditional; there also exist "zero conditional"...
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Generic you (category English usage controversies)
without a pronoun and in the third person (zero person) or in the passive ("fourth person"), somewhat similar to one in English. The second person is...
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typology Synthetic language Zero-marking language "A Computerized Identification System for Verb Sorting and Arrangement in a Natural Language: Case Study...
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Hypocenter (redirect from Ground zero)
ground zero or surface zero, is the point on the Earth's surface directly below a nuclear explosion, meteor air burst, or other mid-air explosion. In seismology...
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Active–stative alignment (category Articles lacking in-text citations from June 2019)
indicated by zero-inflection, it is often the patientive. Additionally, active languages differ from ergative languages in how split case marking intersects...
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Nominative–accusative alignment (section Case marking)
verb. English has nominative–accusative alignment in its case marking of personal pronouns: the single argument (S) of an intransitive verb ("I" in the...
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The (category English grammar)
Look up the in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under...
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forming words in a similar manner: araba (car) + lar (plural) + ın (possessive suffix, performing the same function as "of" in English) + a (dative suffix...
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article below. For more cases where no article is used, see Zero article in English. In most cases, the article is the first word of its noun phrase...
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fusional languages tend to lose their case marking. In most Romance and Germanic languages, including Modern English (with the notable exceptions of German...
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Synthetic language (category Pages with errors in interlinear text)
number, and evidential marking. Bulgarian is a fusional inflecting language with some analyticity (including prepositions in the nominal morphology,...
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Morphosyntactic alignment (section Locus of marking)
In linguistics, morphosyntactic alignment is the grammatical relationship between arguments—specifically, between the two arguments (in English, subject...
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