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...
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poem or other work Argument (linguistics), a phrase that appears in a syntactic relationship with the verb in a clause Oral argument in the United States...
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understood as arguments. The argument concept is tied to the predicate concept in a way that the complement concept is not. In linguistics, an adjunct is...
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In linguistics, valency or valence is the number and type of arguments and complements controlled by a predicate, content verbs being typical predicates...
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phrases, take arguments (see argument (linguistics)). Broadly, arguments can be divided into two types: internal or external. Internal arguments are those...
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Discourse analysis (redirect from Discourse (linguistics))
invented examples. Text linguistics is a closely related field. The essential difference between discourse analysis and text linguistics is that discourse analysis...
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Logic (redirect from Science of correct argument)
science, and linguistics. Logic studies arguments, which consist of a set of premises together with a conclusion. An example is the argument from the premises...
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Object (grammar) (redirect from Object (linguistics))
In linguistics, an object is any of several types of arguments. In subject-prominent, nominative-accusative languages such as English, a transitive verb...
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Subcategorization (redirect from Subcategorization (linguistics))
In linguistics, subcategorization denotes the ability/necessity for lexical items (usually verbs) to require/allow the presence and types of the syntactic...
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Autonomy of syntax (redirect from Autonomist linguistics)
In linguistics, the autonomy of syntax is the assumption that syntax is arbitrary and self-contained with respect to meaning, semantics, pragmatics, discourse...
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ambiguity in meaning. Interpretive argumentation is pertinent to the humanities, hermeneutics, literary theory, linguistics, semantics, pragmatics, semiotics...
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linguistics. Models and theoretical accounts of cognitive linguistics are considered as psychologically real, and research in cognitive linguistics aims...
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the mid-1950s, whereupon it became the dominant syntactic theory in linguistics for two decades. "Transformations" refers to syntactic relationships...
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Linguistics is the scientific study of language, involving analysis of language form, language meaning, and language in context. Language use was first...
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Subject (grammar) (redirect from Subject (linguistics))
the subject is the most prominent overt argument of the predicate. By this position all languages with arguments have subjects, though there is no way to...
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An argument map or argument diagram is a visual representation of the structure of an argument. An argument map typically includes all the key components...
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In linguistics, selection denotes the ability of predicates to determine the semantic content of their arguments. Predicates select their arguments, which...
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contain a semantic type but no argument structure, neither semantic type nor argument structure, or both semantic type and argument structure. In support of...
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Poverty of the stimulus (redirect from Argument from poverty of the stimulus)
Poverty of the stimulus (POS) is the controversial argument from linguistics that children are not exposed to rich enough data within their linguistic...
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Course in General Linguistics (French: Cours de linguistique générale) is a book compiled by Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye from notes on lectures...
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Argument mining, or argumentation mining, is a research area within the natural-language processing field. The goal of argument mining is the automatic...
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Morphosyntactic alignment (section Arguments)
In linguistics, morphosyntactic alignment is the grammatical relationship between arguments—specifically, between the two arguments (in English, subject...
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The linguistics wars were extended deputes among American theoretical linguists that occurred mostly during the 1960s and 1970s, stemming from a disagreement...
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Noam Chomsky (redirect from Noam Chomsky in linguistics)
known for his work in linguistics, political activism, and social criticism. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major...
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Innateness hypothesis (section Arguments)
the cornerstones of generative grammar and related approaches in linguistics. Arguments in favour include the poverty of the stimulus, the universality...
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Adjunct (grammar) (redirect from Adjunct (linguistics))
In linguistics, an adjunct is an optional, or structurally dispensable, part of a sentence, clause, or phrase that, if removed or discarded, will not...
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mathematics, and computer science, arity (/ˈærɪti/ ) is the number of arguments or operands taken by a function, operation or relation. In mathematics...
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Philosophy of language (redirect from History of the philosophy of linguistics)
influence has been mostly limited to computational linguistics, with little impact on general linguistics. The incompatibility with genetics and neuropsychology...
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Linguistics. August 2019. Retrieved 7 December 2020. "Computational Models of Argument conference series". www.comma-conf.org. "Journal of Argument &...
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Theta criterion (category Linguistics)
Theta-role Thematic relation Argument (linguistics) Selection Burzio's generalization Cognate object Empty category PRO (linguistics) Causative alternation...
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