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...

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

In linguistics, branching refers to the shape of the parse trees that represent the structure of sentences. Assuming that the language is being written...

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)...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

pronoun Object pronoun Subject complement Subject (grammar) Peter Matthews, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics (Oxford University Press, 1997)...

Lucien Tesnière. Tesnière was a Frenchman, a polyglot, and a professor of linguistics at the universities in Strasbourg and Montpellier. His major work Éléments...

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...

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, selection denotes the ability of predicates to determine the semantic content of their arguments. Predicates select their arguments, which...

Balancing and deranking Dependent clause Phrase Relative clause Sentence (linguistics) T-unit Thematic equative "Clause". 10 February 2017. For a definition...

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...

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

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...

linking verb, e.g. be, seem, appear, or that appears as a second complement (object complement) of a certain type of verb, e.g. call, make, name, etc. The...

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

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