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...

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...

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...

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

phrases, take arguments (see argument (linguistics)). Broadly, arguments can be divided into two types: internal or external. Internal arguments are those...

invented examples. Text linguistics is a closely related field. The essential difference between discourse analysis and text linguistics is that discourse analysis...

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...

In linguistics, subcategorization denotes the ability/necessity for lexical items (usually verbs) to require/allow the presence and types of the syntactic...

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

linguistics. Models and theoretical accounts of cognitive linguistics are considered as psychologically real, and research in cognitive linguistics aims...

In linguistics, the autonomy of syntax is the assumption that syntax is arbitrary and self-contained with respect to meaning, semantics, pragmatics, discourse...

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

ambiguity in meaning. Interpretive argumentation is pertinent to the humanities, hermeneutics, literary theory, linguistics, semantics, pragmatics, semiotics...

contain a semantic type but no argument structure, neither semantic type nor argument structure, or both semantic type and argument structure. In support of...

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...

Linguistics is the scientific study of language, involving analysis of language form, language meaning, and language in context. Language use was first...

Poverty of the stimulus (POS) is the controversial argument from linguistics that children are not exposed to rich enough data within their linguistic...

the mid-1950s, whereupon it became the dominant syntactic theory in linguistics for two decades. "Transformations" refers to syntactic relationships...

Course in General Linguistics (French: Cours de linguistique générale) is a book compiled by Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye from notes on lectures...

grammar, or generativism /ˈdʒɛnərətɪvɪzəm/, is a theoretical approach in linguistics that regards grammar as a domain-specific system of rules that generates...

the cornerstones of generative grammar and related approaches in linguistics. Arguments in favour include the poverty of the stimulus, the universality...

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...

In linguistics, an adjunct is an optional, or structurally dispensable, part of a sentence, clause, or phrase that, if removed or discarded, will not...

mathematics, and computer science, arity (/ˈærɪti/ ) is the number of arguments or operands taken by a function, operation or relation. In mathematics...

intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics with strong ties to etymology. Philology is also defined as the study...

Argument mining, or argumentation mining, is a research area within the natural-language processing field. The goal of argument mining is the automatic...

semantic alignment) is a type of morphosyntactic alignment in which the sole argument ("subject") of an intransitive clause (often symbolized as S) is sometimes...

to be an argument of the predicate. In generative grammar, a theta role or θ-role is the formal device for representing syntactic argument structure—the...

Keyser, Samuel Jay (1993). "On Argument Structures and the Lexical expression of syntactic relations". Essays in Linguistics in Honor of Sylvain Bromberger...

Blažek, Václav (2002). "The 'beech'-argument — State-of-the-Art". Historische Sprachforschung / Historical Linguistics. 115 (2): 190–217. JSTOR 41289089...