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• Metalanguage
  ...that is used to talk about (expressions of) another language, the [[object language]]. ...on. If we cannot detect any metalanguage in a sentence, there is no object language either. The distinction was introduced to avoid the [[liar's paradox]].
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• Liar's paradox
  ...en [[object language]] (the language as object) and [[meta language]] (the language as medium). * Gamut, L.T.F. 1991. ''Logic, language, and meaning,'' Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago.
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• Double object construction
  '''Double object construction''' is a construction containing two objects, as in (i). ...ber of languages (including English), [[adjacency]] is required between an object and the verb that Case-marks it. If both objects are on the right of the ve
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• Object plus infinitive
  ...ative and infinitive]] constructions but also dative (or any other kind of object) plus infinitive. ...Publishing Company, Amsterdam/Philadelphia. Series: Typological Studies in Language (TSL), Givón, T. et al. (eds.)
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• Meta-variable
  ...be used to refer to arbitrary [[object language]] expressions in a logical language. In (i), phi is a metavariable standing for any formula of the logical language L.
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• Language (in neurocognitive linguistics)
  In [[neurocognitive linguistics]], '''language''' is the system used by people for their [[linguistic activity]], ''i.e.,' ...t is something different. Should we assume that because we have the word "language", there must be such things as languages?
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• Language documentation
  ...[corpus]] of [[raw data]] and [[primary data]] of a little-known language. Language documentation became a major concern of linguistics only in the 1990s as a Language documentation is sometimes said to be the object of the new linguistic subfield of [[documentary linguistics]] (Himmelmann 1
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• Dative transformation
  ...ct-object construction]] (''The girl gave milk to the cat'') to a [[double-object construction]] (''The girl gave the cat milk''), especially in English. *Dryer, Matthew S. 1986. Primary objects, secondary objects and antidative. ''Language'' 62.4: 808-845.
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• Dative alternation
  ...t-object construction]] (''The girl gave milk to the cat'') and a [[double-object construction]] (''The girl gave the cat milk''), especially in English. The indirect object structure is also referred to as NP PP structure as it consists of a nounph
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• Speech-act participant
  Certain subsystems of a language’s grammar are sensitive to speech-act participants. (They do not distingu ...[Sahaptin]], the [[ergative case]] appears on 3rd person nouns only if the object is a speech-act participant (Rude 1997):
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• Of-insertion
  ...sertion of the [[preposition]] ''of'' in order to [[case]]-mark a [[NP]] [[object]] of a [[noun]]: * Chomsky, N. 1986a. ''Knowledge of language: its nature, origin and use,'' Praeger, New York.
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• Psych-movement
  ...t''' is a rule which is similar to [[passive]], in that it [[move]]s the [[object]] of a [[psych-verb]] into [[subject]] position, while the former subject a * Beletti, A. & L. Rizzi 1988. ''Psych-Verbs and Theta-Theory,'' Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 6, 291-352, .
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• Typological consistency
  In the standard work on typological consistency two basic types of language are distinguished, those where (direct) objects precede the verb (OV), and ...ges depending on whether the verb precedes the (direct) object (VO) or the object precedes the verb (OV).
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• Complement (predicative)
  Object complement: ''Most people considered Picasso '''a genius'''.'' ...frey]] & [[Svartvik, Jan]]. 1985. ''A comprehensive grammar of the English language.'' London: Longman.
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• Lexical Functional Grammar
  LFG views language as being made up of multiple dimensions of structure. Each of these dimensi ...ber and tense or functional units such as [[subject]], [[predicate]], or [[object]].
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• Passive
  '''Passive''' is a construction in which the [[logical object]] shows up as the [[grammatical subject]], while the [[logical subject]] is ...ptional adjunct, passive morphology on the verb, no Case assignment to the object possible, etc.), all of which can be separately present or absent in a give
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• Ergative pattern
  ...[[affix]] is used to mark the subject of intransitive verbs as well as the object of transitive verbs, while another [[case marker]] or [[affix]] is used for The following examples from the paleosiberian language Chukchee are taken from Spencer (1991:24):
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• Cumulative reference
  ...s: a lattice-theoretical approach. In ''Meaning, use and interpretation of language.'' Bauerle, R., Schwarze, C. & von Stechow, A. (eds.), 302-323. Berlin: De *Quine, W. 1960. ''Word and object.''Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.
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• Incorporation
  ...while retaining its original syntactic function. Chukchee, a paleosiberian language spoken in North Eastern Siberia, provides a wealth of examples. The constru
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• Inherent case
  ...EXAMPLE: in German the verb ''helfen'' (to help) assigns Dative to its NP object, instead of (structural) Accusative. * Chomsky, N. 1986a. ''Knowledge of language: its nature, origin and use,'' Praeger, New York.
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