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  • ...we know something is true. Some languages grammaticise evidentiality (mark it in their verb system). ''al-ypdyr'' 's/he took (but I didn't see it)';
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  • '''Referential opacity''' is a property of [[word]]s which entails that it is impossible to 'see inside' them, and refer to their parts by using an [[ ...gh the anaphoric relation that is possible in ''he took the tea and poured it into the cup''. Referential opacity is closely related to the property of [
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  • ...an help Glottopedia by [{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|action=edit}} expanding it]. ''</span> <noinclude>''This template will categorize articles that include it into [[:Category:Stubs]].''</noinclude>
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  • ...indicates the voiceless, unaspirated series of Greek plosives, ''π τ κ''. It may be useful as a more precise alternative when terms such as 'voiceless',
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  • ...ntity and its parts. The whole is also called [[holonym]] and each part of it a [[meronym]].
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  • ...ities in the [[universe of discourse]] have a particular property. In (i), it is used to express that every entity has property P. It is a standard assumption that natural language expressions such as ''each g
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  • * in [[:category:generative syntax|generative syntax]], it refers to the entire sequence of rule applications in the process of genera * in [[:category:morphology|morphology]], it refers to word formation through the association of dependent and independe
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  • ...f [[language planning]], in the well-known classification of Kloss (1969): It refers to modifications in the social role of a language, in particular the ...the status of the language, whether it is satisfactory as it is or whether it should be lowered or raised." (Kloss 1969)
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  • ...in ''it rains'' is quasi-referential) and expletives such as ''it'' (cf. ''it seems that he has gone'') and ''there'' (''there is a man in the garden'').
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  • Siraiki is an old language. It is spoken in centeral Pakistan. It is an Indo-Aryan language with deep influence of Munda and Dravidian langua
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  • ...f a yes-no question, but uttering it is an illocutionary act of a request: it would be improper to answer with a simple 'yes'.
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  • ...ification", I would prefer the term "genealogical classification", because it is more precise.--[[User:Haspelmath|Haspelmath]] 18:13, 28 October 2007 (CE ...s its own subject matter (it rather seems to be defined by the perspective it takes -- cross-linguistic). Anyway, what Glottopedia needs most urgently is
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  • ...''intransitive verb''' is a verb that does not require an [[object]], i.e. it requires only a [[subject]]. The term 'intransitive' subsumes [[monovalent] * avalent (intransitive) predicate: ''rains'' in ''It rains'
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  • ...dicate]] (or [[predicate term]]) and its argument(s) ([[argument term]]s). It concerns inherent properties of the relevant referents. ...cate ''assassinate'' requires an object that denotes a famous person, i.e. it imposes a selectional restriction to this effect.
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  • ...ve special properties not predictable from its parts and the rule by which it was created. :::''"It might in addition be useful to have a label for those established words whi
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  • ...constitutes the northern branch of [[Western Saamic|Western]] [[Saamic]]. It is further divided into the western group ([[Pite Saami]] and [[Lule Saami] It agrees with [[Southern Saamic]] in the following (western) features:
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  • ...only if it is fully determined by a structurally related [[phrase]], or if it is a 'designated element'. Part of the recoverability condition is subsumed
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  • ...ecause the fact that it is a [[clause]] is more salient than the fact that it is a [[complement]].
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  • : Good idea. Feel free to do so. IMHO it'd be more appropriate to call the category [[Writing system]], however. --[ .... In the article on [[Kildin Saami]] it looks ok. But what is *[[MPIExt]]? It is not used any longer. --[[User:MRiessler|MRiessler]] ([[User talk:MRiessl
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  • (i) Tell me about it. 'Tell (you) me now how it is'
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  • ...help to define a vocabulary, a grammar and a dialogue model. Furthermore, it can point out possible problems at an early stage. The WOZ technique can he # It must be possible to simulate the future system, given human limitations.
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  • ...ting quantifier''' is a [[quantifier]] that is not immediately near the NP it quantifies. French ''tous'' (all) is the exemplary case: ...'les étudiants'' it quantifies, but in (i)b ''tous'' has 'floated' off, as it were, into the sentence. Sportiche (1988) has claimed that ''tous'' in exam
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  • ...u can keep editing at the existing draft(s). Once the article is finished, it (and its history and discussions) will be moved to article name space by an
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  • ...oes not imply that people have a special [[module]] for processing speech. It claims that categorical perception can be understood as a problem of classi
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  • ...le denotation of the variables and individual and predicate constants that it contains. The formula All(x) [ P(x) v Neg P(x) ] is a tautology of predicat
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  • ...a copy of its antecedent (x's hat), rather than being co-referential with it. Full implementation of this analysis by means of [[lambda-abstraction]] is
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  • ...tive forms depending on the phonological or morphological context in which it appears. In another type of allomorphy, the realization of a [[morpheme]] i ...and probable, but when the noun-forming suffix ''-ity'' is attached to it it is pronounced as /ɪbil/ (''possibility'', ''probability'').
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  • ...' (spelled quinque). When distant assimilation applies over an entire word it is called [[harmony]] (e.g. [[vowel harmony]], [[nasal harmony]]).
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  • ...[[movement]] is blocked unless it affects the (linear) order of the string it applies to.
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  • ...ing conjunction''' is an older term for [[subordinator]]. (In older usage, it can be defined as a [[conjunction (i.e. connective)|conjunction]] that mark The reason this term was largely given up by linguists is that it was felt that [[subordinator]]s and [[coordinator]]s do not really form a n
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  • ...asurement (e.g. ''nián'' 'year'), it must be preceded by a classifier when it occurs with a numeral or a demonstrative.
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  • ...o investigate whether the marker can occur independently or not, if it can it is most likely a pronoun and not an article. Articles can be homophoneous w
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  • *Italian [[Edward Sapir (it)]]
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  • ...(1969): It refers to modifications in vocabulary, grammar, or writing, and it contrasts with [[status planning]].
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  • ...]]) which attaches at the righthand side of a [[base]], i.e. which follows it.
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  • ...it cannot have property ''Q'', and if ''x'' does not have property ''P'', it has property ''Q'':
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  • '''Acoustics''' is the study of sound waves. It is properly a subfield of physics, but is also key to the linguistic specia ...he [[vocal tract]] produce all of the [[speech sounds]] of human language. It also allows us to analyse those sounds based on audio recordings.
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  • ...It may also be the highest level for various other modalities. Certainly it is connected with the system for visual perception and other kinds of perce ...the sememic system, such as subtypes of "red" and the supertype "color". It is also directly connected to a point in the visual system where we have th
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  • ...over some (especially phonological and syntactic) structural properties to it.
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  • ...side [[declarative sentence|declarative]] and [[interrogative sentence]]s. It is very likely that there are also languages without a special class of exc ...tences in that they use [[interrogative pronoun]]s, e.g. English ''How big it is!''
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  • ...sition contains an argument. If the theta-criterion is defined over [[LF]] it says that each theta-position is in a unique [[chain]], and that each chain (i) a it seems that John is ill
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  • ...is unnecessary for the meaning of "happiness" to be in any way idiomatic: It is repeated use rather than degree of idiomaticity that determines presence ...rk|network]] (or wider cognitive network) is used, the easier it is to use it again: "The pathways of the brain are like pathways through a meadow or fie
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  • It would be nice to give the misinterpretation and the correct interpretation
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  • ...e elaborate versions, pretending to be a certain type of person performing it)." (WIlson 2006: 1734)
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  • ...r chooses it to be, as distinguished from the [[semantic reference]], that it has in virtue of its [[meaning]]. Kripke (1977) argued that [[referential n
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  • For a certain type of change, we can observe in which languages it occurred, and collections of attested sound changes then may show how frequ It occurred, e.g., in the history of most Iranian languages, Middle Indo-Aryan
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  • ...guistic system operates, e.g. for speaking and understanding, and (2) that it has been acquired and is further expandable, adaptable, and otherwise chang ...prescribed by some pre-existing linguistic theory, and certainly not that it is genetically determined by a language gene.
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  • ...hat an element is coindexed with its antecedent which c-commands it, hence it is bound by the antecedent.
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  • ...of an event is the entity that brings about an event and has control over it. ...encoded as a [[subject]] (in the nominative case); in ergative languages, it is associated with a special case, the [[ergative]]. Irrespective of the [[
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  • ...a short or long vowel. The [[rhyme]] of an open syllable does not branch, it only contains the [[nucleus]] (or, alternatively, peak). The English words
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  • ...of languages sprode around Europe, these are called [[Romance languages]]. It is a highly [[inflection|inflected]] language. Latin alphabet is the most used writing system in the world. It origins can be traced back to the early Greek [[alphabet]].
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  • In Generative Grammar, especially a branch of it, namely Distributed Morphology, ''exponent'' refers to the phonological for
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  • ...basic structures are so fundamental that they could just as well have made it possible for him to learn other concepts that he might have had to learn if
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  • ....org/index.php?title=Special%3APrefixindex&from=&namespace=14 categorizing it]''<br> Please do not remove this block until the problem is fixed.
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  • ...eally didn't want to leave, but he couldn't afford the rent, you know. And it had such a nice garden in the back!'' In the example, the discourse topic is established in the first sentence: it is ''Mike's house''. In the following sentence, a new "local" topic is esta
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  • ** The operations which make it possible for people to produce and understand speech. ...lev, but they only proposed it as a point of view, never demonstrated that it could actually work.
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  • "Language" is just a term of English. It may be interesting to take note of the fact that many of what English calls ...nguage is not only unobservable, it is not a physical object of any kind. It can be regarded as a very abstract object or as a logical construct, or as
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  • ...in -''a'' it is feminine (e.g. ''lampa'' 'lamp'), and if it ends in -''o'' it is neuter (e.g. ''okno'' 'window'). Some languages only distinguish two gen
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  • ...n 'spin', finally, as in 'cap', or followed by a consonant, as in 'print', it will not have this aspiration.
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  • ...subject raising, (ii) is impossible, since the subject position taken by ''it'' is skipped in moving ''Vitesse'' to the subject position of ''seems''. (ii) *Vitesse seems [that it is certain [t to win]]
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  • '''Synonymy''' is a [[sense relation]]. It holds between two [[word]]s or [[phrase]]s with the same [[meaning]], like
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  • ...thway going through a field or a jungle, the more it gets used, the easier it is to use the next time.
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  • ...[anomaly]] or that it is intelligible by native speakers of that language. It only refers to the compliance with underlying syntactic rules. Grammaticali
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  • ...social in-groups, breaking the English’s standart, while the aim of using it is the exchange of information within the group itself. Therefore, slang al ...year-old, means someone who’s very drunk, but in the twenty-first century, it means someone who’s under the influence of drugs (marijuana).
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  • '''Instrument''' is a [[semantic relation]]. It is used for an inanimate entity with the help of which a given action is ca
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  • ...s moved, it can optionally 'drag along' a larger [[NP]] or [[PP]] in which it is contained.
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  • ...son having a disconnection between sound patterns and the production area. It is caused by damage to the arcuate fasciculus.
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  • ...It is the answer to the questions ‘who’ and ‘what’ in the clause. Thereby it says about whom the sentence is made. The subject agrees with the verb in n
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  • ...stics)|lexeme]] stands for just one thing, ruling out the possibility that it might have different senses in different contexts. ...an object that is an integral whole, even if closer examination would show it to be a relatively haphazard collection of diverse phenomena.
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  • ...'' is a type of situation (or state of affairs) which is [[dynamic]], i.e. it is associated with (physical, temporal etc.) change. ...sive aspect denotes the continuation of an action and with accomplishments it refers to the “preparatory process leading towards the culmination of the
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  • ...ion''' is a relation holding between a [[constituent]] and the clause that it forms part of.
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  • Global aphasia is aphasia which affects all language functions. It is caused by damage to all of the langauge processing components which are
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  • ...onstruction''' (omitting the subject, which Lamb does not consider part of it) is a [[construction (in neurocognitive linguistics)|construction]] that ca ...e", etc. Here, <MOVE> represents any action that can cause motion, and so it permits any verb that can be so construed, even "sneeze", to impart motion
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  • Surface dyslexia is often the result of temporal lobe damage. It causes the subject to have to carefully sound out each word. This results i
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  • ...t and a repairing rule), just like trying to pronounce a second language - it gets filtered through our phonotactics! we already know that phonemic disti ...enough cross-linguistic data to find all possible changes. figure out why it's just them.
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  • A [[speech sound]] is called '''voiceless''' if it is pronounced with open [[vocal folds]] so that air from the lungs can free
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  • ...' <br>Please '''do not edit''' this article as long as this beacon is set. It will be removed by the active author when the article can be edited by othe
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  • ...tell you your password and to verify your e-mail address. After confirming it, you can start editing.
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  • * Would it be possible do make derivatives (MySQL dump -> new installation) or incorpo : Offer from M. Zisk to move it to Sendai
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  • ...ier.de/uni/fb2/ldv/ldv_wiki/index.php/Hauptseite WikiLingua] link is dead. It might be replaced with https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikilingua .
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  • ...May (1977) states that "the scope of a quantifier phi is everything which it c-commands" (meaning: at LF). Thus, if the relevant syntactic level of repr
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  • ...internal representation of the lexeme. Note that whenever it is activated it activates the rest of the functional web -- connections to meaning nodes an ...nnected. Every lexeme has its connection to the grammatical tactics. And it connects downwards to expression in some cases as a simple connection; for
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  • ...hey are presenting may not be totally correct to avoid the claims and make it more respectful. Furthermore, hedge can also navigate how the interactions ..."perhaps" is used to introduce a sense of uncertainty or tentativeness and it sounds like an alternative possibility.
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  • Language Science Press is an imprint based on the idea of Open Access. It was initiated in 2012 by [[Stefan Müller]] and [[Martin Haspelmath]].
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  • ...''' is a notion in the [[Minimalist Program]]. A [[derivation]] crashes if it does not [[converge]].
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  • ...er NP. A proper quantifier denotation Q is also called a ''sieve'' because it only lets through those VP denotations that together with Q make a true sen
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  • ...ctic time is usually the moment of utterance. Under specific circumstances it can be shifted to the ‘decoding time’: * it is a past tense because it is used when T<sub>r</sub> <T<sub>o</sub>;
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  • Thank you for creating this article. It would be nice to create links to relevant keywords and concepts, even if th
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  • * It now uses WorldCat, with the benefit that the link format
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  • The term has been around since the 1960s. It seems that it arose in connection with policy decisions in newly independent Asian and Af
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  • ...ase of [[improper movement]], or as a [[binding]] violation. As a solution it has been proposed that ''John'' in (i) is an argument of the adjective ''ea ...exed with ''John''. Easy to confuse with [[though-movement]] though it is, it is different.
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  • ...ss'' does not refer to a behind which is smart but to a person who is know-it-all smart. An alternative term used for such compounds is [[bahuvrihi compo
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  • ...ed and having the same loudness and pitch are dissimilar. Put more simply, it relates to the '''sound quality''' of the segment.
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  • ...rganization of linguists with a special interest in [[language typology]]. It was founded in 1993.
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  • ...opies)''' an element from a language Y (the [[donor language]]) means that it comes to include this element into its own system. ...ructure of a group's native language from the external language with which it is in contact. This kind of influence is referred to as "borrowing"."'' (Wi
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  • ...t. The meaning of a complex form is said to be '(fully) compositional' iff it can be derived in accordance with the [[Compositionality Principle]].
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  • ...' is a morphological [[operation]] by which one [[morpheme]] is deleted if it is internal to another [[suffix]]. ...es this problem by allowing for a truncation rule that deletes -''ate'' if it is followed by -''ee'', as in (ii):
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  • [[Stratificational grammar]] defined its term "tactics" after Hockett. It has the same Greek root as ''syntax'', referring to arrangements. He said ...neously functions as topic and agent -- it will have an upward AND linking it to the two functions. Or, in "Harry kicked himself," there is a third line
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