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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Grammatical function (LFG)
  ..., ''[[complement]] of'', ''[[head]] of'', etc., which in [[configurational language]]s correspond to specific [[syntactic positions]].
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• Topic
  Many [[language]]s, like [[English language|English]], resort to different means in order to signal a new topic, such a *Using [[passive voice]] to transform an [[object (grammar)|object]] into a subject (for the above reason).
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• Kompetenz vs. Performanz
  *A. Barber (Hg.), Epistemology of Language. Oxford 2003, 107–139. *C. Boeckx & M. Piatelli-Palmarini, Language as a Natural Object; Linguistics as a Natural Science. LRev 2005.
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• Neurological plausibility
  ...ot treat a linguistic structure as just some kind of abstract mathematical object. In keeping with the requirements of operational plausibility and developme ...Linguistic structure: A plausible theory" in <i>[http://www.ludjournal.org Language Under Discussion]</i>, published online June 2, 2016.
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• Exceptional Case Marking
  * [[subject-to-object raising]] * Chomsky, N. 1986a. ''Knowledge of language: its nature, origin and use,'' Praeger, New York.
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• Rolando Félix Armendáriz
  ...esis proposes that Yaqui is a primary object language, and that Yaqui is a language where grammatical relations as well as semantic relations are present. ...and rich [[voice]] phenomena in addition to an overall description of the language in the [[functional-typological]] framework. It is also a useful reference
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• Ferdinand de Saussure
  ====Saussure's language theories==== In „Cours de linguistique générale“ a theory of language as a system of signs is presented.
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• Viktor Jakovlevič Bunjakovskij
  ....e. numerical assertions about the complete inventory of the words of that language, about the distribution of these words according to the parts of speech, ab ...wasted, because the assumed gain of the exactness of the conclusions about language does not pay for the loss of time. We do not take on the responsibility of
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• Portal:Psycholinguistics
  ...ndrome]], [[sapir-whorf hypothesis]], [[split-brain patients]], [[specific language impairment]], [[surface dyslexia]], [[verbal efficiency theory]], [[william Language Acquisition:
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• Unaccusative verb
  ...subclass of [[intransitive]]s. Their [[single argument]]s denote [[direct object]]s in [[relational grammar]] and [[Government and Binding Theory|GB]], inst Its argument is in object position at D-structure, but has to move to subject position in order to re
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• Clitic
  In French, object pronouns are clitics which are either proclitics, as ''me'' and ''les'' in *Zwicky, A. & Pullum, G. 1983. Cliticization vs. Inflection: English n't. ''Language 59,'' 509-513.
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• Irish
  |Language =Irish ...a small minority of the country’s population has native competence in the language, most Irish people being native speakers of [[English]].
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• Relational network
  ...hat a lexical item (likewise morpheme, phoneme) is a unit of some kind, an object or symbol or combination of symbols, we analyze its relationships to other ...w.cgi?bookid=CILT%20170 Pathways of the Brain: The Neurocognitive Basis of Language], John Benjamins, 1999.
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• Tactic pattern
  ...hat will relate NPs to the different functions they have, like subject and object. ...p://books.google.com/books/about/Language_and_Reality.html?id=vrlPUxB2_JwC Language and Reality: Selected Writings of Sydney Lamb], Continuum, 2004.
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• Clause structure in Skolt Saami
  ...iew of the [[Syntax]] of simple and complex clauses in the [[Skolt Saami]] language. Example without an object:
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• Complement
  In English-language linguistics the term ''complement'' in this sense is common only as part of ...complements and optional [[adjunct]]s. This meaning is standard in Russian-language linguistics.)
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• Classifier (Athapaskan linguistics)
  ...bs differ only in their use of the classifier to indicate the class of the object (Naish & Story 1973:376). *Young, Robert W. & Morgan, William. 1987. ''The Navajo language: A grammar and colloquial dictionary.'' 2nd edition. Albuquerque: Universit
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• Ambiguity, Polysemy and Vagueness
  ...s why a single expression may lead to multiple interpretations. In natural language many words, strings of words and sentences are ambiguous, simply because of ...reek ‘ballizar’ (meaning ‘to dance’) and was first attested in the English language in the 1630s being introduced through Old French. (Online Etymological Dict
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• Tsez
  |Language =Tsez ...age|Georgian]]) is a [[Northeast_Caucasian_languages|Northeast Caucasian]] language with about 7000 speakers spoken by the Tsez, a muslimic people in the moun
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• Kaili (en)
  ...i Tengah province were (1979) native speakers of a Kaili language. Object language of this article is the main dialect Ledo, which is spoken in the district ( Kaili is a typical Malayo-Polynesian language with a morphology that has isolating as well as a few agglutinative feature
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• S.-Y. Kuroda/publications
  1960a. Gengo no Kijutsu. [Description of Language.] Tokyo: Kenkyu-sha. 1965a. Causative froms in Japanese. Foundations of Language 1. 30-50.
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• Wincenty Lutosławski
  ...s between the physical domain, defined by precise and formalised laws, and language. He realised that the contemporary level of linguistic and mathematical kno ...la. The answer is, that a like infinity of characteristics exists in every object of natural science, and that science is possible only through the distincti
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• Coherence
  ...tries, manuals etc.), or the description of either a living creature or an object (as found, for instance, in dictionary articles) ...course” (Report No. CSLI-85-37). Stanford, Calif.: Center for the Study of Language and Information. 1-35.
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• Hadza
  |Language = Hadza Hadza is a language isolate of Tanzania.
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