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Tungag language (1,047 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

pa verb phrase / adjunct Prohibition (negative imperative) Subject / ago ta / verb phrase / adjunct / -an / direct object Coordinate conjunction Verb phrase

Temiar language (382 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

ʔun-tu:y 'they-elsewhere.' The verb phrase is ordered as sentential negation, auxiliary verb and main verb. The verb phrase precedes the subject. Temiar

Grammatical modifier (1,207 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

referred to. Similarly, the adverb "quickly" acts as a modifier in the verb phrase "run quickly". Modification can be considered a high-level domain of

Ga–Dangme languages (126 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

that are different, and grammatical differences, particularly in the verb phrase. Where they differ, Adangme is usually closer to the original Proto-Ga–Dangme

Do-support (2,471 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

acting as a pro-verb since it effectively takes the place of a verb or verb phrase: did substitutes for fell asleep. As in the principal cases of do-support

Statistical parsing (644 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

followed by a noun, and "can hold water" is a verb phrase which is itself composed of a verb followed by a verb phrase. But is this the only interpretation of

Definite clause grammar (1,902 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

and what they look like. sentence --> noun_phrase, verb_phrase. noun_phrase --> det, noun. verb_phrase --> verb, noun_phrase. det --> [the]. det --> [a]

Saliba language (Papua New Guinea) (3,027 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

lexical verbs can combine to form one inflected verb. For example, in the verb phrase ye-kamposi-dobi, which means 'he jumped down', the verb kamposi-dobi

Paamese language (4,411 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

onto the verb phrase head in the following order: Subject marker + mood marker + negative marker + stem The syntactic position of the verb phrase head can

Bukiyip language (1,350 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Modified Verb Phrase: Modifier (class 1-2 adverb) + Head (verb class 1-7) + Modifier (class 3 adverb, adverb phrase) 2. Repeated Verb Phrase: Head (verb

Gurindji Kriol language (3,317 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Gurindji Kriol exhibits a structural split between the noun phrase and verb phrase, with Gurindji contributing the noun structure including case-marking

Lexical semantics (4,502 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Structure Hypothesis and Verb Phrase Hypothesis, both outlined below. The recursion found under the "umbrella" Verb Phrase, the VP Shell, accommodated

Rapa Nui language (6,517 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

contribute to negation in Rapa Nui: kore (Existential/noun negator) hia / ia (verb phrase particle which occurs in combination with different negators to form

Konkomba language (2,527 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Konkomba is a Gurma language spoken in Ghana, Togo and Burkina Faso.[citation needed] Konkomba is spoken in Ghana (Northern Region, Volta Region, Brong

Farefare language (2,560 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

bo ma ligeri lá. 3SG give 1SG money DEF „S/he gave me the money.“ The verb phrase (VP) consists of pre- and postverbal particles surrounding the verb.

Bambalang language (316 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Jennifer (2009). "The Noun and Verb Phrase in Chrambo (Bambalang)" (PDF). SIL. Wright, Jennifer (2011). "Tone in the Verb Phrase in Chrambo (Bambalang)" (PDF)

Dagbani language (2,623 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Dagbani (or Dagbane), also known as Dagbanli or Dagbanle, is a Gur language spoken in Ghana and Northern Togo. Its native speakers are estimated around

Computer program (13,233 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

noun-phrase verb-phrase article adjective noun verb-phrase the adjective noun verb-phrase the big noun verb-phrase the big cat verb-phrase the big cat

Araki language (4,293 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

prepositional phrases and indirect objects, which always appear outside the verb phrase. As in many Oceanic languages, not only verbs but also nouns (as well

Will call (378 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

usually stressed ("will call") rather than the second syllable in the verb phrase ("will call"). The term is most commonly used in relation to admission

Kurama language (84 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

(2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation. "Kurama". Joshua project. Verb Phrase in Kurama v t e

Standard Theory (Egyptology) (1,014 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

substantival, or adverbial, with the possibility of ‘transposing’ any given verb phrase into any of these three classes. This analysis rests on the basis of

Dagaare language (2,904 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Dagaare is the language of the Dagaaba people of Ghana, Burkina Faso, and Ivory Coast. It has been described as a dialect continuum that also includes

Buli language (Ghana) (3,790 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Buli, or Kanjaga, is a Gur language of Ghana primarily spoken in the Builsa District, located in the Upper East Region of the country. It is an SVO language

Zeno Vendler (850 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

and the Encoding of Arguments: The Syntax of the Mandarin and English Verb Phrase" (PDF). p. 19. Retrieved 12 November 2008. Lin, Jimmy (2004). "Event

Toba Batak language (1,067 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(1), the verb mangallang 'eat' precedes the object kue 'cake', and the verb phrase precedes dakdanak i 'the child'. (1) Mangallang AT-eat kue cake dakdanak

Macedonian conjugation (690 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Futurity is expressed by placing the invariable particle ќе before a verb phrase. The synthetic series consists of three simple tenses—the present, imperfect

Longgu language (6,859 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

after the subject pronoun in a verb phrase expressing realis mood, and after the irrealis particle ho (5) in a verb phrase (negative predicate) which expresses

Branching (linguistics) (1,607 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

of right-branching phrases (= head-initial phrases): laugh loudly - Verb phrase (VP) with luck - Prepositional phrase (PP) that it happened - Subordinator

Subject–object–verb word order (4,947 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

following sentence exhibits the typical SOV word order tendency. The verb phrase is in retrospective perfect participle form, indicating completion of

Kyrgyz language (1,484 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

DEF know-NEG-1SG roughly "I don't know my having seen what," where the verb phrase "I saw what" is treated as a nominal object of the verb "to know." The

Hoava language (3,161 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(Pg. 243, Figure 70) In cases where a noun phrase is placed before the verb phrase or noun phrase predicate, kipu is not fronted. Ria PRO:3PL pa PRP Vareso

Antisymmetry (3,412 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

zenmeyang could not appear in a verb phrase with sentence-final le, assuming the above analysis, since that verb phrase has moved into a non-complement

Bannoni language (981 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

these is unknown. Sentences having more than two phrases outside the verb phrase are quite unusual." Link to Paradisec recordings of the Bannoni language

Anaphora (linguistics) (2,404 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

antecedent angry. d. If Sam buys a new bike, I shall do it as well. – The verb phrase do it is an anaphor; it points to the left toward its antecedent buys

Dative shift (4,691 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

direct object [a letter]. The OD form therefore involves an underlying verb phrase (VP) whose subject is [a letter] and whose object is [(to) Mary]. The

Irreversible binomial (3,742 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

is a noun phrase for a low-priced variety store, nickel and dime is a verb phrase for penny-pinching. The words in an irreversible binomial belong to the

Tree structure (968 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

key example being S → NP VP, meaning a sentence is a noun phrase and a verb phrase, with each in turn having other components which have other components)

Tîrî language (2,019 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of a predicate (Osumi, 1995, pp. 37–38). When they appear within the verb phrase, personal pronouns show agreement in person and number with the nominal

Text simplification (543 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The first sentence contains two relative clauses and one conjoined verb phrase. A text simplification system aims to change the first sentence into

Lou language (Austronesian) (94 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article

2015) (subscription required) Stutzman, Verna (1997). A Study of the Lou Verb Phrase (MA thesis). University of Manitoba. hdl:1993/1324. A Lou dictionary

My two cents (597 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

its variations may also be used in place of the noun "opinion" or the verb phrase "state [subject's] opinion", e.g. "You had to put your two cents in,

Valency (linguistics) (2,690 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

verb phrase That he came late did not surprise us. – Subject is a clause Sam persuaded us to contribute to the cause. – Object is a non-finite verb phrase

Lutz Marten (289 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

his thesis entitled Syntactic and Semantic Underspecification in the Verb Phrase. Between 2014 and 2018, Marten was the principal investigator of the

Kunama language (342 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Michigan State University. pp. 280–322. Thompson, E. David (1989). "Kunama Verb Phrase". In Bender, M. Lionel (ed.). Topics in Nilo-Saharan Linguistics. Hamburg:

Manam language (5,668 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

postpositional phrases Ex. (3), numbers Ex. (4), etc.: 93 Ex. (1): verb phrase predicator: 94 (1) natu child masa INIR ŋa-eno 3SG.IRR-sleep natu masa

Aikanã language (777 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

non-front vowel, and as [ɲ] or [j̃] before a nasal vowel. In Aikanã, the verb phrase or predicate morphological template is:: 19 Loukotka (1968) lists the

Karipúna French Creole (5,673 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

tense marker is dependent on the class of verb phrase. Tobler (1983) distinguishes five classes of verb phrase: Event, Experience, Process, State A, and

English compound (3,893 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

prepositions (e.g. take place on). "Compound verb" is often confused with: "verb phrase"/"verbal phrase"—Headed by a verb, many verbal phrases are multi-word

Libuše Dušková (1,928 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

spans a broad spectrum of topics in English linguistics, namely the verb phrase, the noun phrase, simple and complex sentences, the grammar-text interface

Shintarō Arakawa (1,103 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Re-analysis of the Tangut verb phrase based on a study of the word order, 西夏学, 9巻, 290--297, 2014年 On the Tangut verb phrase in The Sea of Meaning, Established

Danau language (1,376 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

clauses and "adjectives") can precede or follow the noun they modify. The verb phrase in Danau exhibits a complex internal structure, combining prefixes and

Simple past (1,226 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Douglas; Quirk, Randolph, eds. (2012). "Chapter 6: Variations in the verb phrase: tense aspect, voice, and modal use.". Longman grammar of spoken and

Aneityum language (4,646 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

abbreviation(s) (help); Verbs in Anejom̃ are words that can occur as the head of a verb phrase. In Anejom̃, verbs are distinguished by transitivity; there are transitive

Antecedent (grammar) (1,214 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

phrase as antecedent g. Fred works hard, but Tom does not do the same. - Verb phrase as antecedent h. Susan lies all the time, which everybody knows about

Sotho deficient verbs (2,964 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

followed by its (first) direct object then this structure creates a "verb phrase" (or "prosodic phrase"), which may be treated as one phonological unit

Subordination (linguistics) (976 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

superordinate to the NP; a prepositional phrase (PP) that modifies a verb phrase (VP) is subordinate to the VP and the VP is superordinate to the PP;

Maidu language (3,477 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

word order V-O-O never occurs. The basic clause in Maidu contains one Verb phrase, between zero and two Subject phrases, between zero and four locative

Klamath language (890 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

word order is conditioned by pragmatics. There is no clearly defined verb phrase or noun phrase. Alignment is nominative–accusative, with nominal case

Langue and parole (1,100 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

grammar which excluded semantics and placed the direct object into the verb phrase, following Wundt's psychological concept, as advocated in American linguistics

Djaru language (1,897 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

other words placed in their midst, i.e. words that are not part of the verb phrase that occur between the preverb and verb) The Djaru language utilises

Lexical functional grammar (849 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

a sentence which is made up of two pieces, a noun phrase (NP) and a verb phrase (VP). The VP is itself made up of two pieces, a verb (V) and another

Intransitive verb (1,783 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Therefore, this is not the same as passive voice, where an intransitive verb phrase appears, but there is an implicit agent (which can be made explicit using

The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (4,205 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

noun phrase (NP) which functions as the subject of the clause and a verb phrase (VP), which functions as the head of the clause. The VP, in turn, is

Nonsense verse (940 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

past-tense verb. "Somforbe" could possibly be a noun, possibly a slurred verb phrase. In the sense that it is a slurred verb, it could be the word "stumbled"

Yawalapití language (1,046 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

possessive phrases, and can indicate the subject or the object of a verb phrase. The set of possessive prefixes of Yawalapiti is very similar to those

Movement paradox (612 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Example of topicalization a. *...but she did not met me. - Underlined verb phrase is unacceptable before movement b. ?...but met me she did not ___. -

Korku language (1,346 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

postpositions, a case system, a two-gender system, and three numbers. The verb phrase can be complex in Korku; functions that in English and other languages

Basque language (11,272 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the focus. In such sentences, the verb phrase comes at the end. In brief, the focus directly precedes the verb phrase. This rule is also applied in questions

De Bello Africo (425 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

The Development of Latin Clause Structure: A Study of the Extended Verb Phrase. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 88. ISBN 9780198759522. A. Bouvet

Sulka language (1,618 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and third person plural have an initial velar. Additionally, the basic verb phrase begins with a subject proclitic indicating both subject person/number

Sorani (4,435 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

word/morpheme. If the verb phrase has words other than the verb itself (as in the above example), it attaches to first word in the verb phrase. If no such pre-verbal

Angelika Kratzer (448 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Rooryck, J.; Zaring, L. (eds.). "Severing the External Argument from its Verb". Phrase Structure and the Lexicon. Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic

English nouns (8,248 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

everything after the determinative (similar to the way a clause has a verb phrase that includes basically everything after the subject). The following

S-expression (1,713 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Natural Language Processing in Lisp), where S=sentence, NP=Noun Phrase, VP=Verb Phrase, V=Verb: (((S) (NP VP)) ((VP) (V)) ((VP) (V NP)) ((V) died) ((V) employed)

Nominalization (3,881 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the verb phrase, and there can be more than one of them. External arguments are those that are not contained within the maximal projection of the verb phrase

Sikaiana language (1,035 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

usually do not lead with a preposition, but for noun phrases that follow a verb phrase, it may or may not lead with a preposition (Donner, 2012). As for nouns

Khmer grammar (1,233 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

placing មិន "[mɨn]" (not, not to be) before the verb and ending the verb phrase with ទេ "[teː]", which, as a stand-alone word can be either "no" or a

Polci language (1,130 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

between the verb and its arguments. However, plurality appears in the verb phrase in two places: (i) the formation of the imperatives (ii) a verbal derivation

Jason Kandybowicz (1,206 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Biolinguistics 3: 94–99. (2003) On Directionality and the Structure of the Verb Phrase: Evidence from Nupe (with Mark C. Baker). Syntax 6: 115–155. "Jason Kandybowicz"

Emae language (1,165 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

actor, predicate and goal. The actor is the subject, the predicate the verb phrase and the goal is the object of the sentence. Emae follows the SVO pattern

Kanamarí language (491 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

transitive verbs) is unmarked for case, and usually appears following the verb phrase. tyuku die wa:pa dog tyuku wa:pa die dog 'The dog died.' no-ti 2.SG.GEN-kill

Adjective phrase (1,835 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

phrases: Adjective Clause Dependency grammar Head (linguistics) Linking verb Phrase Phrase structure grammar Predicative expression See Ouhalla (1994:34

E-Prime (2,470 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

copula possessive-noun The cat is theirs. auxiliary: noun-phrase copula verb-phrase The cat is sleeping. – with the copula being part of the progressive

Tamambo language (4,758 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

aspectual tele 'not yet' and lete 'never' can appear in the same slot of the Verb Phrase, illustrated below: Both the negative aspectuals appear to be derived

List of business terms (90 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Verb phrase Definition Action that Put something into practice Baked in Something which has been "baked in" is implied to be impossible to remove. Alternatively

Labu language (1,263 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Despite deriving from a verb stem, because ki cannot stand alone within a verb phrase (VP), it cannot be classified as a verb. The three forms of the negative

Survey of English Usage (765 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Phrase, Subordination in Spoken and Written English, and the English Verb Phrase. The Survey also provides support for PhD students who carry out research

Pashto grammar (10,879 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and circumpositions. Generally, head-final order is found also in the verb phrase, with the verb, if any, as the final element. Relative clauses and sentence-level

Public humiliation (2,080 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

stripped civilian women to humiliate them; this was described with the verb phrase "to naked someone else." In Siam, an adulteress was paraded with a hibiscus

Arosi language (1,164 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

compound, and complex. Major sentences consist of a noun phrase (NP) and verb phrase (VP). The subject of the sentence can often be broken down into these

Malak-Malak language (1,571 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

water underneath-LOC "he sits down underneath the water" MalakMalak's verb phrase uses complex predicates. These consist of an inflecting verb that has

Kanbun (2,517 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

zhě 者 'one who', 'somebody who', which works as nominalizer marking a verb phrase as certain kinds of noun phrases. The original Chinese sentence is marked

Cahuilla language (3,561 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

existence of kinsperson.' However, while tense plays little role within the verb phrase, aspect and mode are present throughout. Aspect Status (actuality of

Central American Spanish (1,505 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

replaced by a verbal phrase (periphrasis) in the spoken language. This verb phrase is formed by the verb ir ("go") followed by the preposition a and the

Bench language (1,483 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

sentence, especially sentence-initially - and reduced, used as part of a verb phrase. The "locative" term means "to, at, or for one's own place or house"

Russenorsk (1,604 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1017/S0047404500010125. S2CID 145283995. Velupillai, Viveka (2015). "The verb phrase and prediction" In Pidgins, Creoles & Mixed Languages edited by Miriam

Kaska language (1,547 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

affixes themselves. The prefix ɬe- marks for dual subject in at least one verb phrase: "to sit." Postpositional morphemes, such as ts'i'- ("to") and yé- ("about")

English passive voice (7,805 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

acceptable because sleeping above a bunk does not change its state; the verb phrase been slept above does not express a "relevantly important property" of

Max Factor (2,811 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

officially began referring to his products as "make-up," based on the verb phrase "to make up" (one's face). Until then the term "cosmetics" had been used;

Sentence diagram (995 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Noun, NP means Noun Phrase, S means Sentence, V means Verb, VP means Verb Phrase and IP means Inflectional Phrase. Constituency is a one-to-one-or-more

Recursion (3,644 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

meanings to create new sentences, and likewise for noun phrase meanings, verb phrase meanings, and others. It can also apply to intransitive verbs, transitive

Sentence diagram (995 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Noun, NP means Noun Phrase, S means Sentence, V means Verb, VP means Verb Phrase and IP means Inflectional Phrase. Constituency is a one-to-one-or-more

Siraya language (1,599 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

auxiliaries constitute an open class and are placed at the head of the verb phrase (Adelaar 1997). The Siraya personal pronouns below are from Adelaar (1997)

Frequentative (1,737 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

liuobėti in Samogitian – will then occupy the syntactic centre of the verb phrase (subject to conjugation), relegating the main verb to trail it as an

IDEF0 (1,676 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

or transformation (modeled by an IDEF0 box) identified by a verb or verb phrase that describes what must be accomplished. Join : The junction at which

Selection (linguistics) (1,263 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

syntactic category of their complement arguments - e.g. noun (phrase), verb (phrase), adjective (phrase), etc. - i.e. they determine the syntactic category

Welsh syntax (2,847 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

analysis of Welsh word order is to argue that the subject moves out of the verb phrase to a position higher in the clause. This argument is made on the basis

Relativizer (3,749 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

phrase, or they can introduce a relative clause as an argument of a verb phrase. D-Type Relativizers may only introduce a relative clause as an argument

Savosavo language (1,324 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

verbalized using the suffix -sa in order to function as the head of the verb phrase: Lo mavutu=na ka molumolu-sa-zu (The place was already an island) Savosavo's

Amor Gitano (1,793 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

a pretty good job of phonetically singing in Spanish (the occasional verb phrase doesn't blend), this is more about novelty than about being a great single

Grammatical aspect (8,145 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

property of a verb in isolation, but rather a property of an entire verb phrase. Achievements, accomplishments and semelfactives have telic situation

Wāw rubba (408 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of asseveration'. Wāw rubba is used to introduce a noun followed by a verb phrase. The noun in such a construction is always in the genitive case. Useful

Logical connective (3,053 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Connective In English Noun for parts Verb phrase Conjunction Both A and B conjunct A and B are conjoined Disjunction Either A or B, or both disjunct A

Paumarí language (1,963 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

agreement, it appears that feminine is the unmarked gender. In a transitive verb phrase, the verb agrees in gender with whichever of the agent or the object

Waimiri-Atroarí language (3,896 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

follow the A, in Wamiri Atroari the order is AOV (Bruno 2015, 7). A Verb-Phrase may be formed with just the verb (Bruno 2015, 7) (1) Ka-ky! speak-IMPER

Pregroup grammar (1,889 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

et al. (2008). "Pregroup grammars with linear parsing of the French verb phrase" (PDF). CL2008: 53–84. Sadrzadeh, Mehrnoosh (2008). "Pregroup analysis

Tommo So (1,182 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

between words in the noun phrase, and can affect multiple words. Although verb phrase tonal overlays are strictly defined for all verbs, noun phrase tonal

Personal pronoun (3,395 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

So, it is a pronoun but not a pro-form. Finally, in [3], did so is a verb phrase, not a pronoun, but it is a pro-form standing for "help". Languages typically

Chengyu (2,003 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

because of this "no-retreat" strategy. Thus, the idiom is used as a verb phrase with the meaning "to make an all-out effort to achieve success by the

Extreme programming practices (2,717 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

following paragraph seems to be an incomplete sentence. Where is the verb phrase?. Please help clarify the article. There might be a discussion about

John R. Ross (1,124 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Illinois, pp. 63–111. Lakoff, George; & Ross, John R. (1966). Criterion for verb phrase constituency. In Harvard Computation Laboratory Report to the National

Timucua language (3,036 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in a noun phrase becomes a demonstrative, and a non-finite verb in a verb phrase becomes a modifier. Clauses in Timucua are: subjects, complements (direct

Lengo language (3,193 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

run." The subject reference pronoun appears as the first element in a verb phrase. It is obligatory in any main clause, but can be excepted in subordinate

Xârâcùù (1,726 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

intensifier. While there is a small amount of verbal morphology, each verb phrase can contain a preverbal subject-marking pronoun. Subject and Predicate

Merei-Tiale language (2,214 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Verbal clause structure: 38 (Subject noun phrase) Verb phrase (Object noun phrase) (Prepositional phrase) (Location phrase) (Time phrase)

Early New High German (2,740 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

norm where the noun in the genitive is a proper noun (Marias Auto). Verb phrase Increasing complexity: more complex verbal constructions with participles

Tamasheq language (2,598 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

examples above, the verb precedes the object. Auxiliaries precede the verb phrase. Future particle has a form àd in clause-initial position.: 589 For

Feedback (5,834 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

landmark paper on control theory and the mathematics of feedback. The verb phrase to feed back, in the sense of returning to an earlier position in a mechanical

Verb–object–subject word order (5,642 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

to how VOS clauses are derived, but there is significant evidence for verb-phrase-raising. Kayne's theory of antisymmetry suggests that VOS clauses are

Mixed language (4,561 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Gurindji Kriol exhibits a structural split between the noun phrase and verb phrase, with Gurindji contributing the noun structure including case-marking

Adposition (5,578 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

complements. This can include nominal clauses and certain types of non-finite verb phrase: We can't agree on whether to have children or not (complement is a nominal

Echo question (1,111 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

incredulity response). It combines a subject with either a non-finite verb phrase: A: Alice worried about the price of the tickets. B: Alice, worry? .

Maia language (2,088 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Kunia plate 3S-give-RL.3S 'He/she gave the plate to Kunia.' (p. 122) The verb phrase in the example above illustrates that the verb + object phrase in Maia

Gurindji language (1,668 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

order is relatively free, though constrained by discourse functions. The verb phrase is made up of a free coverb and an inflecting verb which contains information

Paya language (1,810 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

tèʔ(k) in first and final position, with other verb-stems in between. Verb-phrase & sentence conjunction Linear sequencing; it does not require the use

Trumai language (3,771 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

noun phrase or attach the third person enclitic –n/-e to the end of the verb phrase. Transitive clauses have A marked by –(V)k and O marked by –ø. Similarly

Flexes (19 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

instead. From a verb: This is a redirect from an English-language verb or verb phrase to a related word or topic. When appropriate, protection levels are automatically

Carolinian language (3,037 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

subject pronoun was almost invariably attached to whichever part of the verb phrase immediately was following. For example, the negative marker, the aspect

Rioplatense Spanish (3,162 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

to use a verbal phrase (periphrasis) in the informal language. This verb phrase is formed by the verb ir ("to go") followed by the preposition a ("to")

Aymara language (4,439 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

phrase-final suffix must appear minimally on a noun, noun phrase, verb, or verb phrase (note that two phrase-final suffixes, the additive -sa and the confirmatory

Mohawk language (3,898 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

necessary. Tense, aspect and modality are expressed via suffixes on the verb phrase as well. Some examples: (12) katorats k- 1SG- atorat- hunt s HAB k- atorat-

English clause element (854 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

but using partly different terms and abbreviations:: 122 Subject (S) Verb phrase (V) Indirect object (Oi) Direct Object (Od) Subject predicative (Ps)

Ho-Chunk language (2,772 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Both elements are required in such phrases: the particle precedes the verb phrase, while -nį is suffixed to the verb. The following examples demonstrate

Chavacano (9,925 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

not become 'da' but dale (give) (literally in Spanish, to "give it" [verb phrase]). In this case, dale has nothing to do with the Spanish infinitive dar

Ho-Chunk language (2,772 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Both elements are required in such phrases: the particle precedes the verb phrase, while -nį is suffixed to the verb. The following examples demonstrate

Wappo language (2,691 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

always sentence-final. Its location depends on the composition of the verb phrase. luče tobacco neʔ have - - khiʔ STAT hiʔ Q miʔ 2SG:NOM luče neʔ - khiʔ

Eric Schiller (3,010 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

thesis was entitled "An autolexical account of subordinating serial verb phrase constructions". He was a published author in linguistics, specializing

Negative inversion (1,731 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

dependency grammars. Auxiliary verb Dependency grammar Discontinuity Finite verb Phrase structure grammar Inversion Subject-auxiliary inversion V2 word order

Wuvulu-Aua language (4,416 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(literally, caused it to be bad).' "Preverbal morphemes within the Wuvulu verb phrase, consist of positions for subject clitics, and inflectional prefixes

Contraction (grammar) (3,691 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

e.g., いいじゃん！ (ii jan!) "What, it's fine!" The commonly used particle-verb phrase という (to iu) is often contracted to ～って／～て／～っつー (-tte/-te/-ttsū) to give

Cognitive effects of bilingualism (6,465 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

attachment preference, meaning they attach the modifier to the "higher" verb phrase [shot the son]. This differs from monolingual English speakers who will

LEPOR (1,834 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

evaluation modeling, the phrase structure set, such as noun phrase, verb phrase, prepositional phrase, adverbial phrase are considered during the matching

No-ball (5,279 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

flurries or even imprisonment. It is used both as a noun-phrase and a verb-phrase, "The Umpire will no-ball you ..." Pakistan cricket spot-fixing scandal

John Grinder (2,162 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

for the pronoun. They argued that the syntactic structure of a deleted verb phrase (VP) is complete. Edward Klima, doctoral adviser to both Postal and Grinder

Pohnpeian language (3,970 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

acceptable sentence structures is more generally (1) noun phrase, (2) verb phrase (3) other noun phrases, where the contents of the leading noun phrase

Agglutination (5,082 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

modify it and subject determines prefixes of other elements in the same verb phrase. For example, the Swahili nouns -toto ("child") and -tu ("person") fall

Verb-initial word order (2,611 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Verb phrase in X-bar structure with a right specifier.

Torres Strait Creole (3,814 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of fairly recent development, and is in origin an abbreviation of the verb phrase form VERB-e em, where the cross referencing pronoun em and the suffix

Western Tlacolula Valley Zapotec (1,844 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

speech Abbreviation Noun N Verb V Article Art. Adjective Adj. Conjunction Conj. Adverb Adv. Preposition Pre. Pronouns Pr. Noun phrase NP Verb phrase VP

Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (3,307 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

into English pronominalization. Matthews and Lees worked on the German verb phrase. On the nature of the linguistic research at MIT in those days, Jerry

Classical Chinese grammar (3,344 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

cardinal numbers can appear before or after the noun they modify. Within a verb phrase, adverbs usually appear before a verb. The language, as analyzed in this

Maya script (5,808 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

columns two blocks wide, with each block corresponding to a noun or verb phrase. The blocks within the columns were read left to right, top to bottom

Musical syntax (3,939 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

that are necessary to build up a sentence like the noun phrase and the verb phrase but looking at a deeper level the structural elements also contain additional

Kokota language (4,759 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

can be a noun, verb, or adjective. The phrase all together acts as a verb phrase. a. do~dou-n̄hau REDUP~be.big-eat do~dou-n̄hau REDUP~be.big-eat 'be a

Crow language (4,140 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

indefinite nonspecific determiner m. Crow has a fairly complex ordering of verb phrase constituents. The following table demonstrates simple constructions of

Transformational grammar (4,854 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

as "S → NP VP" (a sentence may consist of a noun phrase followed by a verb phrase) etc., which could be used to generate grammatical sentences with associated

Hawaiian language (7,702 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

relative positions, that indicate tense–aspect–mood. Some examples of verb phrase patterns: ua VERB – perfective e VERB ana – imperfective ke VERB nei

Unaccusative verb (3,557 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

same on the surface. They both include a noun phrase (NP) followed by a verb phrase (VP) when produced. In generative grammar, an unaccusative verb is analysed

Quechuan languages (9,205 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Linguistics Club, 1982. Muysken, Pieter. Syntactic Developments in the Verb Phrase of Ecuadorian Quechua. Lisse: Peter de Ridder Press, 1977. ISBN 90-316-0151-9

David W. McAlpin (489 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

(1): 89–101. doi:10.2307/412012. McAlpin, David (1972). The Malayalam Verb Phrase in a Generative Matrical Framework. University of Wisconsin–Madison [Thesis

Khanty language (2,992 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

example: PPs can come after the verb. Manner adverbs precede the verb. The verb phrase precedes the auxiliary. The possessor precedes the possessed. On the

Haida language (6,662 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

noun phrase (except with the imperative clitic hl(aa) which follows a verb phrase). Independent pronouns are used instead of clitic pronouns when modified

American and British English grammatical differences (4,469 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

American Heritage Book of English Usage. 1996 "pro-predicate do and verb phrase ellipsis". September 27, 2007. Retrieved 7 December 2013. Evelyn Waugh

Old Chinese (7,291 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

verb. Instrumental and place adjuncts were usually placed after the verb phrase. These later moved to a position before the verb, as in the modern language

Anusaaraka (613 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

noun-phrase verb-phrase adjectival-phrase adverbial-phrase preposition conjunctions interjections

Biolinguistics (8,917 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the head, and we call the entire phrase a verb-phrase. There is also a smaller phrase within this verb-phrase, a determiner phrase, "the books" because

Logic (16,838 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

its parts and how they are combined. For example, the meaning of the verb phrase "walk and sing" depends on the meanings of the individual expressions

Formulaic language (3,968 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

listener to correctly predict the onset of a new constituent (Noun Phrase, Verb Phrase), whereas a "Bad Cue" leads the listener to incorrectly predict the onset

Shanghainese (6,984 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

some cases, it is possible to combine two aspect markers into a larger verb phrase. There is no overt marking for mood in Shanghainese, and Zhu (2006) goes

Tough movement (2,595 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Rosenbaum introduced a transformation analysis, in which the object of the verb phrase moves out of the complement sentence and is raised to the main subject

Taiwanese Mandarin (11,511 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

similar fashion. In both Guoyu and Putonghua, 有没有 yǒuméiyǒu can precede a verb phrase to mark a perfective question, as in (1), and in Guoyu, this can be split

Balkan sprachbund (4,888 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Direct and indirect objects are cross-referenced, or doubled, in the verb phrase by a clitic (weak) pronoun, agreeing with the object in gender, number

Newar language (9,311 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Shresthacharya, I. (1976) ‘Some types of reduplication in the Newari verb phrase’, Contributions to Nepalese Studies 3.1: 117–27. —— (1981) ‘Newari root

English determiners (5,676 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

people).: 356 Adjectives can function as a predicative complement in a verb phrase (e.g., that was lovely), but determiners typically cannot (e.g., *that

Voice (grammar) (9,026 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

the different varieties. Mandarin active voice sentences have the same verb phrase structure as English active voice sentences. There is a common active

Toʼabaita language (9,509 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

listed above. Syntactically, the negative subject markers occur in the verb phrase, between the irrealis marker (where present) and preverbal particles

Mekeo language (2,947 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

verb and its various affixes have traditionally been referred to as a 'verb phrase', this construction is more accurately called a "verb word". OLAC has

English subordinators (836 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Peoria). If it is a subordinator then it is the only one that marks a verb phrase, not a clause, as subordinate.: 1185 How is a marginal subordinator

Abenaki language (6,431 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

largely free, being mainly dependent on pragmatic factors. While the verb phrase tends to not have a common, basic order, there are still complementizer

Ken-ichi Takashima (2,347 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Publishing Co.), pp. 405–421. Takashima, Ken-ichi 高嶋謙一. 1988a. “An Emphatic Verb Phrase in the Oracle-Bone Inscriptions,” Bulletin of the Institute of History

Night hag (3,876 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

nightmares in general as well as sleep paralysis is referred to by the verb-phrase khar darakh (written kara darahu), meaning "to be pressed by the Black"

Atsam people (891 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Stool In Kaduna". Daily Trust. Retrieved January 7, 2024. "THE ATSAM VERB PHRASE". Eduproject.com.ng. Retrieved January 7, 2024. "NEGATION IN ATSAM (CHAWAI)

Child development stages (8,095 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Indicates negatives by inserting "no" or "not" before a simple noun or verb phrase: "Not baby." Answers "What are you doing?", "What is this?", and "Where

Southern Athabascan grammar (2,142 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Mescalero -ń or -í, Western Apache -í and Navajo -í, to the end of the verb phrase. For example, in Mescalero the verb ’ént’į́į́ "he/she bewitches him/her"

Attempto Controlled English (2,394 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

phrase (the addressee), followed by a comma, followed by an uncoordinated verb phrase. Furthermore, a command has to end with an exclamation mark. To constrain

List of English words with disputed usage (11,265 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

may meet with opposition; the soldiers met with machine-gun fire), the verb phrase meet with is not in dispute. Disputed usage: I will meet with you tonight

Right node raising (2,599 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

be non-constituents. Clause Constituent Coordination Ellipsis Finite verb Phrase Some prominent sources on RNR are Postal (1974), Hudson (1976), and Hartmann

Otomi language (8,888 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of Santiago Mexquititlan, Queretaro, here is an example of a complex verb phrase with four suffixes and a proclitic: Bi=hon-ga-wi-tho-wa Bi=hon-ga-wi-tho-wa

Vietnamese grammar (6,103 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

this to be a non-classifier use of cái. includes noun phrase modifiers, verb phrase modifiers Nouns may be modified by certain demonstratives that follow

Language and gender (9,750 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

semantic meaning (uh, um, etc.) Verbs (See verb page) Uncertainty Verbs Verb phrase that shows some level of uncertainty ('I'm not sure if...', 'It might

List of sports idioms (6,560 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

20th century"; OED does not. Both seem to suggest, however, that the verb phrase "knock out" or "knock someone out" predates boxing. kayo, K.O. Boxing:

V2 word order (7,840 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

linguistics the consensus has emerged that there is no IP in German. The VP (verb phrase) structure assigns position and functions to the arguments of the verb

Symbolic artificial intelligence (10,775 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Parsing, tokenizing, spelling correction, part-of-speech tagging, noun and verb phrase chunking are all aspects of natural language processing long handled

Language attrition (7,558 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

'regression pattern' cannot be observed. Also, parallels in noun and verb phrase morphology could be present because of the nature of the tests or because

Glossary of English-language idioms derived from baseball (8,961 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"singles". A complete success (opposite of strike out); often used in the verb phrase "hit a home run". OED cites this usage to 1965. "HGTV caught on quickly

Russian grammar (8,229 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

expression of path in Russian. Thus, it is important to consider the whole verb phrase when examining verbs of motion. In some verbs of motion, adding a prefix

Generative second-language acquisition (5,723 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

grammar", in which the development of functional categories develop from Verb Phrase (VP)→ Inflection Phrase (IP)→ Complementizer Phrase (CP). The phases

Tsʼixa language (2,812 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The second group (labelled 'II') attaches to the direct object of the verb phrase and in this way displays an affinity to accusative case. PGNs of series

Uyghur grammar (7,470 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

object, making its relation with the verb closer, and creating an object-verb phrase used in place of a simple verb. For example: كىنو kino film كۆرمەك kör-mek

Latin tenses in commands (semantics) (1,967 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

"Lateinische Grammatik", §209 Relative tense is subordinate to a matrix verb phrase (participles and infinitives). – Aerts, 2018, p.108 or [the state of

Finnish conjugation (4,194 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

plurality and person of the agent. This is followed by another verb or verb phrase in which the verb is in the short from first infinitive (the dictionary

Old Irish grammar (10,921 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

as·rubart past "said", as·béra future "will say"). Before this core "verb phrase" are placed various other preverbal clitic particles, e.g. negative ni-/ní-

Classical Quechua (13,870 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

wasi-m hatun-qa 'it is that house (near you) that is big'. In a negated verb phrase, the evidential particle is encliticised to the negative adverb: warmi-qa

Arabic verbs (7,338 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

varieties. The negation of Arabic verbs varies according to the tense of the verb phrase. In literary Modern Standard Arabic, present-tense verbs are negated

Comparison of Portuguese and Spanish (17,198 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

cantado ('I had sung'). Although there is a strong tendency to use a verb phrase instead in the spoken language, like in Spanish and English (havia cantado)

Latin tenses (semantics) (3,170 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

"Lateinische Grammatik", §209 Relative tense is subordinate to a matrix verb phrase (participles and infinitives). – Aerts, 2018, p.108 or [the state of

List of commonly misused English words (12,485 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

sounds identical to pore, many English speakers use the verb pour in the verb phrase pore over meaning "to meditate or ponder intently." "Commonly Confused

A-not-A question (7,054 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

embedded clause, a subject joined with a prepositional phrase, or a verb phrase containing a DP. This form contains two unique constituents, A and AB

Has Hlai grammar (31,062 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

if the sentence is passive voice, the object can be placed before the verb phrase. Usually, a noun, pronoun or phrase can act as an object; sometimes,