10 relations: Anaphora (linguistics), Binding (linguistics), Constituent (linguistics), Extraposition, Generic antecedent, Grammar, Lucien Tesnière, Pro-form, Relative clause, Syntactic category.
Anaphora (linguistics)
In linguistics, anaphora is the use of an expression whose interpretation depends upon another expression in context (its antecedent or postcedent).
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Binding (linguistics)
In linguistics, binding is the distribution of anaphoric elements (pronouns and other pro-forms).
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Constituent (linguistics)
In syntactic analysis, a constituent is a word or a group of words that functions as a single unit within a hierarchical structure.
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Extraposition
Extraposition is a mechanism of syntax that alters word order in such a manner that a relatively "heavy" constituent appears to the right of its canonical position.
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Generic antecedent
Generic antecedents are representatives of classes, referred to in ordinary language by another word (most often a pronoun), in a situation in which gender is typically unknown or irrelevant.
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Grammar
In linguistics, grammar (from Greek: γραμματική) is the set of structural rules governing the composition of clauses, phrases, and words in any given natural language.
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Lucien Tesnière
Lucien Tesnière (May 13, 1893 – December 6, 1954) was a prominent and influential French linguist.
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Pro-form
In linguistics, a pro-form is a type of function word or expression that stands in for (expresses the same content as) another word, phrase, clause or sentence where the meaning is recoverable from the context.
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Relative clause
A relative clause is a kind of subordinate clause that contains the element whose interpretation is provided by an antecedent on which the subordinate clause is grammatically dependent; that is, there is an anaphora relation between the relativized element in the relative clause and antecedent on which it depends.
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Syntactic category
A syntactic category is a type of syntactic unit that theories of syntax assume.
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