23 relations: Affirmation and negation, Antecedent (grammar), Comparative, Comparison (grammar), Complement (linguistics), Conjunction (grammar), Double negative, Downward entailing, Edward Klima, English grammar, Frans Zwarts, Gilles Fauconnier, Grammatical particle, Idiom, Imperative mood, Indicative conditional, Lexical item, Linguistics, Otto Jespersen, Quantifier (linguistics), Question, Subjunctive mood, Veridicality.
Affirmation and negation
In linguistics and grammar, affirmation and negation (abbreviated respectively and) are the ways that grammar encode negative and positive polarity in verb phrases, clauses, or other utterances.
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Antecedent (grammar)
In grammar, an antecedent is an expression (word, phrase, clause, sentence, etc.) that gives its meaning to a proform (pronoun, pro-verb, pro-adverb, etc.). A proform takes its meaning from its antecedent, e.g. "Ava arrived late because traffic held her up".
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Comparative
In linguistics, the comparative is a syntactic construction that serves to express a comparison between two (or more) entities or groups of entities in quality, or degree.
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Comparison (grammar)
Comparison is a feature in the morphology or syntax of some languages, whereby adjectives and adverbs are inflected or modified to indicate the relative degree of the property defined by the adjective or adverb.
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Complement (linguistics)
In grammar, a complement is a word, phrase or clause that is necessary to complete the meaning of a given expression.
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Conjunction (grammar)
In grammar, a conjunction (abbreviated or) is a part of speech that connects words, phrases, or clauses that are called the conjuncts of the conjoining construction.
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Double negative
A double negative is a grammatical construction occurring when two forms of negation are used in the same sentence.
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Downward entailing
In linguistic semantics, a downward entailing (DE) propositional operator is one that denotes a monotone decreasing function.
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Edward Klima
Edward S. Klima (June 21, 1931 – September 25, 2008) was an eminent linguist who specialized in the study of sign languages.
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English grammar
English grammar is the way in which meanings are encoded into wordings in the English language.
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Frans Zwarts
Frans Zwarts (born 26 March 1949 in The Hague) was the rector magnificus (academic president) of the University of Groningen (2002–2011) and a linguist and professor in the Department of Dutch Language and Culture with a specialty in semantics.
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Gilles Fauconnier
Gilles Fauconnier (born 19 August 1944) is a French linguist, researcher in cognitive science, and author, currently working in the U.S. He is a professor at the University of California, San Diego, in the Department of Cognitive Science.
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Grammatical particle
In grammar the term particle (abbreviated) has a traditional meaning, as a part of speech that cannot be inflected, and a modern meaning, as a function word associated with another word or phrase to impart meaning.
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Idiom
An idiom (idiom, "special property", from translite, "special feature, special phrasing, a peculiarity", f. translit, "one's own") is a phrase or an expression that has a figurative, or sometimes literal, meaning.
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Imperative mood
The imperative mood is a grammatical mood that forms a command or request.
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Indicative conditional
In natural languages, an indicative conditional is the logical operation given by statements of the form "If A then B".
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Lexical item
In lexicography, a lexical item (or lexical unit/ LU, lexical entry) is a single word, a part of a word, or a chain of words (.
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Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of language, and involves an analysis of language form, language meaning, and language in context.
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Otto Jespersen
Jens Otto Harry Jespersen or Otto Jespersen (16 July 1860 – 30 April 1943) was a Danish linguist who specialized in the grammar of the English language.
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Quantifier (linguistics)
In linguistics and grammar, a quantifier is a type of determiner, such as all, some, many, few, a lot, and no, (but not numerals) that indicates quantity.
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Question
A question is a linguistic expression used to make a request for information, or the request made using such an expression.
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Subjunctive mood
The subjunctive is a grammatical mood (that is, a way of speaking that allows people to express their attitude toward what they are saying) found in many languages.
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Veridicality
In linguistics, veridicality is a semantic or grammatical assertion of the truth of an utterance.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarity_item