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Monday, January 21st, 2013 @ 10:08AM

A’-Movement

A’-movement refers to movement to non-case-assigning positions for interpretive factors, e.g., wh-movement, quantifier raising, and focus/topic movement. (syntax)

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Monday, January 21st, 2013 @ 10:06AM

A-Movement

A-movement refers to movement from non-case-marked positions to case-assigning positions to check phi-features. It is not driven by interpretive factors. (syntax)

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Monday, January 21st, 2013 @ 10:10AM

Abessive Case

A case morpheme that marks its noun in a relationship of distance from or absence of another noun. (morphology, syntax)

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Monday, January 21st, 2013 @ 10:09AM

Ablative Case

Adposition-like case that shows movement away from a substantive. (syntax)

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Monday, January 21st, 2013 @ 10:11AM

Accusative Case

A case morpheme that marks a noun as being the direct object of the verb. (morphology, syntax)

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Monday, January 21st, 2013 @ 10:13AM

Active

In an active sentence, the subject is the agent of the event while the object is the theme of the event. (syntax)

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Monday, January 21st, 2013 @ 10:13AM

Active Voice

When the agent of the sentence is in the subject position. (syntax)

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Monday, January 21st, 2013 @ 10:14AM

Addessive Case

A case morpheme that marks its noun in a positional relationship to another. (morphology, syntax)

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Monday, January 21st, 2013 @ 10:15AM

Adjective

A syntactic or lexical category that is argued to be universal. It is often distinguished by its morphological shape in comparison to other categories or by its ability to inflect or be modified in ways that other categories cannot. Structurally adjectives can be attributive and be noun adjuncts or be…

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Monday, January 21st, 2013 @ 10:15AM

Adjunct

Optional arguments; sister to X-bar and daughter of another X-bar. (syntax)

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