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Relative Pronoun
A morpheme that introduces a relative clause and encodes agreement with the head noun. (syntax)
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Relativizer
An invariant morpheme that signals a relative clause. (syntax)
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Simple Sentence
A simple sentence is a sentence with exactly one clause. (syntax)
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Structural Ambiguity
Structural ambiguity arises when two or more different syntactic structures can be assigned to one string of words. (syntax)
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V2 (Verb-Second) Word Order
A syntactic word order characterized by a full verb always appearing as the second element of independent clauses. The first element varies according to topicalization, and analysis of subordinate clauses may reveal that a V2 structure is derived from an underlying SOV word order. Example V2 languages are Germanic (besides…
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Word Order
The surface, linear realization of phrases and clauses. This is often topologically characterized by the canonical order of a language’s major constituents (i.e. SVO, SOV VSO etc…) (syntax)
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Word Order Correlations
Phrases in a given language tend to be consistently head-initial or consistently head-final. (typology)
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