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 @ 10:14AM

Adjacency Pairs

When a person’s first utterance requires that the second person respond in a certain way. (pragmatics)

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

Adposition

A functional/semi-lexical word that is used to show the spatial or temporal relation between two substantives. (syntax)

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Monday, January 21st, 2013 @ 10:16AM

Adverb

A syntactic or lexical category that is not universal. Syntactically they can be thought of as verbal adjuncts even though they can modify whole clauses. They may also be viewed as a type of adjective. (syntax, morphology)

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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2014 @ 11:27AM

Adverbial Clause

A clause that functions as a clausal modifier. (syntax)

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