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A sentence created by Noam Chomsky in his 1957 book “Syntactic Structures.” At the time, some linguists claimed that to study language you had to study meaning in context. Chomsky countered by creating a meaningless, contradictory sentence with grammatical structure, to show that meaning and structure are independent. (syntax)
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Comitative Case
A case morpheme that marks one noun to be in an accompanying relationship with another. (morphology, syntax)
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Comparative Form
The modification or form of an adjective that is used to show a relationship between two entities where one is more of something than the other. (morphology)
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Complement
The obligatory argument of a head; sister to a head. (syntax)
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Complement Clause
A clause that functions as an argument of a predicate. (syntax)
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Complementizer
A subordinating conjunction that introduces an embedded clause. (syntax)
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Complex Sentence
A complex sentence is a sentence with more than one clause. (syntax)
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Complex Word
A word consisting of more than one morpheme. (morphology)
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Compound
A word that is composed of more than one free root. (morphology)
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Conceptual Categories
The concepts that a language consistently encodes through a systematic variation in form. (morphology)
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