Immediate Dominance
A node immediately dominates the nodes just below it. (syntax)
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Imperative
Order or suggest. (semantics)
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Imperfective Aspect
An action is viewed as having internal structure. (semantics)
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Implicational Universals
Implicational universals are linguistic universals that relate a property of a language to another property. The existence of one property serves as the precondition for the other. An example is Greenberg’s Universal 3: ‘Languages with dominant VSO order are always prepositional.’ (typology)
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Impoverishment
The deletion of a morphosyntactic feature before vocabulary insertion. (distributed morphology)
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