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Suppletion

A word having inflected forms from multiple unrelated stems

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Plurale tantum

Noun that appears only in the plural form

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Periodic sentence

Sentence style

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Suffixaufnahme

Linguistic phenomenon

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Switch-reference

Concept in linguistics

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Cognate object
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Pejorative suffix

Suffixes forming insults in various languages

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Block quotation

Specially typeset quotation in document

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Adverbial complement

Adverbials (grammar) required to complete the meaning of a verb or sentence

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Extended projection principle
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Echo answer

Way of answering a yes/no question

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Loose sentence

Type of sentence

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Grammar Nazi

Pejorative for someone who excessively criticizes grammar

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Reciprocal pronoun

Pronoun that indicates a relationship which is reciprocal

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Preverb

Verb prefix in Caucasian languages

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Underspecification
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Antithetic parallelism

Rhetorical device

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Question

Request for information

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Prenoun
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Article (grammar)

Word used with a noun to indicate the type of reference being made by the noun

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Adpositional phrase

Phrase modifying a lexical item

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Trace erasure principle
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Case in tiers
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Supine

Form of verbal noun used in some languages

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Possessive

Grammatical use indicating possession

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Intensifier

Linguistic modifier which enhances the word it modifies

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Projection principle

Aspect of generative grammar theory in linguistics

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Attraction (grammar)

Type of grammatical error

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Clitic doubling

Phenomenon where clitic pronouns appear together with the noun phrases that they refer to

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Adverbial phrase

Type of phrase in grammar

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Case government

Grammatical term

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Branching (linguistics)

Analysis of sentence structure

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Adjective phrase

Type of phrase

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Function word

Words supplying mainly grammatical information, rather than content information

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Adverbial clause

English language grammar

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Final clause

Dependent adverbial clause expressing purpose

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Feature structure
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Noun

Part of speech that names an object or set of objects

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Grammar Explorer

Language learning resource

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Intensive word form

None

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Functional discourse grammar
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Nominal TAM
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Parallelism (grammar)

Concept in grammar

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Morphosyntactic alignment

Grammatical relationship between arguments

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Dative shift

Shifting sentence forms with two-object verbs

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Comparative sentence

Syntactic construction that serves to express a comparison

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Parataxis

Literary technique

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Possession (linguistics)

Aspect of linguistics representing subordinate relationships between things

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Possessive determiner

Determiner which modifies a noun by attributing possession

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Polypersonal agreement

Grammatical feature of certain languages

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