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• Complex NP Constraint
  A '''complex NP constraint''' is one of the conditions on [[transformation]]s in early g This condition accounts for the ungrammaticality of the sentence:
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• Quantifier (in predicate logic)
  ...the combination with the variable they bind: All(x) and ThereIs(y). A more complex use of quantifiers is shown in (ii): which might be the translation of a sentence like ''Every teenage girl adores a rock star''.
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• Idiom
  An '''idiom''' is a complex expression whose meaning cannot be inferred from the meanings of its parts. Idioms are generally inaccessible for syntactic and/or semantic variation: sentence (ii) cannot mean that some people died last week.
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• Gapping
  ...may not be a phrase, it may not occur at the sentence boundary or violate complex NP constraint (Lobeck 1995), the gapped elements must be contextually give * Neijt,A.H. 1979. ''Gapping. A contribution to sentence grammar,'' Foris:Dordrecht
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• Reanalysis (in generative syntax)
  ...position]] at and the [[verb]] ''laughed'' are sometimes reanalyzed as the complex verb ''laughed at'' as in (i)b. ...me an internal one in causative constructions, see (iii), while creating a complex predicate. Both examples are Italian:
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• Propositional logic
  ...lso ''atomic propositions'') are combined with these connectives into more complex [[propositional formula]]s according to the syntax of propositional logic.
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• Construction (in neurocognitive linguistics)
  ...truction''' is at the high end of a scale: There's the simple lexeme, the complex lexeme, the [[mutable lexeme]], then the construction, in which two or mor According to Goldberg, "Constructions which correspond to basic sentence types encode as their central senses event types that are basic to human ex
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• Clause structure in Skolt Saami
  This article gives an overview of the [[Syntax]] of simple and complex clauses in the [[Skolt Saami]] language. In this example the verb is right at the begiinning of the sentence as well as at the end.
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• Tenses of English
  Some linguists have argued against regarding a sentence like ''We will/'ll miss the train'' as a combination of the present + the v ...hat this tense has two relative components; Declerck calls this tense a '[[complex relative tense]]' (2006: 25).
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• Operational plausibility
  2. Multiple parallel interpretation of (many) complex lexemes (cf. Müller 2000, Lamb 1999: 184-197). For example, the Chinese co 6. Complex associations in slang lexeme formation. Eble (2000) gives the following exa
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• Coherence
  Sentence (1) contains a slight vestige of cohesion (as exophoric reference).In (2), ...refore, cohesion), as show by Brown & Yule (1993: 223-270). Each text is a complex message system enabling communication between producer and recipient. The l
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• Affixes
  ...it’s the morphemes which bear meaning. For an affix which is a part complex morpheme, this view is somewhat misleading. For such examples see [[simulfi ...ctically unseparable part of the X⁰. The following [[Lai Chin]] sentence consists of one [[grammatical word]] having three affixes, but phonological
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• Tsez
  ...'. There are no vowel clusters. It is an [[agglutinative language]] with a complex morphology. Suffixes are either '''C''', '''V''', '''CV''', '''VC''' or ''' ...means that it makes no distinction between the subject of an intransitive sentence and the object of a transitive one — both are marked with the ergative su
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• S.-Y. Kuroda/publications
  1978. Case-marking, cannonical sentence patterns and counter equi in Japanese. In J. Hinds and I. Haward (eds.), Pr 2003b. Complex predicates and predicate raising. Lingua 113: 447-480.
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