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• Family
  A '''family''' of languages (a '''language family''') is a group of languages that developed from a common historical A language '''isolate''' is a family of one, such as [[Basque]] or [[Sumerian]].
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• Subcategorization frame
  ...it'' optionally (indicated by the parentheses) selects an NP-complement (a sister-node, as indicated by the square brackets) to its right (indicated by the o * Chomsky, N. 1986a. ''Knowledge of language: its nature, origin and use,'' Praeger, New York.
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• Complement
  ...uration, either A and B are complements of X⁰, or just B (the [[sister]] of X⁰). In English-language linguistics the term ''complement'' in this sense is common only as part of
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• X-bar theory
  '''X-bar theory''' is a [[generative linguistics|generative]] theory of language conceived by [[Noam A. Chomsky]]. It is a theory about the internal structu ...nowiki>[[sister]](s) of X are called the complements of the head), and the sister(s) of X' is/are the specifier(s) (of the phrase). The structure in (ii) emb
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• Tree structure
  ...tures are used as a representation of the constituent structure of natural language expressions. Thus, the tree in (ii) represents the structure of the sentenc ...], [[PF]]) onto each other. All binary relations (such as [[c-command]], [[sister]]hood) are defined over trees. Another term for tree structure is Phrase ma
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• Huddleston and Pullum's (2002) analysis of tense
  (6) His sister has been up Mont Blanc twice. ...ney D., Pullum, Geoffrey K. (2002). ''The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language.'' Cambridge: CUP.
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