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• Voice (in grammar)
  ...ng the [[semantic role]]s over [[grammatical relation]]s. The prototypical categories are [[active voice]] and [[passive voice]], but a few others have been adde ===Categories===
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• Syntactic category
  ...CATEGORIES. In fact, it would be safe to say that the nature of syntactic categories is at the very heart of grammar."'' (Croft 1991:36) ...ategories]] such as [[noun phrase]] and [[verb phrase]] are also syntactic categories.
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• Agree
  ...ctive categories eliminating the uninterpretable features activating these categories.
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• Mood
  ...[[verb]]s (mood, [[tense]], [[aspect]], and [[modality]]). The most common categories are associated with the way sentences are used: [[indicative]] (statement),
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• Morphosyntactic category
  ...e refer to the intersecting categories of the word...as '''morphosyntactic categories''' specifically."'' (Matthews 1974:66)
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• Dimension
  ...exclusive'''. For instance, the English present and past tenses [...] are categories of the dimension 'tense'."'' (Haspelmath 2002:61)
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• Empty category
  ...hey are base-generated, viz. [[pro]] and [[PRO]]. Different types of empty categories behave differently with respect to the [[Empty category principle]] and [[b
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• Category (system)
  ...e refer to the intersecting categories of the word...as '''morphosyntactic categories''' specifically."'' (Matthews 1974:66)
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• Mixed category
  properties of two distinct categories, such as noun and verb, while being headed by a single word. Lefebvre, Claire & Muysken, Pieter 1988. ''Mixed categories: nominalizations in Quechua.'' Dordrecht: Kluwer.
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• Person
  ===Inflectional categories=== The term ''person'' and the names for the three main categories (first, second, third) go back to the ancient Greek grammarians.
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• Lexical category
  ...as [[adposition]]s, [[subordinator]]s, [[adverb]]s, etc., whereas lexical categories only comprise nouns, verbs and adjectives. Thus, ''lexical category'' is of Baker, Mark. 2003. ''Lexical categories: nouns, verbs and adjectives.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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• Covert category
  C]overt categories in English are e.g. [[mass noun|mass]] vs. [[count noun]], [[animacy]], [[s ...her languages as well, if we have the subtlety it takes to discover covert categories."'' (Fillmore 1968:3)
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• Empty Category Principle
  ...-bound traces (i.e. NP-traces and variables), but not for pronominal empty categories like [[pro]] and [[PRO]].
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• Portal:Tense and aspect
  == '''<div style="font-size:80%;">Temporal categories</div>''' == == '''<div style="font-size:80%;">Aspectual categories</div>''' ==
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• Functional projection
  ...whether there is a limit to the number of [[functional category|functional categories]]. It seems reasonable to assume that their projection is in some sense par * Ouhalla, J. 1990. ''Functional categories and parametric variation,'' diss. UCL.
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• Gamma-marking
  ...ng in a non-argument position it is assumed to take place at [[LF]]. Empty categories that are not properly governed receive the feature [-gamma] by default. In
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• Number
  ===Inflectional categories===
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• Silverstein 1976
  ...ierarchy of features and ergativity. In: Dixon, R.M.W. (ed.) ''Grammatical categories in Australian languages.'' New Jersey: Humanities Press, 112-171.<noinclude
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• Category-system
  A '''category-system''' is a set of inflectional categories that have closely related meanings or functions and that generally do not c ...m for category-systems. Most linguists seem to call them simply [[category|categories]]. However, this term is also used for the individual "subcategories" (such
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• GOLD
  ...r descriptive linguistics. It gives a formalized account of the most basic categories and relations used in the scientific description of human language.
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• X-bar schema
  ...tion that all major syntactic categories N, V, A, P, as well as functional categories such as I(NFL) and C(OMP) essentially project the same structure:
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• Auxiliary verb
  ...ategories, but also not infrequently temporal, negative polarity, or voice categories."'' (Anderson 2006:4-5)
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• Funktionale Kategorie
  *Benmamoun, E. 2000. ''The Feature Structure of Functional Categories. A Comparative Study of Arabic Dialects.'' Oxford. *Borsley, R.(Hg.)2000.'' The Nature and Function of Syntactic Categories.'' New York.
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• Proper government
  ...that are usually considered proper governors for a category [[alpha]], are categories that are coindexed with alpha (see [[antecedent government]]) and [[head]]s
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• Domain (Syntax)
  ...of X (a head) is the set of nodes UP, ZP, WP, YP, and H and whatever these categories dominate. XP₁, XP₂, X', X₁ and X<sub>2</su
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• Gram
  *[[Bybee, Joan L.]] 1986. On the nature of grammatical categories: a diachronic perspective. ''Eastern States Conference on Linguistics'' 2:
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• Major category
  ...''major category''' used to be used for the [[syntactic category|syntactic categories]] noun, verb and adjective (Chomsky 1965, 1973). Currently, the term [[lexi
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• Minimal residue
  In (i), the residue of X is ZP, UP, WP, H and whatever these categories dominate. The minimal residue of X is just {ZP, UP, WP, H}. The minimal res
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• 2AFC discrimination
  ...rced choice discrimination''. The possible stimuli S1 and S2 come from two categories. Both alternatives are presented on every trial. The subjects' response ind
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• Tone language
  ...languages use tonal contrasts to distinguish word meanings or grammatical categories (such as tense).
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• Substantive universal
  ...the distinctive features of phonology, as listed in Chomsky & Halle 1968), categories (such as noun, verb, adjective, as in Baker 2003), or even rules (such as [
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• Path Containment Condition
  * Pesetsky, D. 1982. ''Paths and categories,'' diss. MIT.
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• Prototypenkonzept
  *[[Rosch, Eleanor]]. 1973. Natural Categories. ''Cognitive Psychology 4/73'', 328-350.
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• X-bar theory
  ..., V, P, the so-called lexical categories (see [[lexical category]]). These categories can be characterized as follows in terms of the features [±N] (substanti ...gories. The X-bar system can be extended to clausal structures. Functional categories like I ( [[INFL]]) and C ( [[COMP]]) are also considered to be values of X.
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• Cross-categorial operators
  The examples show some of the categories that ''and'' can occur with.
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• Auxiliation
  *[[Émile Benveniste|Benveniste, Émile]]. 1968. "Mutations of linguistic categories." In: Lehmann, Winfred P. & Malkiel, Yakov (eds.) ''Directions for historic
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• S-selection
  * Ouhalla, J. 1990. ''Functional categories and parametric variation,'' diss. UCL. * Pesetsky, D. 1982. ''Paths and categories,'' diss. MIT.
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• Specifier-head agreement
  ...spec-head agreement has been extended to [[functional category|functional categories]] other than IP.
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• Connectedness
  *Pesetsky, D. 1982. Paths and categories. Diss. MIT.
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• Complementarity
  ...e, '''complementarity''' is a relationship between two sets (or [[category|categories]], classes) that do not overlap, i.e. they have no element in common. In li
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• Coordinate Structure Constraint
  *Pesetsky, D. 1982. ''Paths and categories.'' Diss. MIT.
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• Absolute-relative tense
  Absolute-relative tenses are temporal categories that locate a situation both the some other situation (or [[topic time]]) a
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• ID/LP rules
  ...which ''X'' dominates the other categories, no matter in which order these categories appear. An LP-rule restrains the set of local trees licenced by an ID-rule:
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• Adverb
  ...that adverbs form a distinct category, ADV, because - unlike the [[lexical categories]] - they do not project a [[phrase]] in the sense of [[X-bar-theory]]. Sinc
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• AGR
  *Ouhalla, J. 1990. Functional categories and parametric variation. Diss. UCL.
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• Word class
  (other categories of lexemes that are sometimes regarded as word classes:)
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• Control Theory
  *Bouchard, D. 1984. On the content of empty categories. Dordrecht: Foris.
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• Residue
  In (i), the residue of X is ZP, UP, WP, H and whatever these categories dominate.
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• Tense
  ==Classification of temporal categories== ...after (perfect) and before (prospective). Accordingly, twelve tense-aspect categories can be distinguished:
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• Reichenbach's (1947) theory of tense
  ...e reference point R relative to the time of the event E corresponds to the categories ‘anterior’ (E-R), ‘posterior’ (R-E) and ‘simple’ (E,R; cf. Reic
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