A list of phenomena in
syntax
In linguistics, syntax ( ) is the study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences. Central concerns of syntax include word order, grammatical relations, hierarchical sentence structure (constituenc ...
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Anaphora
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Agreement
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Answer ellipsis
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Antecedent-contained deletion
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Binding
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Case
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Clitic
In morphology and syntax, a clitic ( , backformed from Greek "leaning" or "enclitic"Crystal, David. ''A First Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics''. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1980. Print.) is a morpheme that has syntactic characteristics of a ...
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Control
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Coreference
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Differential Object Marking
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Discontinuity
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Do-support
''Do''-support (sometimes referred to as ''do''-insertion or Periphrasis, periphrastic ''do'') in English grammar is the use of the auxiliary verb ''do'' (or one of its inflected forms, e.g. does) to form Negation (linguistics), negated clauses an ...
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Dummy pronouns
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Ellipsis
The ellipsis (, plural ellipses; from , , ), rendered , alternatively described as suspension points/dots, points/periods of ellipsis, or ellipsis points, or colloquially, dot-dot-dot,. According to Toner it is difficult to establish when t ...
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Ergative verb
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Exceptional case-marking
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Existential clauses
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Expletives
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Extraposition
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Gapping
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Heavy NP shift
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Inverse copula sentences
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Movement paradoxes
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Negative inversion
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Non-configurational language
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Parasitic gaps
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Pied-piping
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Pro-drop
A pro-drop language (from "pronoun-dropping") is a language in which certain classes of pronouns may be omitted when they can be pragmatically or grammatically inferable. The precise conditions vary from language to language, and can be quite ...
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Pseudogapping
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Raising (linguistics)
Raising may refer to:
*Raising (syntax), a syntactic construction
*Raising (sound change), a sound change
*Raising (metalworking), a metalworking technique
*Barn raising, a community event to erect the wooden framework for a building
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Reciprocal (grammar)
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Reflexive pronoun
A reflexive pronoun is a pronoun that refers to another noun or pronoun (its antecedent) within the same sentence.
In the English language specifically, a reflexive pronoun will end in ''-self'' or ''-selves'', and refer to a previously n ...
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Reflexive verb
In grammar, a reflexive verb is, loosely, a verb whose direct object is the same as its subject, for example, "I wash myself". More generally, a reflexive verb has the same semantic agent and patient (typically represented syntactically by the s ...
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Right node raising
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Scrambling
Scrambling is a mountaineering term for ascending steep terrain using one's hands to assist in holds and balance.''New Oxford American Dictionary''. It can be described as being between hiking and climbing, rock climbing. "A scramble" is a relat ...
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Shifting
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Sluicing
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Small clause
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Stripping
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Subject-auxiliary inversion
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Subject-verb inversion
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Topicalization
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Tough movement
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Unaccusative verb
In linguistics, an unaccusative verb is an intransitive verb whose grammatical subject is not a semantics, semantic agent (grammar), agent. In other words, the subject does not actively initiate, or is not actively responsible for, the action expre ...
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V2 word order
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Verb phrase ellipsis
In linguistics, Verb phrase ellipsis (VP ellipsis or VPE) is a type of Ellipsis (linguistics), grammatical omission where a verb phrase is left out (elided) but its meaning can still be inferred from context. For example, "''She will sell sea shell ...
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Wh-movement
In linguistics, wh-movement (also known as wh-fronting, wh-extraction, or wh-raising) is the formation of syntactic dependencies involving interrogative words. An example in English is the dependency formed between ''what'' and the object position ...
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