Glossary
De Arbres
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This page lists the English terms for the basic notions used in formal syntax. The active links send toward pages of definitions and explanations, illustrated by Breton data.
For the list of these terms in French, browse the glossaire in French.
A
- A-bar movement
- Absorption
- A Condition on binding
- Accusative
- Adjacency constraint
- Adjective
- Adjunct, Adjunction
- Adverb
- Adverbial clause
- Affix
- Agent
- Agreement
- Allomorph
- Analytic verb
- A movement
- Anaphora
- Analytic tense
- Analytic verb
- Antecedent
- Anteposition
- Antipassive
- A position
- Applicative
- Apposition
- Argument
- Argumental structure
- Aspect
- Auxiliary
B
- Barrier
- Benefactive
- B Condition on binding
- Binding theory
- Bidialectal speaker
- Bilingual, bilingualism
- Binding
- Bipartite negation
- Borrowing
C
- Case assigning prepositions
- Case system
- Case filter
- Category
- Causative
- C-command
- C Condition on binding
- Chain
- Clause
- Cleft
- Clitic
- Code-switching
- Co-indexation
- Collective nouns
- Common noun
- Communication
- Competence
- Complement
- Complementarity Principle
- Complementizer
- Completive
- Compound words
- Concessive
- Conjunction
- Consecutive
- Consonant mutation
- Constituency, Constituent
- Contact
- Copy
- Critical period for language acquisition
- Contrastive, Contrastive focus
- Control verb
- Coreferent, Coreferential
- Coordination
- Copula
- Corpus
- Count nouns
- Creole
- Cyclicity
D
- Datif
- Default
- Defective, defectivity
- Definite
- Deictic
- Denote
- Deontic
- Derivation
- Determiner
- Detransitive
- Devoicing
- Dialect
- Dialectology
- Diglossia
- Diminutive
- Direct Case
- Discontinuous negation
- Disjunction
- Dislocation
- Displacement
- Distribution
- Distributive, Distributivity
- Ditransitive
- Dominance
- Doubling
- DP
- Dual
E
- Elicitation
- Elision
- "Elsewhere Condition"
- Ellipsis
- Embedded, Embedded clause
- Empty pronoun
- Episodicity, Episodic
- Epistemicity
- Ergativity
- Evidentiality
- Exceptional Case Marking
- Excorporation
- Existential copula
- Exocentricity
- Experienceur
- Expletive
- Expletive negation
- Extraction
F
- Feature checking
- Feature
- Floating quantifier
- Focus
- Free (cf. binding)
- Fronting
- Frozen agreement
- Functionnal
G
- Gap
- Gender
- Generative
- Genericity, Generic reading
- Givenness
- Goal
- Government and Binding theory
- Grammaticalisation
- Grammaticality
H
I
- Identity, Sloppy identity, Strict identity
- Idiolect
- Idiomatism
- Imperative
- Imperfective
- Inchoative
- Incise
- Incorporation
- Indefinite
- Independent clause
- Indicative
- Infinitive clauses
- Infinitive verbs
- Information structure
- Ingressive
- Insertion
- In situ
- Instrumental
- Intensifier
- Intermediate projection
- Internal plural
- International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
- Interrogative
- Intonation
- Intransitive
- Islands for movement
- Iterativity
K
L
- Landing site
- Langage acquisition
- Last Resort Principle
- Left-dislocation
- Lessener
- Level of representation
- Lexical
- License
- Light-verb
- Linguistic continuum
- Linguistic Determinism
- Linguistic Relativity
- Local domain
- Local, Locality
- Logical form (LF)
- Logophoricity, Logophoric
- Long distance agreement
- Long distance extraction
- Long head movement, (LHM)
M
- Malefactive
- Mass nouns
- Matrix sentence
- Maximal projection
- Merge
- Meteorological pronoun
- Middle field
- Minimalist program
- Minimizer
- Minimal projection
- Modal
- Modal constructions
- Modification
- Module
- Mood
- Morpheme
N
- Natural language processing
- Natural languages
- Natural speech processing
- Negation
- Negative concord
- Negative evidence
- Negative polarity item, (NPI)
- Negative word
- Neuter
- Node
- Noun
- Null subject
- Number
O
P
- Parsing
- Particle o
- Patient
- Perfective
- Periphery
- Person
- Person/case constraint (PCC)
- Phase
- Phonological form (PF)
- Phonology
- Pidgin
- Plural
- Pluralia tantum
- Poor agreement
- Possessor
- Possessive pronoun
- Possessive determiner
- Positive polarity item, (PPI)
- Postpositions
- Pragmatics
- Predicate
- Prefix
- Prepositions
- Proclitic
- PRO, pro
- Pronoun
- Projection
- Proper noun
- Prosody
- [(Protasis]]
Q
R
- Raising
- Raising verb
- Reciprocal
- Reconstruction
- Recursivity
- Reduplication
- Reference
- Referential expression
- Referential index
- Relevance
- Restrictivity
- Resultative
- Resumptivity
- Resumptivity of the subject
- Rich agreement
- Right-dislocation
- Right Hand Head Rule (RHHR)
- Root
- Root clauses
S
- Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
- Scope
- Scrambling
- Selection
- Semantic agreement
- Singulative
- Small clause
- Specificity, Specific
- Specifier
- Speech level
- Standardization
- Stylistic Fronting
- Subject
- Substantivization
- Suffix
- Superlative
- SVO
- Syntactic head
- Syntactic agreement
- Syntactic movement
- Syntactic structure
- Synthetic verb
- Synthetic tense
T
- Tense
- That-trace effect
- Thematic criterion
- Thematic grid
- Thematic rôle
- Thematic structure
- Topic
- Trace
- Transformation
- Transitive
- Tree
- Typology
U
V
- V1, V2, V3
- Verbal particle (rannig)
- Verb doubling
- Vocative
- Vocative pronoun
- Voicing
- Volitive
- VP fronting
- VSO
W, X, Y, Z
Bibliographie pédagogique
- Doetjes, Jenny. 2006. Introduction à la phonologie française, matériaux de cours, Département de français, Université de Leyde.
- Doetjes, Jenny & Johan Rooryck. 2006. Introduction à la morphologie française, matériaux de cours, Département de français, Université de Leyde.
- Doetjes, Jenny. 2003. Introduction à la syntaxe française, matériaux de cours, Département de français, Université de Leyde.
- Radford, A. 1997. Syntax, a Minimalist introduction, Cambridge University Press.
- Lexicon of Linguistics, Johan Kerstens, Eddy Ruys, Joost Zwarts (éds.), Utrecht institute of Linguistics OTS, 1996-2001.
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