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  2. Grammatical modifier - Wikipedia

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    Quantifying modification specifies the quantity (or number/cardinality) of a referent: e.g. two boxes, several cars. Localizing (or anchoring) modification specifies the location of a referent: e.g. this car, the house on the corner. Discourse-referential modification specifies the status of the referent in the discourse universe: e.g. the/a car.

  3. Syntactic Structures - Wikipedia

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    Syntactic Structures is an important work in linguistics by American linguist Noam Chomsky, originally published in 1957.A short monograph of about a hundred pages, it is recognized as one of the most significant and influential linguistic studies of the 20th century.

  4. Syntactic change - Wikipedia

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    The effect of phonological change can trigger morphological reanalysis, which can then engender changes in syntactic structures. Syntactic change is a phenomenon creating a shift in language patterns over time and is subject to cyclic drift. [1] The morphological idiosyncrasies of today are seen as the outcome of yesterday's regular syntax. [2]

  5. Merge (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    As it is commonly understood, standard Merge adopts three key assumptions about the nature of syntactic structure and the faculty of language: sentence structure is generated bottom-up in the mind of speakers (as opposed to top down or left to right) all syntactic structure is binary branching (as opposed to n-ary branching)

  6. Projection principle - Wikipedia

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    The Projection Principle simply states that when notating the syntactic structure of a sentence such as “John runs fast.”, we must specify at every level what lexical category each piece of the sentence belongs to [2] Two common ways of notating the syntactic structure of a sentence under X-Bar Theory include bracketing and tree drawing.

  7. X-bar theory - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, X-bar theory is a model of phrase structure and a theory of syntactic category formation [1] that proposes a universal schema for how phrases are organized. . It suggests that all phrases share a common underlying structure, regardless of their specific category (noun phrase, verb phrase, etc

  8. Syntactic parsing (computational linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Syntactic parsing is one of the important tasks in computational linguistics and natural language processing, and has been a subject of research since the mid-20th century with the advent of computers. Different theories of grammar propose different formalisms for describing the syntactic structure of sentences.

  9. Grammar - Wikipedia

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    Syntax refers to the linguistic structure above the word level (for example, how sentences are formed) – though without taking into account intonation, which is the domain of phonology. Morphology, by contrast, refers to the structure at and below the word level (for example, how compound words are formed), but above the level of individual ...