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  2. Subjectification (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    The most prominent research on subjectification to date comes from linguists Elizabeth Traugott and Ronald Langacker. [4] In Traugott's view, subjectification is a semasiological process in which a linguistic element's "meanings tend to become increasingly based in the speaker's subjective belief state/attitude toward the proposition".

  3. Subject–object–verb word order - Wikipedia

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    Tamil being a strongly head-final language, the basic word-order is SOV. However, since it is highly inflected, word order is flexible and is used for pragmatic purposes. That is, fronting a word in a sentence adds emphasis on it; for instance, a VSO order would indicate greater emphasis on the verb, the action, than on the subject or the object.

  4. Subject–verb–object word order - Wikipedia

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    In an analytic language such as English, subject–verb–object order is relatively inflexible because it identifies which part of the sentence is the subject and which one is the object. ("The dog bit Andy" and "Andy bit the dog" mean two completely different things, while, in case of "Bit Andy the dog", it may be difficult to determine ...

  5. Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    The root of the words subjectivity and objectivity are subject and object, philosophical terms that mean, respectively, an observer and a thing being observed.The word subjectivity comes from subject in a philosophical sense, meaning an individual who possesses unique conscious experiences, such as perspectives, feelings, beliefs, and desires, [1] [3] or who (consciously) acts upon or wields ...

  6. Subject (grammar) - Wikipedia

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    yesterday wurde was nur only geschlafen. slept Gestern wurde nur geschlafen. yesterday was only slept 'Everybody slept yesterday.' The word gestern 'yesterday' is generally construed as an adverb, which means it cannot be taken as the subject in this sentence. Certain verbs in German also require a dative or accusative object instead of a nominative subject, e.g. Mir me- DAT graut is uneasy ...

  7. Nominative case - Wikipedia

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    In grammar, the nominative case (abbreviated NOM), subjective case, straight case, or upright case is one of the grammatical cases of a noun or other part of speech, which generally marks the subject of a verb, or (in Latin and formal variants of English) a predicative nominal or adjective, as opposed to its object, or other verb arguments.

  8. What influences our subjective age — and why it matters - AOL

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    Overall, subjective age is an excellent reminder that we do have some influence over how and how fast we age. “Remember: Age is just a number, and subjective age is, well, subjective!” says ...

  9. Language pedagogy - Wikipedia

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    Language pedagogy is the discipline concerned with the theories and techniques of teaching language. ... One of which is the teaching of subjective language, where ...