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2. Grammatical person - Wikipedia

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   First person includes the speaker (English: I, we), second person is the person or people spoken to (English: your or you), and third person includes all that are not listed above (English: he, she, it, they). [1] It also frequently affects verbs, and sometimes nouns or possessive relationships.

3. Syntactic change - Wikipedia

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   Syntactic change affects grammar in its morphological and syntactic aspects and is one of the types of change observed in language change. If one pays close attention to evolutions in the realms of phonology and morphology, it becomes evident that syntactic change can also be the result of profound shifts in the shape of a language.

4. Shifting (syntax) - Wikipedia

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   These examples again illustrate shifting that is motivated by the relative weight of the constituents involved. The heavier of the two constituents prefers to appear further to the right. The example sentences above all have the shifted constituents appearing after their head (see below). Constituents that precede their head can also shift, e.g.

5. Transformational grammar - Wikipedia

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   In linguistics, transformational grammar (TG) or transformational-generative grammar (TGG) was the earliest model of grammar proposed within the research tradition of generative grammar. [1] Like current generative theories, it treated grammar as a system of formal rules that generate all and only grammatical sentences of a given language.

6. Dative shift - Wikipedia

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   In linguistics, dative shift refers to a pattern in which the subcategorization of a verb can take on two alternating forms, the oblique dative form or the double object construction form. In the oblique dative (OD) form, the verb takes a noun phrase (NP) and a dative prepositional phrase (PP), the second of which is not a core argument .

7. Drift (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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   For example, in the English language, there was the Great Vowel Shift, a chain shift of long vowels first described and accounted for in terms of drift by Jespersen (1860–1943). Another example of drift is the tendency in English to eliminate the -er comparative formative and to replace it with the more analytic more.

8. Functional shift - Wikipedia

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   In linguistics, functional shift occurs when an existing word takes on a new syntactic function.If no change in form occurs, it is called a zero derivation.For example, the word like, formerly only used as a preposition in comparisons (as in "eats like a pig"), is now also used in the same way as the subordinating conjunction as in many dialects of English (as in "sounds like he means it").

9. Nominal group (functional grammar) - Wikipedia

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   In systemic functional grammar (SFG), a nominal group is a group of words that represents or describes an entity, for example The nice old English police inspector who was sitting at the table with Mr Morse. Grammatically, the wording "The nice old English police inspector who was sitting at the table with Mr Morse" can be understood as a ...