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  2. Light verb - Wikipedia

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    NEG liyan heart nga-la-ma 1 - IRR -put Arra liyan nga-la-ma NEG heart 1-IRR-put "I don’t want to." In a case such as the above, liyan ' heart ' is the preverb containing most of the semantic content. Likewise with goo ' hit ' in the following example: garr rub nga-na-m-boo-gal 1 - TR - PST -hit- REC garr nga-na-m-boo-gal rub 1-TR-PST-hit-REC 'I rubbed him (to stop his pain)' Jingulu ...

  3. Sentence diagram - Wikipedia

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    In a Reed–Kellogg diagram, the vertical dividing line that crosses the base line corresponds to the binary division in the constituency-based tree (S → NP + VP), and the second vertical dividing line that does not cross the baseline (between verb and object) corresponds to the binary division of VP into verb and direct object (VP → V + NP).

  4. Lexical verb - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics a lexical verb or main verb is a member of an open class of verbs that includes all verbs except auxiliary verbs. Lexical verbs typically express action, state, or other predicate meaning. In contrast, auxiliary verbs express grammatical meaning. The verb phrase of a sentence is generally headed by a lexical verb. [1]

  5. Grammatical relation - Wikipedia

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    A tree diagram of English functions. In linguistics, grammatical relations (also called grammatical functions, grammatical roles, or syntactic functions) are functional relationships between constituents in a clause. The standard examples of grammatical functions from traditional grammar are subject, direct object, and indirect object.

  6. Constituent (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    The two diagrams thus disagree concerning the status of do, diagrams, show, and do these diagrams show us, the phrase structure diagram showing them as constituents and the dependency grammar diagram showing them as non-constituents. To determine which analysis is more plausible, one turns to the tests for constituents discussed above.

  7. Stretched verb - Wikipedia

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    Some definitions may place further restrictions on the construction: restricting the light verb to one of a fixed list; restricting the occurrence of articles, prepositions, or adverbs within the complex phrase; requiring the eventive noun to be identical or cognate with a synonymous simple verb, or at least requiring the stretched verb to be ...

  8. Webster's Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    5th: 1936; 6th: 1949; 7th: 1963; 8th: 1973; 9th: 1983; 10th: 1993; 11th: 2003; Though there has not been a fully-revised new edition of the Collegiate dictionary since the release of the 11th edition in 2003, new words and senses, like Bitcoin and ransomware, are added into new prints of the dictionary on a regular basis to meet the current ...

  9. Serial verb construction - Wikipedia

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    The serial verb construction, also known as (verb) serialization or verb stacking, is a syntactic phenomenon in which two or more verbs or verb phrases are strung together in a single clause. [1] It is a common feature of many African , Asian and New Guinean languages.