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Abessive

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AbessiveCase expresses the lack or absence of the referent of the noun it marks. It has the meaning of the English preposition 'without' (Pei and Gaynor 1954: 3,35; Gove, et al. 1966: 3).

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Abilitive

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AbilitiveModality indicates the capacity of an agent to perform some action, regardless of type or condition.

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Ablative

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AblativeCase expresses that the referent of the noun it marks is the location from which another referent is moving. It has the meaning 'from'.

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Absolutive

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AbsolutiveCase in ergative-absolutive languages mark referents that would generally be the subjects of intransitive verbs or the objects of transitive verbs in the translational equivalents of nominative-accusative languages (Anderson 1985: 181; Crystal 1985: 1; Andrews and Avery 1985: 138).

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AbsolutiveAntipassive

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An Antipassive in which the P or logical object is suppressed or overtly absent. (Klaiman 1991:232)

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Accusative

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AccusativeCase in nominative-accusative languages marks certain syntactic functions, usually direct objects (Hartmann and Stork 1972: 3,156; Crystal 1980: 11,246; Andrews and Avery 1985: 75; Anderson; 1985: 181; Mish et al. 1990: 50).

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Actional

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ActionalForce indicates that the speaker or hearer is to undertake some action. Subsumes Imperative, Commissive and Hortatory.

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Active

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Associated with transitivity, when the action is performed by an agent (subject) on another participant (object), or with intransitivity (McIntosh 1984:108). Refers to the category of underived verb forms associated with the basic diathesis: Diathesis=D0:(X=SUBabs/nom) (Y=DIROBacc)
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Adessive

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AdessiveCase expresses that the referent of the noun it marks is the location near/at which another referent exists. It has the meaning of 'at' or 'near' (Crystal 1997: 8).

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Adjective

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An adjective is a part of speech whose members modify nouns. An adjective specifies the attributes of a noun referent. Note: this is one case among many. Adjectives are a class of modifiers (Crystal 1997:8; Mish et al. 1990:56; Payne 1997:63).

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Adposition

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An adposition is a part of speech whose members are of a closed set and occur before or after a complement composed of a noun phrase, noun, pronoun, or clause that functions as a noun phrase and forms a single structure with the complement to express its grammatical and semantic relation to another unit within a clause (Comrie 1989:91; Crystal 1997: 305; Mish et al. 1990:929; Payne 1997:86).

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Adverb

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An adverb, narrowly defined, is a part of speech whose members modify verbs for such categories as time, manner, place, or direction. An adverb, broadly defined, is is a part of speech whose members modify any constituent class of words other than nouns, such as verbs, adjectives, adverbs, phrases, clauses, or sentences. Under this definition, the possible type of modification depends on the class of the constituent being modified (Crystal 1997:11; Mish et al. 1990:59; Payne 1997:69).

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AgentDeletionPassive

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The object of the active retains its old case-marking in the passive, the subject of the active cannot appear in the passive clause, and the passive tends to be semantically active.
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Allative

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AllativeCase expresses motion to or toward the referent of the noun it marks (Pei and Gaynor 1954: 6,9,216; Lyons 1968: 299; Crystal 1985: 1213; Gove, et al. 1966: 55,2359).

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Animate

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One of the two grammatical genders, or classes of nouns, the other being inanimate. Membership in the animate grammatical class is largely based on meanings, in that living things, including humans, animals, spirits, trees, and most plants are included in the animate class of nouns (Valentine 2001: 114).

In Classical Tibetan, three genders are distinguished:Inanimate entitites, animate entities and persons. (Zeisler, p.c.)

In Russian, animacy defines sub-genders of masculine and neuter nouns. Animate nouns take nominative ending in accusative whereas inanimate nouns don't.

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Anticausative

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An intransitive verb is derived from a basically transitive one with the direct object of the transitive verb corresponding to the subject of the intransitive.
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Antipassive

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Derives an intransitive verb from a transitive stem whereby the original agent (only) is cross-referrenced by the absolutive markers on the verb and the original patient, if it appears, is in an oblique phrase. (England 1983:110)

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Article

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An article is a member of a small class of determiners that identify a noun's definite or indefinite reference, and new or given status (Crystal 1997:26; Mish et al. 1990:105).

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AspectFeature

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Aspect is the grammatical encoding of various characteristics of the event referred to in an utterance. Aspect does not form a semantically contiguous class (Comrie 1976; Bybee 1985; Sasse 2002). Aspect indicates the temporal structure of an event, i. e. the way in which the event occurs in time (on-going or completed, beginning, continuing or ending, iterative or semelfactive, etc.). (Bhat 1999:43)

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Assumptive

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Assumptive encodes the fact that the speaker came to believe the content of the expression through a possibly unsound inference procedure. That is, it is at least reasonalbe (Palmer 2001: 6-8).

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Atransitive

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A verb is atransitive if it does not take any argument.
In examples like "It's raining.", the verb is syntactically intransitive but semantically atransitive, thus the pronoun is semantically empty, see ExpletivePronoun. (van Valin/Lapolla 1996)

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AttributiveDemonstrativePronoun

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Demonstrative used as noun modifier.
e.g. "Watch _these_ ants."

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AttributiveInterrogativePronoun

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Interrogative pronoun serving as a noun modifier, e.g.
"_Whose_ sticks are these ?"

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AttributivePossessivePronoun

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061010 added by Christian Chiarcos
e.g. "It's _his_ fault." as opposed to "These are _mine_."

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AttributivePronoun

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According to the definition of Determiner, attributive pronouns can be regarded as Determiners.
AttributivePronoun includes
- attributively used possessive pronouns ("He deleted _his_ files.")
- attributively used demonstrative pronouns ("He deleted _those_ files.")
- attributively used interrogative pronouns ("_Whose_ files have been deleted ?")
- attributively used relative pronouns ("It's him, _whose_ files have been deleted.")
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AttributiveRelativePronoun

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A relative pronoun which serves as a noun modifier.
e.g. "He's the man, _whose_ files disappeared."

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Auditory

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AuditoryEvidentiality encodes the fact that the speaker came to believe the content of the expression through direct auditory experience; they heard it. This does not include spoken reported accounts, but only direct sensory evdience, such as the situation of 'hearing a tree fall' (Palmer 2001: 38).

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Augmentative

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A special form of a noun that signals that the object being referred to is large relative to the usual size of such an object (Crystal 1980: 34).

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AuxillarVerb

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An auxillar verb is a de-semanticized verb used to indicate differences in mood, force, aspect, etc. in analytic verbal constructions.

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Benefactive

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BenefactiveCase expresses that the referent of the noun it marks receives the benefit of the situation expressed by the clause (Crystal 1980: 43; Gove, et al. 1966: 203).

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BoundRoot

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BoundRoot is the class of bound units whose members are common to a set of derived or inflected units, if any, when all bound units are removed. They are not further analyzable into meaningful elements, being morphologically simple. Also, they designate the principle portion of meaning of the unit to which it belongs (Crystal 1985:268; Hartmann and Stork 1972:199; Pei and Gaynor 1954:187-188; Mish et al. 1990:1023; Matthews 1991:64).

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BoundStem

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BoundStem is the class of units whose members are decomposable into a root or roots and a derivational unit, and are only expressed by bound forms in the language (Crystal 1985:287; Mish et al. 1990:1154).

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CardinalNumeral

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A cardinal numeral is a numeral of the class whose members are considered basic in form, are used in counting, and are used in expressing how many objects are referred to (Crystal 1997:52; Mish et al. 1990:207).

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CaseFeature

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Case is a system of marking dependent nouns for the type of relationship (syntactic or semantic) they bear to some other element in the sentence, such as a verb, noun, pronoun, or adposition(Pei and Gaynor 1954: 35; Crystal 1980: 5354; Anderson 1985: 179180; Andrews 1985: 7172; Mish et al. 1990: 211; Kuno 1973: 45; Blake 2001). CaseValue is the class of values that may be associated with the feature instance 'case'. CaseValue is the class of all case types found in language. Case is a system of marking dependent nouns for the type of relationship (syntactic or semantic) they bear to some other element in the sentence, such as a verb, noun, pronoun, or adposition(Pei and Gaynor 1954: 35; Crystal 1980: 5354; Anderson 1985: 179180; Andrews 1985: 7172; Mish et al. 1990: 211; Kuno 1973: 45; Blake 2001).

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Causative

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Expressing the causation of an action.

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Character

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An elementary unit comprising SymbolicStrings. A single Character is also defined as a subclass of SymbolicString itself, e.g., the letter 'a', or a Chinese character.

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Circumposition

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In several European languages, certain combinations of Prepositions and Postpositions are grammatized as Circumpositions, e.g. German "_an_ seiner _statt_" (instead of him).

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Classifier

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A classifier is a partOfSpeech whose members express the classification of a noun (Crystal 1997:61; Mish et al. 1990:246; Payne 1997:107).

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Clause

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A clause is a minimal sentential unit including a predicate, all arguments of the predicate, and all modifiers of the predicate and the arguments.

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Clitic

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Clitic is the class of units which members exhibit syntactic characteristics of a lexical unit, but show evidence of being morphologically bound to another lexical unit, the host, by being unstressed or subject to word-level phonological rules (Crystal 1980:64; Hartmann and Stork 1972:38; Anderson 1985:158; Klavans 1982: xi-xiv, 74-76,83,93-95,100-101; Zwicky 1977:5).

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CloseFuture

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Comitative

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ComitativeCase expresses accompaniment. It carries the meaning 'with' or 'accompanied by' (Anderson, Stephen 1985: 186; Pei and Gaynor 1954: 42;Dixon, R. 1972: 12; Gove, et al. 1966: 455).

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Commissive

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CommisiveForce indicates that the speaker promises or threatens to perform some action (Palmer 2001: 10, 72).

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CommonNoun

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Nouns which are not proper names.

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ComplexSpecification

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A ComplexSpecification is a kind of FeatureSpecification whose value must be a FeatureStructure. This class gives a feature system its recursive properites (Maxwell, Simons, and Hayashi 2001).

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ComplexSyntacticWord

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A syntactic word that is morphologically complex, e.g., a compound, free stem, or inflected lexical item.

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Compound

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A compound has at least two roots. NOTE: more development here.

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ConditionalPhysicalAbilitive

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ConditionalPhysicalAbilitiveModality indicates ability of an agent to perform some action, requiring the presence of conditions external to the agent (Bybee, Perkins, and Pagliuca 1994: 177; Palmer 2001: 76)

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Connective

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Also known as a conjunction, a Connective is a class of parts of speech whose members syntactically link words or larger constituents, and expresses a semantic relationship between them. A conjunction is positionally fixed relative to one or more of the elements related by it, thus distinguishing it from constituents such as English conjunctive adverbs (Crystal 1997:81; Mish et al. 1990:277-278).

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Constituent

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A node in a StructuralDescription.

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Contablative

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ContablativeCase expresses that the referent of the noun it marks is the location from near which another referent is moving. It has the meaning 'from near'.

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Contallative

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ContallativeCase expresses that something is moving toward the vicinity of the referent of the noun it marks. It has the meaning 'towards the vicinity of'.

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Conterminative

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ConterminativeCase expresses the notion of something moving into the vicinity of the referent of the noun it marks, but not through that region. It has the meaning 'moving into the vicinity of'.

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Continuous

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Similar to progressive, however an aspect is continuous versus progressive when it is anchored to non-punctual time reference (Salaberry 2002:264).

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Contlative

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ContlativeCase expresses that the referent of the noun it marks is the location in the vicinity of which another referent is moving. It has the meaning 'in the vicinity of'.

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CoordinatingConnective

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A coordinating connective is a connective that links constituents without syntactically subordinating one to the other (Crystal 1997:93; Mish et al. 1990:288).

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Copula

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Copular verbs are used to denote the identity of entities, states or other nominal or non-nominal expressions.

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CorrelativeConnective

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A correlative connective is either of a pair of coordinating conjunctions (connectives) used in ordered fashion. Typically, one is used immediately before each member of a pair of constituents (Crystal 1997:96; Mish et al. 1990:293).

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CountableNoun

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Nouns which denote distinct entities which can be counted. In English, these are usually to appear with a determiner.

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Dative

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DativeCase marks 1) Indirect objects (for languages in which they are held to exist) or 2) nouns having the role of recipient (as of things given), beneficiary of an action, or possessor of an item (Crystal 1980: 102; Gove, et al. 1966: 577).

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Declarative

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DeclarativeForce indicates that the speaker is informing the hearer about the content of what is said.

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Deductive

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DeductiveEvidentiality encodes the fact that the speaker came to believe the content of the expression through a sound inference procedure. (Palmer 2001: 6-8).

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DefiniteArticle

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An definite article is a part of speech whose members refer to a specific, identifiable entity (or class of entities) (Crystal 1997:107).

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Delative

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DelativeCase expresses motion downward from the referent of the noun it marks (Pei and Gaynor 1954: 53; Gove, et al. 1966: 595).

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Demonstrative

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A demonstrative is a determiner that is used deictically to indicate a referent's spatial, temporal, or discourse location. A demonstrative functions as a modifier of a noun, or a pronoun (Crystal 1997:312; Mish et al. 1990:338).

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DemonstrativeDeterminer

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short form of AttributiveDemonstrativePronoun

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DemonstrativePronoun

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short form of "SubstitutiveDemonstrativePronoun"

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Deontic

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DeonticModality indicates that an agent has permission or is under an obligation to perform some action.

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DeponentMiddle

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Action denotes physical/mental disposition of subject. (Siewierska 1988:257)

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DerivationalUnit

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DerivationalUnit is the class of sublexical units whose members function to derive a new lexical unit from an existing one, by systematically changing the meaning and possibly altering the partOfSpeech feature of the Root or Stem it attaches to (Hartmann and Stork 1972:62; Crystal 1985:89; Mish et al. 1990:342; Bybee 1985:81-82, 99).

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DerivedWord

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A free form of a language consiting of a root or stem plus at least one derivational unit.

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Determiner

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A Determiner is a part of speech whose members belong to a class of noun modifiers and express the reference, including quantity, of a noun (Crystal 1997:112; Mish et al. 1990:346).

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Diminuative

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A special form of a noun that signals that the object being referred to is small relative to the usual size of such an object. In some cases it may be used as a term of endearment (Crystal 1980: 116).

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Direct

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DirectEvidential, also called sensory, encodes the fact that the speaker came to believe the content of the expression by having direct sensory experience of some situation; this does not include hearing about it from someone else (Palmer 2001: 35-36).

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DirectVoice

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Signals that the action proceeds in an ontologically salient way, i.e. that salience is assigned to nominals based on their referen'ts relative real-world capacities to control situations. (Klaiman 1991:32)

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DistributiveNumeral

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A distributive numeral is a numeral which expresses a group of the number specified.

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Ditransitive

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A ditransitive verb is a verb that takes two objects (Crystal 1997:397).

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Dual

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Dual refers to two members of a designated class (Crystal 1997: 265). It typically occurs in a number system together with Singular and LargePlural, or with Singular, Trial and Multal.

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Dubitive

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DubitiveMood indicates a speaker's doubt or uncertainty about a proposition (Palmer 2001).

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Durative

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Events which involve some duration (Bhat 1999:58).

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Elative

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ElativeCase expresses that the referent of the noun it marks is the location out of which another referent is moving. It has the meaning 'out of' (Lyons 1968: 299; Pei and Gaynor 1954: 64; Crystal 1985: 106; Gove, et al. 1966: 730).

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EmphaticPronoun

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An emphatic pronoun is a personal pronoun that is used to emphasize its referent.

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Enclitic

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An enclitic is a clitic that is phonologically joined at the end of a preceding lexical unit to form a single phonological unit (Crystal 1980:64; Pei and Gaynor 1954:65; Mish et al. 1990:409).

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Entity

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The top class.

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Epistemic

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EpistemicModality indicates that a state of affairs is known to be possible or certain (necessary).

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EpistemicNecessity

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EpistemicNecessityModality indicates that the expressed proposition is known to be true. Also known as CategoricalModality (Palmer 2001: 37, 68-69).

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EpistemicPossibility

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EpistemicPossibilityModality indicates that the designated state of affairs is not known not to be true.

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Ergative

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ErgativeCase in ergative-absolutive languages generally identifies the subject of transitive verbs in the translation equivalents of nominative-accusative Languages such as English (Crystal 1980: 134; Hartmann and Stork 1972: 78; Pei and Gaynor 1954: 67; Andrews and Avery 1985: 138).

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Essive

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EssiveCase expresses that the referent of the noun it marks is the location at which another referent exists (Lyons 1968: 299,301; Gove, et al. 1966: 778; Crystal 1985: 112; Blake 1994: 154-5).

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EvaluativeFeature

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A feature associated with a nominal that generally indicates that the referent is viewed favorably or unfavorably by the speaker.

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EvidentialityFeature

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Evidentiality is the system of indicating the basis of an agent's warrant for their belief in what they say. It is closely related to Mood, some of whose values indicate the strength of the agent's belief.

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ExistentialMarker

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An existential marker is a partOfSpeech whose members are found in distinct clause types and which mark a referent's existence (Crystal 1997:142).

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Expletive

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An expletive (also known as a dummy word) is a part of speech whose members have no meaning, but complete a sentence to make it grammatical (Crystal 1997:127; Mish et al. 1990:437).

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ExpletivePronoun

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Expletives which are formally identical to PersonalPronouns. In European languages usually forms of the neuter singular, e.g. _it_ in English clefting constructions.

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FeatureConstraint

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A FeatureConstraint is a LinguisticDataStructure which groups a part of speech value with a set of features. Within a FeatureSystem of some language, it indicates which Features may be associated with a particular linguistic unit based on the unit's part of speech.

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FeatureSpecification

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A FeatureSpecification is a data structure that groups together a linguistic feature and with a value (Maxwell, Simons, and Hayashi 2001).

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FeatureStructure

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A FeatureStructure is a set of one or more FeatureSpecifications. A FeatureStructure is a kind of information structure, a container or data structure, used to group together qualities or features of some object. In a grammatical feature system, a FeatureStructure holds the grammatical information associated with some linguistic unit. In a typed feature system, a FeatureStructure has an associated type, usually a PartOfSpeech. (Shieber 1986; Maxwell, Simons, and Hayashi 2001).

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FeatureSystem

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FeatureSystem is a kind of LinguisticDataStructure that declares what kinds of FeatureStructures exist in the language. It can be assumed that only one feature system exists per language. A FeatureSystem consists of a set of FeatureConstraints (based on Maxwell, Simons, and Hayashi 2001).

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Feminine

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A grammatical class of nouns whose members tend to be perceived of as female.

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First

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Refers to the speaker and one or more nonparticipants, but not hearer(s). Contrasts with FirstPersonInclusive (Crystal 1997: 285).

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FirstExclusive

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Refers to the speaker and one or more nonparticipants, but not hearer(s). Contrasts with FirstPersonInclusive (Crystal 1997: 285).

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FirstInclusive

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Refers to the speaker, hearer(s) and possibly others. Contrasts with FirstPersonExclusive (Crystal 1997: 285).

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FocusAntipassive

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Blocks the P or logical object (basic absolutive) nominal from being assigned Focus salience. Topic salience is available for assignment to various arguments, including the P, but Focus salience is always assigned to A, and is therefore inaccessible to P or any other nominal.
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Folklore

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FolkloreEvidentiality encodes the fact that the speaker came to believe the content of the expression through legend, folklore or some other established tradition (Palmer 2001: 40).

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ForceFeature

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Force expresses the speech act associated with a proposition. Among the traditionally defined values are Declarative, Imperative and Interrogative. Force is here distinguished from Mood, but there is a close association of Mood with Force values, e.g. between IndicativeMood and DeclarativeForce.

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FreeStem is the class of form units whose members are decomposable into a root or roots and a derivational unit. They are expressed by the free forms of the language (Crystal 1985:287; Mish et al. 1990:1154).

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Frequentive

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Events which are frequently repeated, differs from habitual in that it can only be based upon the observation of several occurrences of the event concerned, whereas habitual can be based upon the observation of a single occurrence (Bhat 1999: 53).

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FutureTense locates the situation in question later than the present moment (time of speaking.)

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FutureInFutureTense locates the situation in question in the future, relative to a temporal reference point that itself is located in the future relative to the moment of utterance.

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FutureInPastTense locates the situation in question in the future, relative to a contextually determined temporal reference point that itself must be located in the past relative to the moment of utterance.

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GenderFeature

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GenderFeature the class of all grammatical genders found in language. It may be best subsumed under a more general class for noun classification.

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Genitive

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GenitiveCase is used to mark the noun whose referent is the possessor of the referent of another noun (Crystal 1980: 161; Hartmann and Stork 1972: 9495,180; Pei and Gaynor 1954: 82,172; Anderson 1985: 185; Mish et al. 1990: 511; Fleming 1988: 10).

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Gerund

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A part of speech derived from a verb and used as a noun, usually restricted to non-finite forms of the verb (Crystal 1997: 279).

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Habitual

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Refers to the internal temporal contour of a situation — a repeated situation that occupies a large slice of time. Can be based on the observation of a single occurrence.
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Hearsay

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HearsayEvidentiality, also called third hand, encodes the fact that the speaker came to believe the content of the expression from a source generally considered less reliable than with a SecondHandEvidential (Palmer 2001: 40).

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HesternalPast

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HesternalPastTense locates the situation in question somewhere in the span beginning with the period defined culturally as 'yesterday' and extends back through some period that is considered nonremote (Comrie 1985:87-88; Dahl 1985:126).

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HodiernalFuture

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HodiernalFutureTense locates the situation in question after the moment of utterance within the span culturally defined as 'today' (Comrie 1985: 86; Bybee, Perkins, and Pagliuca 1994: 247).

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HodiernalPast

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HodiernalPastTense locates the situation in question before the moment of utterance within the span culturally defined as 'today' (Comrie 1985:87; Dahl 1985:125-126). Contrasts with PreHodiernalPastTense.

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Hortatory

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HortatoryForce indicates that the hearer, possibly together with speaker, is admonished or to allow others to take action.

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Human

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In Classical Tibetan, three genders are distinguished:Inanimate entitites, animate entities and persons. (Zeisler, p.c.)

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Illative

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IllativeCase expresses that the referent of the noun it marks is the location into which another referent is moving. It has the meaning 'into' (Lyons 1968: 299; Gove, et al. 1966: 1126; Crystal 1985: 152).

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ImmediateFuture

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ImmediateFutureTense, also called 'close future', locates the situation in question shortly after the moment of utterance (Dahl 1985:121; Comrie 1985:94; Bybee, Perkins, and Pagliuca 1994: 244-245).

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ImmediatePast

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ImmediatePastTense locates the situation in question at a time considered very recent in relation to the moment of utterance (Comrie 1985: 87).

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ImperativeForce

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ImperativeForce indicates that the speaker requests or demands action on the part of the hearer.

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Imperfective

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A viewpoint aspect which encodes the speaker’s lack of attention to the endpoints of the situation referred to. Imperfective aspect is the prototypical mode of presentation for states (Michaelis 1998:xiv).

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ImpersonalPassive

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A Passive that alters the mapping of a nominal to the Subject relation in a basic intransitive structure (Klaiman 1991:23)

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Inablative

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InablativeCase expresses that the referent of the noun it marks is the location from within which another referent is moving. It has the meaning 'from within'.

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Inallative

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InallativeCase expresses that something is moving toward the region that is inside the referent of the noun it marks. It has the meaning 'towards in(side)'.

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Inanimate

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In Russian, animacy defines sub-genders of masculine and neuter nouns. Animate nouns take nominative ending in accusative whereas inanimate nouns don't.

In Classical Tibetan, three genders are distinguished:Inanimate entitites, animate entities and persons. (Zeisler, p.c.)

One of the two grammatical genders, or noun classes, of Nishnaabemwin, the other being animate. Membership in the inanimate grammatical class is largely based on meaning, in that non-living things, such as objects of manufacture and natural 'non-living' things are included in it (Valentine 2001: 114).

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Inceptive

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InceptiveAspect, also called the ingressive, encodes the beginning portion of some event (Bybee 1985: 147, 149; Payne 1997: 240; Bhat 1999:176).

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IncorporatingAntipassive

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Blocks the P or logical object (basic absolutive) nominal from being assigned Focus salience. This correlates with the P's morphosyntactic downgrading, whereby it becomes insusceptible to any informational salience assignment. (Klaiman 1991:236)

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IndefiniteArticle

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An article is a part of speech whose members are used to refer to an entity (or class of entities) which is not capable of specific identification (Crystal 1997:193).

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IndefinitePronoun

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An indefinite pronoun is a pronoun that belongs to a class whose members indicate indefinite reference (Crystal 1997: 312; Mish et al. 1990:612).

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Indicative

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IndicativeMood indicates that the speaker believes the expression to be true.

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Indirect

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IndirectEvidentiality, also called reported, encodes the fact that the speaker came to believe the content of the expression from a source other than by experiencing the situation directly (Palmer 2001: 40).

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Inessive

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InessiveCase expresses that the referent of the noun it marks is the location within which another referent exists. It has the meaning of 'within' or 'inside' (Lyons 1968: 299; Gove, et al. 1966: 1156; Crystal 1985: 156). X in Y.

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Inferential

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InferentialEvidentiality encodes the fact that the speaker came to believe the content of the expression through some kind of internal inference procedure, e.g., deduction, abduction, induction (Palmer 2001: 6-8).

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InflectedWord

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A free form of a language consiting of a root or stem plus at least one inflectional unit.

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InflectionalUnit

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InflectionalUnit is the class of sublexical unit whose members designate such grammatical categories as tense, aspect, mood etc. The various forms of an InflectionalUnit plus the stem forms a grammatical paradigm and express a grammatical contrast that is obligatory for its stem's part of speech in some given grammatical context. An InflectionalUnit does not alter the partOfSpeech feature of the Root or Stem it attaches to. It is typically located farther from its Root than a derivational unit and produces a predictable, nonidiosyncratic change of meaning (Crystal 1980:184; Hartmann and Stork 1972:112; Mish et al. 1990:620; Bybee 1985:2, 99).

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Informational

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InformationalForce indicates that the hearer is to relate to the informational content of what is expressed. Subsumes Declarative, Speculative and Interrogative.

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Instrumental

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InstrumentalCase indicates that the referent of the noun it marks is the means of the accomplishment of the action expressed by the clause (Crystal 1980: 187; Hartmann and Stork 1972: 114; Mish et al. 1990: 627).

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Interablative

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InterablativeCase expresses that the referent of the noun it marks is the location from between which another referent is moving. It has the meaning 'from inbetween'.

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Interallative

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InterallativeCase expresses that something is moving toward the region that is in the middle of the referent of the noun it marks. It has the meaning 'towards the middle of'.

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Interessive

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InteressiveCase expresses that the referent of the noun it marks is the location between which another referent exists. It has the meaning of 'between'.

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Interjection

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An interjection is a part of speech, typically brief in form, such as one syllable or word, whose members are used most often as exclamations or parts of an exclamation. An interjection, typically expressing an emotional reaction, often with respect to an accompanying sentence, is not syntactically related to other accompanying expressions, and may include a combination of sounds not otherwise found in the language (Crystal 1997:200).

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Interlative

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InterlativeCase expresses that the referent of the noun it marks is the location between which another referent is moving. It has the meaning 'to the middle of'.

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Interminative

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'into in(side of)'.

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InterrogativeDeterminer

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InterrogativeForce

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InterrogativeForce indicates that the speaker lacks certain knowledge about what is expressed, and may thereby be seeking information from the hearer. In that case, it is equivalent to a type of imperative: "Tell me ...".

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InterrogativeProform

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An InterrogativeProform is a Proform that is used in questions to stand for the item questioned.

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InterrogativePronoun

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Interterminative

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InterterminativeCase expresses the notion of something moving into the middle of the referent of the noun it marks, but not through it. It has the meaning 'into the middle of'.

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Intertranslative

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IntertranslativeCase expresses the notion of something moving along a trajectory between the referent of the noun it marks. It has the meaning 'along the in between.

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Intransitive

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An intransitive verb is a verb that cannot take a direct object, and describes a property, state, or situation involving only one participant (Crystal 1997:397; Payne 1997:171).

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Intranslative

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IntranslativeCase expresses the notion of something moving through the referent of the noun it marks. It has the meaning 'along through'.

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InverseVoice

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Signals when actions proceed from ontologically less salient to more salient participants (Klaiman 1991:32)

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Iterative

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IterativeAspect, also called repetitives, encodes a number of events of the same type that are repeated on a particular occasion. The time interval which is relevant to the iterative is relatively shorter than in the case of the habitual (Bybee 1985: 150; Bybee, Perkins and Pagliuca 1994: 127). Portrays events repeated on the same occasion (like the iterative knocking on the door) (Bhat 1999: 53)

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Jussive

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JussiveForce indicates a request for permission to take action.

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LargePlural

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LargePlural is used in a number system together with Singular and Dual or with SmallPaucal.

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Lative

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LativeCase expresses 'motion up to the location of,' or 'as far as' the referent of the noun it marks (Pei and Gaynor 1954: 121; Gove, et al. 1966: 1277).

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LexicalItem

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The information structure used to encode all the information associated with an entry in a dictionary.

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LexicalVerb

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Non-auxilliar verbs.

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Lexicon

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A collection of LexicalItems.

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LinguisticDataStructure

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A linguistic data structure is an abstract container for grouping together instances of linguistic data, usually to suit a particular theory or computational implementation. Examples include: feature structures, lexical entries, and paradigms.

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LinguisticFeature

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LinguisticFeature, also called 'property', 'quality' or 'feature name', is the class of features that may be associated with units relevant to a linguistic systems. e.g., the feature 'tense' has values: 'past', 'present', ..., 'future'. In the broader domain, the class 'feature' can be thought of as the set of qualities associated with some object in general, e.g., color, size, shape, etc. (Shieber 1986: 12; Gaerdenfors 2000; Masolo et al. 2002).
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LinguisticFeatureValue is the class of values that may be associated with instances of linguistic feature. That is, specific features have specific feature values associated with them, e.g., the feature 'tense' has 'past', 'present', ..., 'future' as values. In the broader domain, the class of LinguisticFeatureValue can be thought of as the set of qualia associated with some feature in general, a point in cognitive space. E.g., red is a quale in color space (Shieber 1986: 12; Maxwell, Simons, and Hayashi 2001; Gaerdenfors 2000; Masolo et al. 2002).

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LinguisticSign

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A sign is an abstract structure whose instances participate in a linguistic system, or `language'. By definition, a linguistic sign must have a form component (whose elements are phonological units), a grammatical component (whose elements are grammatical units), and a meaning component (whose elements are semantic units). The formal structure of a linguistic sign is determined by the grammar of a language. The information value of a linguistic sign, its meaning, is not fixed, but determined by the conventions of the language. The relation of form to meaning is largely arbitrary within a semiotic system. Signs are classified primarily according to what kinds of formal relations they participate in, and, secondly, according to theircomplexity (whether they are atomic or composed of other signs). Signs range from morphological and syntactic constructions to whole discourse segments (Saussure 1955; Hervey 1979; Pollard and Sag 1994).

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Locational

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Category of case that denotes that the referent of the noun it marks is a location.

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LocativePassive

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An oblique locative nominal assumes the subject relation.
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MainClause

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A main clause is an independent clause that can stand on its own as a sentence. If a sentence contains any embedded clauses, the main clause is understood as the matrix plus the embedded clauses. In the sentence 'John thinks that Mary is sick', 'John thinks that Mary is sick' is the main clause (Crystal 2001: 231).

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Malefactive

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Opposite of BenefactiveCase; used when the marked noun is negatively affected in the clause.

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Masculine

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A grammatical class of nouns whose members tend to be perceived of as male.

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MassNoun

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Nouns which denote uncountable entities as in "two litres of _water_". In English, these cannot be augmented with a determiner.

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MentalAbilitive

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MentalAbilitiveModality indicates that an agent has the capacity to perform some mental action (Bybee, Perkins, and Pagliuca 1994: 192; Palmer 2001: 77).

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ModalityFeature

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Modality is the theory of possibility and necessity. As a grammatical feature, it represents those dimensions in the domains of knowledge (epistemic modality), social relations (deontic modality) and ability (abilitive modality), and possibly others.

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ModalVerb

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A modal verb is used to indicate the epistemic function of a predication.

e.g. "We _must_ go now.", "We _could_ stay for another day.", "We _should_ leave anyway.", "We _ought_ to respect our orders."

Modal verbs are often regarded to be auxilliary verbs, thus occasionally termed "semi-auxilliaries", though this broad definition of auxilliars is not applied consistently. To account for the broad and the wide definition, the concept StrictAuxilliarVerb has been introduced for non-modal auxilliar verbs.

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MoodFeature

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Mood, also known as Force, expresses the grammatical mood or force of a proposition. Among the traditionally defined values are Declarative, Imperative and Interrogative. These values are a somewhat mixed bag of attitutude (e.g. optative, volitive, subjunctive) and speech-act (e.g. imperative, commissive) values. It may be desirable to separate them out.

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MorphologicalUnit

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The form units below the level of the syntactic word, i.e. those form units not participating in syntactic relations, but only morphological relations. That is, a morphological unit cannot occupy a lexical position in a syntactic construction. Morphological units are the smallest form units that have a meaning. In some theories, these correspond to the notion of morphemes or constructions. In a feature system, these elements carry morphological or morphosyntactic features.

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MorphosyntacticFeature

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Also called 'grammatical categories', or 'grams', a morphosyntactic feature is the class of linguistic features inhering in form units. Morphosyntactic features give form units their morphosyntactic behavior in a grammar. E.g., two form units can 'agree' according to shared form features. This class is intended to represent only the formal aspects of morphosyntax; that is, there is no notional component. In a grammatical system, attributes of the same type express meanings from the same conceptual domain. That is, they occur in contrast to one another other, and are typically expressed in the same fashion (Crystal 1985: 43-44; Hopper, P. 1992: 81, Bybee 1985: 191).
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FormFeatureValue is the class of values that may be associated with instances of FormFeature. In a FeatureSystem, these dictate the formal properties of the grammar and may or may not be true semantically. A set of FeatureValues forms an integral part of a language's FeatureSystem (Pollard and Sag 1994; Maxwell, Simons, and Hayashi 2001).

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Multal

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Multal refers to a large number of individuals.

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MultiplicativeNumeral

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A multiplicative numeral is a numeral that expresses how many fold or how many times (Pei and Gaynor 1954:149; Hartmann and Stork 1972:147).

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NecessitativePassive

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A passive in Irish in which the preposition "with" is used, and a semantic meaning of necessity is added. (Noonan 1994:280)

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Necessity

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NecessityModality indicates that the described state of affairs is necessary, either directly, or because of a requirement on the part of an agent.

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Negative

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A construction that expresses the contradiction of some or all of a proposition (Crystal 1980: 257). Note: this value is not to be confused with the notion "Negative Polarity Item", which is an expression that occurs in the scope of Negation (i.e. Negative Polarity).

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Neuter

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A class of nouns that tend to be perceived as neither masculine nor feminine. Often applied to inanimate entities or abstracta, but not restricted to, cf. German _Kind_ (child), _Rind_ (cow).

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Nominal

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A nominal is a partOfSpeech whose members differ grammatically from a substantive but which functions as one (Crystal 1997:260; Mish et al. 1990:801).

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NominalParticle

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A nominal particle is a member of a closed class of particles that co-occur with nouns.

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Nominative

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NominativeCase identifies clause subjects in nominative-accusative languages. It is usually the unmarked case. Nouns used in isolation often have this case (Crystal 1980: 242; Pei and Gaynor 1954: 147; Mish et al. 1990: 801; Hartmann and Stork 1972: 224).

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NonabsolutiveAntipassive

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An Antipassive in which the P or logical object is overtly downgraded. (Klaiman 1991:232)

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NonFuture

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NonFutureTense locates the situation in question at or before the moment of utterance, and contrasts with a FutureTense (Comrie 1985: 49).

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NonPast

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NonPastTense locates the situation in question at or after the moment of utterance, and contrasts with a past tense (Comrie 1985:48-49).

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NonpromotionalInverse

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Involves demotion of the non-topical obviate-agent from subjecthood. (Givon 1994:24)

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NonVisual

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OtherThanVisualEvidentiality encodes the fact that the speaker came to believe the content of the expression directly in a way other than through visual experience; they heard it, smelled it, tasted it, etc. (Palmer 2001: 36, 57).

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NotClassifiedGrammaticalUnit

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This is not intended as a conceptional grammatical category, but as a structural anchor point for pseudo-word classes which are grammatically heterogeneous, e.g. tags assigned to foreign word or abbreviations.

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Noun

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A noun is a broad classification of parts of speech which include substantives and nominals (Crystal 1997:371; Mish et al. 1990:1176), resp. common nouns and proper nouns (EAGLES recommendations).

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NucleonicMiddle

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Object of action belongs to. Moves into, or moves from sphere of subject.
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NumberFeature

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Number is a grammatical category often found on nouns, pronouns, and verb agreement that expresses count distinctions--such as 'one' or 'more than one'. The count distinctions typically, but not always, correspond to the actual count of the referents of the marked noun or Pronoun (Crystal 1980: 245; Hartmann and Stork 1972: 155; Mish et al. 1990: 811).

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Numeral

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A numeral is a partOfSpeech whose members function most typically as adjectives or pronouns and express a number, or relation to the number, such as one of the following: quantity, sequence, frequency, fraction (Hartmann and Stork 1972:155; Pei and Gaynor 1954:149).

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Object

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Any entity that is stable throughout time and has other objects as parts. At any point in time, an object is wholly present.

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Obligative

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ObligativeModality indicates that an agent is required to perform the action expressed by the predicate (Bybee, Perkins, and Pagliuca 1994: 177; Palmer 2001: 71).

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ObliquePassive

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A Passive in which a basic Oblique nominal assumes the Subject relation in a corresponding nonbasic configuration. Can include locative passives, benefactive passives and instrumental passives. (Klaiman 1991:23)

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Optative

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Optative indicates that the speaker wishes or hopes that the expressed proposition be the case (Bybee, Perkins, and Pagliuca 1994: 179; Palmer 2001: 204).

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OrdinalNumeral

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An ordinal numeral is a numeral belonging to a class whose members designate positions in a sequence (Crystal 1997:272; Mish et al. 1990:831).

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OrthographicExpression

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An OrthographicExpression is composed of the standard characters of an orthographic system. In a Romanized system, it is the 'spelling' associated with some word. An OrthographicExpression is governed by the orthographic combinatorial rules of a particular language. OrthographicExpressions are not transcriptions of any external entity, but independent linguistic expressions which refer directly to the LinguisticUnits of the language. They are the physical realizations of some human language, possibly no longer spoken.

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OrthographicPart

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OrthPart is the subclass of OrthographicExpression whose members are not orthographically independent, that is, they cannot stand alone as words but compose to form words. Note that an OrthPart is not the same as a single character. Although, some OrthParts are single characters.

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OrthographicPhrase

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An OrthPhrase is a concatenation of one or more instances of OrthWord.

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OrthographicSentence

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A special type of OthPhrase usually representing a Clause. In Western writing systems, an OrthSentence is set off by white space on the left edge and some kind of puncuation, such as a period or question mark, on the right.

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An OrthWord is the fundamental unit of an orthography, usually set off by white space.

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OtherSource

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OtherSourceEvidentiality indicates that the agent relies on another source for theirbelief in what they say.

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A particle is a part of speech whose members do not belong to one of the main classes of words, is invariable, and typically has grammatical or pragmatic meaning.

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PartiitiveNumeral

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A partitive numeral is a numeral that expresses a fraction (Pei and Gaynor 1954:149; Hartmann and Stork 1972:165).

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Partitive

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PartitiveCase expresses the partial nature of the referent of the noun it marks, as opposed to expressing the whole unit or class of which the referent is a part. This case may be found in items such as the following: existential clauses, nouns that are accompanied by numerals or units of measure, or predications of material from which something is made. It often has a meaning similar to the English word 'some' (Pei and Gaynor 1954: 161; Richards, Platt, and Weber 1985: 208; Quirk, et al. 1985: 249; Gove, et al. 1966: 1648; Sebeok 1946: 1214).

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PartitiveArticle

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Passive

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Associated with actions performed on the subject by an unspecified agent.
(McIntosh 1984:108) Refers to the category of verb forms, typically identifies with a specific morphological marking, that encode the derived diatheses in which the agent role is not linked with a subject noun phrase: Diatheis: D1=(X=AgOb)(Y+SUBabs/nom) (Shibatani 1995:7)

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Past

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PastTense locates the situation in question prior to the present moment, with no specification on the distance in time (Comrie 1985).

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PastInFuture

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Locates the situation in question in the future, prior to a reference time in the future.

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PastInPast

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Locates the situation in question prior to a reference time in the past. Also known as PluperfectTense.

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Paucal

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Paucal refers to a few members of a designated class (Crystal 1997: 265). It occurs in a number system together with Multal. It is entailed by SmallPaucal.

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Pejorative

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A special form of a noun that indicates the speaker regards the person or object being referred to with distaste, contempt, or displeasure (Valentine 2001: 190-193).

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Perfective

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A viewpoint aspect which encodes the speaker’s willingness to attend to the endpoints of the situation referred to. Perfective aspect is the canonical mode of presentation for events (Michaelis 1998: xv).

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Perlative

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PerlativeCase expresses that something moved 'through','across', or 'along' the referent of the noun that is marked (Blake 1998: 38, 203).

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Permissive

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PermissiveModality indicates that an agent has permission to perform the action expressed by the predicate (Palmer 2001: 10, 71).

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PersonalPassive

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A Passive in which the argument mapped to Object in a basic structural configuration assumes the Subject relation in a corresponding nonbasic configuration. (Klaiman 1991:23)

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PersonalPronoun

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A personal pronoun is a pronoun that expresses a distinction of person deixis (Mish et al. 1990:878).

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PersonFeature

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Person indicates the number and nature of the participants in a situation. Usually a three-way contrast is found: first, second, and third person. Other formal distinctions in languages include: inclusive/exlusive, honorific/intimate, and male/female (Crystal 1997: 285).

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Phasal

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A set of aspectual distinctions involving relations between a background situation (the reference situation) and a situation located relative to the reference situation (the denoted situation). In English, phasal distinctions are expressed by auxiliary-headed constructions, like the inceptive, progressive, and perfect constructions, whose head verbs express the aspectual class of the denoted situation. The aspectual class of the denoted situation differs from that of the reference situation (Michaelis 1998:xv). An event may have a beginning and an end, a middle portion (continuing or changing), and also an ensuing result or an altered state. These are considered to be the various “phases‽ of an event. A speaker may talk about an event from the point of view of any of these individual phases, and his language may have inflectional (or other type of) markers for representing these distinctions. Since such markers indicate distinctions in the temporal structure of an event, we may regard them as belonging to the category of aspect. It has been suggested (Dik 1989: 186) that these may be grouped under a subcategory (or “level‽) of aspect called “phasal aspect‽. (Bhat 1999:49)

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PhonologicalFeature

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PhonologicalUnit

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A unit of phonological structure, e.g., a phoneme.

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Phrase

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A phrase is a syntactic construction that consists of more than one LexicalUnit but lacks the subject - predicate organization of a Clause (Crystal 1980: 232-233; Pei and Gaynor 1954: 169; Pike and Pike 1982: 453; and Mish et al. 1990: 886).

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PhysicalAbilitiveModality

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PhysicalAbilitiveModality indicates that an agent has the physical capacity to perform some action (Bybee, Perkins, and Pagliuca 1994: 192; Palmer 2001: 77).

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PlainMiddle

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Results of action occur to subject.
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Plural

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Plural refers to more than one member of a designated class. It is used in a number system together with Singular only, as in English. We deprecate the definition in which it refers to any number larger than the largest individual number value in the system, e.g. 'more than two' in some languages (Crystal 1980: 245; Hartmann and Stork 1972: 178; Crystal 1987: 428; Mish et al. 1990: 906). We recommend LargePlural for systems in which the value is used together with Singular and Dual, and Multal for systems in which the value is used together with Singular, Dual and Trial.

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PolarityFeature

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We provisionally assume this feature to take on just the values Positive and Negative. As a morphosyntactic feature, generally only Negative is "marked", i.e. associated with a linguistic expression.

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Positive

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In general, positive polarity refers to an assertion that contains no marker of negation (Crystal 1980: 299).

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Possessed

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PossessedCase is used to mark the noun whose referent is possessed by the referent of another noun.

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PossessiveDeterminer

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an alias of AttributivePossessivePronoun, added for compatibility with EAGLES categorization.

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PossessivePronoun

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A possessive pronoun is a pronoun that expresses ownership and relationships like ownership, such as kinship, and other forms of association (Crystal 1997:312; Mish et al. 1990:918).

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Possibility

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PossibilityModality indicates that the designated state of affairs is possible, either directly, or because an agent has the ability or permission to carry it out.

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PostHodiernalFuture

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PostHodiernalFutureTense locates the situation in question after the span that is culturally defined as 'today' (Bybee, Perkins, and Pagliuca 1994: 247).

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Postposition

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A postposition is an adposition that occurs after its complement (Crystal 1997:300; Payne 1997:86).

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PragmaticInverse

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If the agent is more topical than the patient, the direct-active clause is used. If norm is reversed and the patient is more topical, the inverse clause is used. (Givon 1994:23)

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Preferred

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A special form of a noun that indicates the speaker regards the person or object being referred to with favor or admiration.

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PreHodiernalPast

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PreHodiernalPastTense locates the situation in question before that of a contrasting HodiernalPastTense. According to Bybee, Perkins, Pagliuca 1994: 98. this category must be defined relative to a HodiernalPastTense.

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Prenoun

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An element which may be compounded to the front of a noun to signal information such as size, color, etc. (Valentine 2001: 152-154).

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Preposition

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A preposition is an adposition that occurs before its complement (Crystal 1997:305; Mish et al. 1990:929; Payne 1997:86).

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Present

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PresentTense locates the situation in question at the present moment (the time of the speech event) (Comrie 1985: 37). Changed name from AbsolutePresentTense since no other "Present" tense value is defined.

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Preverb

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An element which may be compounded to the front of a verb, to signal information such as tense, direction, etc. (Valentine 2001: 154-158).

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Proadjective

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A Proadjective is a proForm that substitutes for an adjective or adjective phrase.

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Proadverb

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A Proadverb is a Proform that substitutes for an adverb or other expression having an adverbial function.

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Process

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Any entity that is relatively time unstable and has other processes as parts.

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Proclitic

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A proclitic is a clitic that precedes the lexical unit to which it is phonologically joined (Crystal 1980:64; Hartmann and Stork 1972:185; Pei and Gaynor 1954:176; Mish et al. 1990:938).

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ProForm

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A ProForm is a partOfSpeech whose members usually substitute for other constituents, including phrases, clauses, or sentences, and whose meaning is recoverable from the linguistic or extralinguistic context (Schachter 1985:24-25; Crystal 1997:310).

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Progressive

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ProgressiveAspect, also called the continuative or the durative, encodes a single event as an ongoing process. Thus, states cannot generally be encoded with the progressive (Comrie 1976: 32-35; Bybee, Perkins and Pagliuca 1994: 127-139; Payne 1997: 240). An exponent of phasal aspect which expresses a stative situation that holds during the time at which an event is occurring (e. g., He is fixing the fence)
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ProgressivePassive

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A passive in Irish in which the preposition "at" is used, and a semantic meaning of progressive tense is found (Noonan 1994:280)

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PromotionalInverse

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Involves promotion of the topical proximate-patient to subjecthood. (Givon 1994:24)

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Pronoun

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A Pronoun is a ProForm which functions like a noun and substitutes for a noun or noun phrase (Crystal 1997:312; Mish et al. 1990:942).

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ProperNoun

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Names of persons, places and physical entities.

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Punctuation

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Specialized signs reserved to mark syntactic structures, illocutionary force and other non-lexically encoded information in textual representations of language.

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Quantificational

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A speaker may report an event as occurring once only (semelfactive) or several times (iterative); he may view it as a specific event or as part of a general habit of carrying out similar events; he may also differentiate between different degrees of frequency with which the event occurs. The markers that a given language provides for one or more of these meaning distinctions can be grouped under a subcategory called “quantificational aspect‽, as all of them refer to the quantitative aspect of the event concerned (Bhat 1999:53).

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Quantifier

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A quantifier is a determiner that expresses a referent's definite or indefinite number or amount. A quantifier functions as a modifier of a noun, or a pronoun (Crystal 1997:317; Mish et al. 1990:963).

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QuantifyingDeterminer

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A Quantifier which serves as a determiner.
e.g. "_Every_ boy loves a girl."

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QuantifyingPronoun

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A quantifier which replaces a noun phrase, e.g. "_All_ came in."

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QuestionParticle

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A particle is a part of speech whose members signal a yes/no question (Payne 1997:296).

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RecentPast

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RecentPastTense locates the situation in question prior to the present moment, but by culturally and situationally defined criteria, usually within the span ranging from yesterday to a week or a few months previous (Comrie 1985:87; Dahl 1985:121-122).

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ReciprocalMiddle

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Referents of plural subject do action to one another. (Siewierska 1988:257)

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ReciprocalPronoun

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A reciprocal pronoun is a pronoun that expresses a mutual feeling or action among the referents of a plural subject (Crystal 1997:323; Mish et al. 1990:982).

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ReferentialVoice

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entails assignment of the absolutive to certain kinds of arguments other than the logical subjects (A) and objects (P), including the dative, benefactive, malefactive, and possessor. (Klaiman 1991:239)

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ReflexiveMiddle

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Subjects perform action to self. (Siewierska 1988:257)

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ReflexivePassive

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A Passive construction which contains reflexive markings. (Siewierska 1988:257)

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ReflexivePronoun

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A reflexive pronoun is a pronoun that has coreference with the subject (Mish et al. 1990:990).

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RelativeDeterminer

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RelativeFuture

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RelativeFutureTense locates the situation in question after a contextually determined temporal reference point, regardless of the latter's relation to the moment of utterance. Also called FuturePerfectTense (Comrie 1985:69-71).

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RelativePast

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RelativePastTense locates the situation in question before that of a contextually determined temporal reference point (Comrie 1985: 104). Also called PastPerfectTense.

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RelativePresent

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RelativePresentTense locates the situation in question simultaneously with some contextually determined temporal reference point.

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RelativePronoun

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Note that against this definition, relative pronouns can be used as noun modifiers, e.g.
"He's the man, _whose_ files disappeared surprisingly."
Thus, relative pronouns can appear as determiners as well. -- Christian Chiarcos

A relative pronoun is a pronoun that marks a relative clause, functions grammatically within the relative clause, and is coreferential to the word modified by the relative clause (Crystal 1997:329).

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RemoteFuture

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RemoteFutureTense locates the situation in question at a time that is considered relatively distant. It is characteristically after the span of time culturally defined as 'tomorrow' (Dahl 1985:121; Comrie 1985:94).

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RemotePast

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RemotePastTense locates the situation in question prior to the present moment, usually more than a few days ago (Dahl 1985:121; Comrie 1985:88). Subsumes notion of PreHesternalPast tense, which locates the situation in question before that of an opposing hesternal past tense. (Bybee, Perkins, Pagliuca 1994: 98).

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Second

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Refers to the person(s) the speaker is addressing (Crystal 1997: 285).

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SecondHand

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SecondHandEvidentiality, also called the quotative, encodes the fact that the speaker came to believe the content of the expression from communicating with someone else (Palmer 2001: 40).

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SemanticFeature

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Any linguistic feature that pertains to the semantic content in a linguistic system.

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SemanticInverse

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If the agent outranks the patient on the relevant generic topic hierarchy, the direct-active clause is used. If the relevant norm is reversed and the patient outranks the agent on the relevant hierarchy, the inverse clause is used. (Givon 1994:23)

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SemanticUnit

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under construction

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Semelfactive

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Momentaneous, without an inherent end-point, as sneeze (Michaelis 1998:xvi).

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Several

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Several is used in a system together with Singular and LargePlural or Multal to refer to a small, non-singular number of individuals.

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SimpleSpecification

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A SimpleSpecification is a kind of FeatureSpecification whose value must be a simple linguistic attribute (Maxwell, Simons, and Hayashi 2001).

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SimpleSyntacticWord

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Simple syntactic word is the class of formal units whose members are common to a set of derived or inflected units, if any, when all bound units are removed. They are not further analyzable into meaningful elements, being morphologically simple. Also, they designate the principle portion of meaning of the unit to which it belongs (Crystal 1985:268; Hartmann and Stork 1972:199; Pei and Gaynor 1954:187-188; Mish et al. 1990:1023; Matthews 1991:64).

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Singular

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Singular refers to one member of a designated class (Crystal 1980: 245; Hartmann and Stork 1972: 210).

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SizeFeature

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Feature for relative size. Currently only Diminutive and Augmentative defined as possible values. Typically specified "derivationally" rather than by inflection.

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SmallPaucal

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