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Syntax definitions
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- 1Adjunctionthe copying / cloning of the ‘root’ – the highest node
- 2About AdjunctsAdjunction never builds up the tree. It is a procedure which creates more syntactic space, either for the existing elements or for the elements whose role is modification; the elements which are not selected; which do not get a thematic role.
- 3Dominancecontainment relation
- 4Sisterhoodif two nodes are immediately dominated by the same node, they are sisters.
- 5Precedencetemporal order in which words are pronounced
- 6Abstract featuresfeatures without a morphological reflex
- 7t(trace)the place where a displaced constituent comes from is marked with ‘t’. Traces get an index to indicate what they are the trace of: the displaced constituent gets the same index.
- 8C-CommandC-command plays a central role in defining and constraining operations such as syntactic movement, binding, and scope. Tanya Reinhart introduced c-command in 1976 as a key component of her theory of anaphora. The term is short for "constituent command".
- 9Finitenessfinite verb is a verb that is inflected for person and number and that is
marked for Tense.
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