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Isolating Synthetic Fusional Agglutinative Polysynthetic Oligosynthetic Morphosyntactic Alignment Nominative–accusative
Marked nominative Ergative–absolutive...
- In linguistics,
morphosyntactic alignment is the
grammatical relationship between arguments—specifically,
between the two
arguments (in English, subject...
- is
typical of an Indo-European language,
English follows accusative morphosyntactic alignment.
Unlike other Indo-European
languages though,
English has...
- In linguistics, an
unaccusative verb is an
intransitive verb
whose grammatical subject is not a
semantic agent. In
other words, the
subject does not actively...
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ditransitive verbs are also
referred to as
resultative verbs. The
morphosyntactic alignment between arguments of
monotransitive and
ditransitive verbs...
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Animacy (antonym: inanimacy) is a
grammatical and
semantic feature,
existing in some languages,
expressing how
sentient or
alive the
referent of a noun...
- The
Hengyang dialect of
Xiang Chinese (Simplified Characters: 衡阳方言,
Traditional Characters: 衡陽方言,
Standard Mandarin: Héngyáng fāngyán /xəŋ˨˦.jaŋ˨˦ faŋ˥...
- subject-verb-object order.
Filipino follows the
trigger system of
morphosyntactic alignment that is also
common among Austronesian languages. It has...
- seen as more
subject to borrowing. Still, very complex, non-trivial
morphosyntactic structures can
rarely take
precedence over
phonetic shapes to indicate...
- The
Eskaleut (/ɛˈskæliuːt/ e-SKAL-ee-oot), Eskimo–Aleut or Inuit–Yupik–Unangan
languages are a
language family native to the
northern portions of the North...
