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agreement, concord
the determination of grammatical inflection on the basis of word relations
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transitiveness, transitivity
the grammatical relation created by a transitive verb
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intransitiveness, intransitivity
the grammatical relation created by an intransitive verb
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coreference
the grammatical relation between two words that have a common referent
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conjunction
the grammatical relation between linguistic units (words or phrases or clauses) that are connected by a conjunction
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complementation
the grammatical relation of a word or phrase to a predicate
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coordination
the grammatical relation of two constituents having the same grammatical form
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subordination
the grammatical relation of a modifying word or phrase to its head
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limiting, modification, qualifying
the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase
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modality, mode, mood
verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
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anaphoric relation
the relation between an anaphor and its antecedent
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voice
(linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes
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inflection, inflexion
a change in the form of a word (usually by adding a suffix) to indicate a change in its grammatical function
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aspect
the beginning or duration or completion or repetition of the action of a verb
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number agreement
agreement in number between words in the same grammatical construction (e.g., between adjectives and the nouns they modify)
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person agreement
agreement in person between pronouns and verbs
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case agreement
agreement in grammatical case between words in the same construction
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gender agreement
agreement in grammatical gender between words in the same construction
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reflexiveness, reflexivity
the coreferential relation between a reflexive pronoun and its antecedent
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coordinating conjunction
the coordination by conjunction of linguistic units of the same status
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subordinating conjunction
the subordination that occurs when a conjunction makes one linguistic unit a constituent of another
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copulative conjunction
the conjunctive relation of units that expresses the addition of their meanings
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disjunctive conjunction
the conjunctive relation of units that expresses the disjunction of their meanings
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adversative conjunction
the conjunctive relation of units that expresses the opposition of their meanings
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restrictiveness
a grammatical qualification that makes the meaning more specific (`red hat' has a more specific meaning than `hat')
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apposition
a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows
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common mood, declarative, declarative mood, fact mood, indicative, indicative mood
a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact
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subjunctive, subjunctive mood
a mood that represents an act or state (not as a fact but) as contingent or possible
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optative, optative mood
a mood (as in Greek or Sanskrit) that expresses a wish or hope; expressed in English by modal verbs
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imperative, imperative form, imperative mood, jussive mood
a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior
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interrogative, interrogative mood
some linguists consider interrogative sentences to constitute a mood
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active, active voice
the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is performing the action or causing the happening denoted by the verb
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passive, passive voice
the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is the recipient (not the source) of the action denoted by the verb
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conjugation
the inflection of verbs
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declension
the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages
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paradigm
systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word
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pluralisation, pluralization
the act of pluralizing or attributing plurality to
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perfective, perfective aspect
the aspect of a verb that expresses a completed action
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durative, durative aspect
the aspect of a verb that expresses its duration
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inchoative, inchoative aspect
aspect with regard to the beginning of the action of the verb
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iterative, iterative aspect
the aspect of the verb that expresses the repetition of an action
