| Definition | Word/Term |
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| Mood for 'let's [do something]': | |
| A category of word or root in a language that is useful in describing its grammar. | |
| A grammatical category containing actions. | |
| When a lexical class is one that has many (possibly infinitely many) members, it is: | |
| Mood for questions: | |
| Pattern used to denote an event without any implication of an instigator. | |
| A term used for a morpheme that is syntactically a word but phonologically an affix (i.e., dependent on another word). | |
| A term generally used for the smallest element in a language that makes sense when you say it by itself and that can appear in different places within a sentence. | |
| A verb form that indicates that a situation was caused to happen. | |
| A phrase in some languages consisting of the verb and its objects (but in some language this word used for a part of speech that is broader than a verb.) | |
| Type of language where morphemes that combine several grammatical concepts: | |
| The case of indirect objects. | |
| A noun phrase (generally) that receives an interpretation (role) with regard to a verb. | |
| A grammatical pattern in a language for shifting the point of view or perspective of a sentence from, for example, the subject to the direct object. | |
| Type of clause that functions as an argument: 'She said [that she was going to the party].' | |
| A term used in phonology for a process whereby syllabification applies across words. | |
| A morpheme that classifies words into grammatical categories based on shape, function, etc. | |
| When a lexical class contains a fixed membership (e.g., prepositions in English), it is: | |
| The case of transitive subjects. | |
| How a language relates arguments to their governing heads. | |
| A term used for a word (possibly a part of speech) that functions to equate a subject noun phrase with a predicate noun phrase. | |
| When the grammatical role of an argument in a clause is on the argument. | |
| An affix that is placed inside of another morpheme. | |
| Mood used to express uncertainty: | |
| A root or affix that has to occur with another morpheme in the same word. | |
| Grammatical categories of arguments that are useful in describing the grammar of a language (such as 'subject.') | |
| A derivational process by which some part of speech (typically a verb, adjective, etc.) is turned into a noun. | |
| Type of language that has long words with several roots: | |
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