Branching (linguistics)In linguistics, branching refers to the shape of the parse trees that represent the structure of sentences. Assuming that the language is being written or transcribed from left to right, parse trees that grow down and to the right are right-branching, and parse trees that grow down and to the left are left-branching. The direction of branching reflects the position of heads in phrases, and in this regard, right-branching structures are head-initial, whereas left-branching structures are head-final.
Langue SOVUne langue SOV est, en typologie syntaxique, une langue dont les phrases suivent, généralement, un ordre sujet-objet-verbe. D'après l'étude de 402 langues par Russell S. Tomlin publiée en 1986, 45 % des langues dans le monde suivent le modèle de SOV, et 75 % des langues naturelles sont des langues SOV ou SVO (sujet-verbe-objet). Cet ordre est le plus fréquent et représente environ 45 % des langues. Parmi les langues naturelles, SOV est le type le plus commun.
Principles and parametersPrinciples and parameters is a framework within generative linguistics in which the syntax of a natural language is described in accordance with general principles (i.e. abstract rules or grammars) and specific parameters (i.e. markers, switches) that for particular languages are either turned on or off. For example, the position of heads in phrases is determined by a parameter. Whether a language is head-initial or head-final is regarded as a parameter which is either on or off for particular languages (i.
ClassificateurEn grammaire, un classificateur, un mot de mesure ou un spécificatif est un mot ou un morphème utilisé dans certaines langues et dans certains contextes pour indiquer la classe d'un nom. Ces classes sont généralement définies entre autres par des caractéristiques sémantiques (comme la forme de l'objet). Les systèmes de classificateurs utilisent une vingtaine de classificateurs voire plus. Les noms n'ont pas tous besoin de classificateurs, et les noms prennent souvent plus d'un classificateur.
Groupe prépositionnelEn grammaire, un groupe ou syntagme prépositionnel est une unité syntaxique formée d’un groupe de mots commençant par une préposition. Le groupe qui suit la préposition, appelé régime est souvent un groupe nominal, mais peut aussi être un déterminant numéral, un pronom, un gérondif, un adverbe, un autre groupe prépositionnel ou une proposition entière. Le syntagme prépositionnel peut exercer la fonction de complément du nom, complément circonstanciel, complément d'agent, attribut du sujet, complément de l’adjectif, complément d’adverbe ou complément d'objet indirect.
Théorie X-barreLa théorie X-barre (notée X̅) a été proposée par Noam Chomsky en 1970 dans le cadre de la linguistique générative, et développée ensuite par Ray Jackendoff (1977). Elle permet d'imposer des restrictions sur la classe des catégories grammaticales possibles tout en permettant une mise en parallèle de ces dernières grâce à des métarègles (généralisation de plusieurs règles). Par extension, cette théorie prédit des catégories grammaticales non-marquées au contraire des catégories majeures (nom, verbe, adjectif et adverbe) : déterminant (Dét.
Syntactic movementSyntactic movement is the means by which some theories of syntax address discontinuities. Movement was first postulated by structuralist linguists who expressed it in terms of discontinuous constituents or displacement. Some constituents appear to have been displaced from the position in which they receive important features of interpretation. The concept of movement is controversial and is associated with so-called transformational or derivational theories of syntax (such as transformational grammar, government and binding theory, minimalist program).
BengaliLe bengali ou bangla (bn, ) est une langue indo-iranienne (sous-branche indo-aryenne) de la famille des langues indo-européennes. Avec l'assamais, il s'agit de la plus orientale des langues indo-européennes.
ComplementizerIn linguistics (especially generative grammar), a complementizer or complementiser (glossing abbreviation: ) is a (part of speech) that includes those words that can be used to turn a clause into the subject or object of a sentence. For example, the word that may be called a complementizer in English sentences like Mary believes that it is raining. The concept of complementizers is specific to certain modern grammatical theories. In traditional grammar, such words are normally considered conjunctions.
Noun phraseA noun phrase, or nominal (phrase), is a phrase that has a noun or pronoun as its head or performs the same grammatical function as a noun. Noun phrases are very common cross-linguistically, and they may be the most frequently occurring phrase type. Noun phrases often function as verb subjects and objects, as predicative expressions and as the complements of prepositions. Noun phrases can be embedded inside each other; for instance, the noun phrase some of his constituents contains the shorter noun phrase his constituents.
Syntactic categoryA syntactic category is a syntactic unit that theories of syntax assume. Word classes, largely corresponding to traditional parts of speech (e.g. noun, verb, preposition, etc.), are syntactic categories. In phrase structure grammars, the phrasal categories (e.g. noun phrase, verb phrase, prepositional phrase, etc.) are also syntactic categories. Dependency grammars, however, do not acknowledge phrasal categories (at least not in the traditional sense).
Determiner phraseIn linguistics, a determiner phrase (DP) is a type of phrase headed by a determiner such as many. Controversially, many approaches, take a phrase like not very many apples to be a DP, headed, in this case, by the determiner many. This is called the DP analysis or the DP hypothesis. Others reject this analysis in favor of the more traditional NP (noun phrase or nominal phrase) analysis where apples would be the head of the phrase in which the DP not very many is merely a dependent.
Head (linguistics)In linguistics, the head or nucleus of a phrase is the word that determines the syntactic category of that phrase. For example, the head of the noun phrase boiling hot water is the noun (head noun) water. Analogously, the head of a compound is the stem that determines the semantic category of that compound. For example, the head of the compound noun handbag is bag, since a handbag is a bag, not a hand. The other elements of the phrase or compound modify the head, and are therefore the head's dependents.
Adjective phraseAn adjective phrase (or adjectival phrase) is a phrase whose head is an adjective. Almost any grammar or syntax textbook or dictionary of linguistics terminology defines the adjective phrase in a similar way, e.g. Kesner Bland (1996:499), Crystal (1996:9), Greenbaum (1996:288ff.), Haegeman and Guéron (1999:70f.), Brinton (2000:172f.), Jurafsky and Martin (2000:362). The adjective can initiate the phrase (e.g. fond of steak), conclude the phrase (e.g. very happy), or appear in a medial position (e.g.
