semantics. Look up expletive (linguistics) in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dummy pronoun Expletive attributive Expletive deleted Expletive infixation Morphology...

Look up expletive in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Expletive may refer to: Expletive (linguistics), a word or phrase that is not needed to express the...

metrical purposes, and so forth. The use of expletive for such a meaning is now rare. Rather, expletive is a linguistics term for a meaningless word filling a...

(most commonly), interjections, or (rarely) verbs. Within linguistics, however, "expletive" is a technical term referring to a word that does not contribute...

Evolution of languages - Evolutionary linguistics - Example-based machine translation - Exegesis - Expletive - Expletive attributive False cognate - False...

In linguistics, the topic, or theme, of a sentence is what is being talked about, and the comment (rheme or focus) is what is being said about the topic...

A dummy pronoun, also known as an expletive pronoun, is a deictic pronoun that fulfills a syntactical requirement without providing a contextually explicit...

if nothing is actually being represented by it. In this case, it is an expletive and a dummy pronoun. In imperative clauses, most languages elide the subject...

In linguistics, control is a construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by some expression in context. Stereotypical...

In linguistics, a copula /‘kɒpjələ/ (pl.: copulas or copulae; abbreviated cop) is a word or phrase that links the subject of a sentence to a subject complement...

slang phenomenon. Infixes also occur in some language games. The use of 'expletive infixes' such as -fucking- and -bloody-, which are words rather than affixes...

hypothesis seems to only be based on visual appearance. When toning down expletives, asterisks are often used to replace letters. For example, the word "badword"...

(NPs) like yesterday—don't take theta roles. But almost all NPs (except expletives) express thematic relations. An argument can bear only one theta role...

pronoun or empty element. The former analysis has come to be termed the "expletive" view, whereas the latter is referred to as the "extraposition" approach...

Espinal, M Teresa (2000). "Expletive negation, negative concord and feature checking". Catalan Working Papers in Linguistics. 8: 47–69. Retrieved 8 March...

the work before it gets dark.) [With the auxiliary avoir and optional expletive ne] Aie écrit le livre demain. (Write the book tomorrow.) [With the auxiliary...

Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bloody, as an adjective or adverb, is an expletive attributive commonly used in British English, Irish English, and Australian...

In linguistics and grammar, a pronoun (glossed PRO) is a word or a group of words that one may substitute for a noun or noun phrase. Pronouns have traditionally...

In linguistics, a modifier is an optional element in phrase structure or clause structure which modifies the meaning of another element in the structure...

practices. It has been suggested that whether a term can be considered an expletive may depend on whether it is intended to be applied figuratively or literally...

to profanity, though blasphemy has retained its religious connotation. Expletive is another English term for the use of profanity, derived from its original...

Jacob (2001). "Rapid Change Among Expletive Polarity Items". In Brinton, Laurel J. (ed.). Historical Linguistics 1999 (PDF). John Benjamins Publishing...

pronouns Ellipsis Ergative verb Exceptional case-marking Existential clauses Expletives Extraposition Gapping Heavy NP shift Inverse copula sentences Movement...

verb takes a third person singular inflection and often appears with an expletive subject. In the active voice, impersonal verbs can be used to express...

stigmatised. Although the use of expletives may offend society at large, in specific social circles or situations, the use of expletives is accepted, and expected...

person who studies natural language (an academic discipline known as linguistics). Ambiguously, the word is sometimes also used to refer to a polyglot...

existential clauses usually use the dummy subject construction (also known as expletive) with there (infinitive: there be), as in "There are boys in the yard"...

In linguistics, function words (also called functors) are words that have little lexical meaning or have ambiguous meaning and express grammatical relationships...

traditionally been called noun clauses or nominal clauses, but current linguistics tends to view those names as misnomers and prefers content clause.: 91 ...

constructions, to the notion of expletive proposing that an element like "there" and its equivalent across languages is a raised expletive predicate rather than...