The syntactic pivot is the verb argument around which sentences "revolve" in a given language. This usually means the following: If the verb has more...

compromised computer for attacks Syntactic pivot, the argument of the verb around which the sentence revolves Pivot language, an artificial or natural...

transitive verb differently. Such languages are said to operate with S/O syntactic pivot. This contrasts with nominative–accusative languages such as English...

synthesize many concepts into a single word, using affixes regularly. Syntactic roles are assigned to words primarily by word order. For example, by changing...

Zero-marking Dependent-marking Double-marking Head-marking Null-subject Syntactic pivot Theta role Word order VO languages Subject–verb–object Verb–subject–object...

nominative or accusative argument will behave when placed in particular syntactic constructions. This has to do with the impact of alignment on the level...

to use single inflectional morphemes to denote multiple grammatical, syntactic, or semantic features. For example, the Spanish verb comer ("to eat")...

i-da-bəgwanəma PIVOT-the-mani χ-a-q'asa hit-the-otter s-isi-t'alwagwayu with-hisi-club kwixʔid i-da-bəgwanəma χ-a-q'asa s-isi-t'alwagwayu clubbed PIVOT-the-mani...

not limited to phonological typology, which deals with sound features; syntactic typology, which deals with word order and form; lexical typology, which...

morpheme-to-word ratio. Rule-wise, a synthetic language is characterized by denoting syntactic relationship between the words via inflection and agglutination, dividing...

Zero-marking Dependent-marking Double-marking Head-marking Null-subject Syntactic pivot Theta role Word order VO languages Subject–verb–object Verb–subject–object...

Zero-marking Dependent-marking Double-marking Head-marking Null-subject Syntactic pivot Theta role Word order VO languages Subject–verb–object Verb–subject–object...

concept is that of an analytic language, which uses unbound morphemes or syntactical constructions to indicate grammatical relationships. Isolating and analytic...

but from the agreement of the verb with the subject as well as other syntactic and contextual cues such as word order and meaning[citation needed])....

polysynthetic languages is a tendency to use head marking as a means of syntactic cohesion. This means that many polysynthetic languages mark grammatical...

language would treat the "she" in "she runs" as morphologically and/or syntactically distinct from either argument in "he likes her". Which languages constitute...

linguistics, word order (also known as linear order) is the order of the syntactic constituents of a language. Word order typology studies it from a cross-linguistic...

Zero-marking Dependent-marking Double-marking Head-marking Null-subject Syntactic pivot Theta role Word order VO languages Subject–verb–object Verb–subject–object...

formal device for representing syntactic argument structure—the number and type of noun phrases—required syntactically by a particular verb. For example...

Distinctions may be made morphologically (through case and agreement), syntactically (through word order), or both. The following notations will be used...

Zero-marking Dependent-marking Double-marking Head-marking Null-subject Syntactic pivot Theta role Word order VO languages Subject–verb–object Verb–subject–object...

more accurately described as absolutive–verb–ergative (AVE) (see also syntactic ergativity). At least three of those languages (Makushi, Arekuna, and...

many non-pro-drop languages such as English and French must fill in the syntactic gap by inserting a dummy pronoun. "*Rains" is not a correct sentence;...

every gismu (basic word, not counting particles) involves pre-determined syntactical roles for every gismu coming after it in a clause, though it does involve...

parameters. However, the Yuman language Havasupai is reported to have a purely syntactic case system, with a suffix -č marking all subjects of transitive and intransitive...

Zero-marking Dependent-marking Double-marking Head-marking Null-subject Syntactic pivot Theta role Word order VO languages Subject–verb–object Verb–subject–object...

Dutch embedded clauses suggest an underlying SOV order with specific syntactic movement rules which change the underlying SOV order, deriving a surface...

Zero-marking Dependent-marking Double-marking Head-marking Null-subject Syntactic pivot Theta role Word order VO languages Subject–verb–object Verb–subject–object...

(SAP), the first or second person. Neither a morphological feature nor a syntactic feature is common to all inverse systems. Direct-inverse systems on verbs...

manifests itself as a voice affix on the verb that corresponds to the syntactic role of a noun within the clause, that is either marked for a particular...