In linguistics and grammar, a sentence is a linguistic expression, such as the English example "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." In traditional...

In grammar, sentence and clause structure, commonly known as sentence composition, is the classification of sentences based on the number and kind of...

offence Sentence (linguistics), a grammatical unit of language Sentence (mathematical logic), a formula not containing free variables Sentence (music)...

dictionary. Complement (linguistics) Copula Grammatical case Object (grammar) Preparatory subject Quirky subject Sentence (linguistics) Subjective (grammar)...

happy". Phrases can consist of a single word or a complete sentence. In theoretical linguistics, phrases are often analyzed as units of syntactic structure...

Computational linguistics is an interdisciplinary field concerned with the computational modelling of natural language, as well as the study of appropriate...

Linguistics is the scientific study of language. Linguistics is based on a theoretical as well as a descriptive study of language and is also interlinked...

Generative grammar is a research tradition in linguistics that aims to explain the cognitive basis of language by formulating and testing explicit models...

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...

In linguistics, syntax (/ˈsɪntæks/ SIN-taks) is the study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences. Central...

voice Performative utterance Phrasal verb Phrase structure rules Sentence (linguistics) Syntax Tense–aspect–mood Transitivity (grammatical category) Verb...

Conditional sentences are natural language sentences that express that one thing is contingent on something else, e.g. "If it rains, the picnic will be...

grammatical sentences. These rules of grammaticality also provide explanations of ill-formed, ungrammatical sentences. In theoretical linguistics, a speaker's...

Wavelength, the spatial period of a periodic wave Sentence (linguistics), especially when discussing complex sentences in Latin syntax Period (school), a class...

In linguistics, a sentence function refers to a speaker's purpose in uttering a specific sentence, phrase, or clause. Whether a listener is present or...

and semantics), declarative sentence that is either true or false Statement, a declarative phrase in language (linguistics) Statement, a North American...

words in sentences. Affect (linguistics) Boundary tone (linguistics) Focus (linguistics) High rising terminal Prosodic unit Prosody (linguistics) Speech...

England Compound (linguistics), a word that consists of more than one radical element Compound sentence (linguistics), a type of sentence made up of two...

Historical linguistics, also known as diachronic linguistics, is the scientific study of how languages change over time. It seeks to understand the nature...

Balancing and deranking Dependent clause Phrase Relative clause Sentence (linguistics) T-unit Thematic equative "Clause". 10 February 2017. For a definition...

Sentence length may refer to: In linguistics, the length of a Sentence (linguistics) In penology, the length of a Sentence (law) In music, the length of...

conditions a sentence is true. Many related disciplines investigate language and meaning. Semantics contrasts with other subfields of linguistics focused on...

In linguistics, focus (abbreviated FOC) is a grammatical category that conveys which part of the sentence contributes new, non-derivable, or contrastive...

the sentence as an example illustrating rewrite rules in linguistics.: 104–105  The idea that one can construct a grammatically correct sentence consisting...

terms of coherent sequences of sentences, propositions, speech, or turns-at-talk. Contrary to much of traditional linguistics, discourse analysts not only...

like a banana" is a humorous saying that is used in linguistics as an example of a garden path sentence or syntactic ambiguity, and in word play as an example...

created or recorded. As a result, one linguistics textbook concludes that, in theory, "there is no longest English sentence." An Accommodating Advertisement...

In linguistics, transformational grammar (TG) or transformational-generative grammar (TGG) is part of the theory of generative grammar, especially of...

A sentence diagram is a pictorial representation of the grammatical structure of a sentence. The term "sentence diagram" is used more when teaching written...

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