grammatical element
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grammatical
adjective
uk/ɡrəˈmæt.ɪ.kəl/us/ɡrəˈmæt̬.ɪ.kəl/
relating to grammar or obeying the rules ...
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element
noun
uk/ˈel.ɪ.mənt/us/ˈel.ə.mənt/
a part ...
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Non-existence of agrammaticalelementis not to be seen as the result of deletion from an underlying structure, but rather results from non-elaboration of a core structure.
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An evidential (also verificational or validational) is the particulargrammaticalelement(affix, clitic, or particle) that indicates evidentiality.
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This is a gap-filling argument, with grammatical elements conceptualized as counters moving on their own, rather than being reanalyzed by speakers and hearers.
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Descriptions of the ' grammatical elements ' cover their internal structure, distributional properties and semantic characteristics.
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Consequently, people may use more grammatical elements simply because they produce more words.
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First, regularities of architectural patterning, or the grammatical elements of building shapes and group arrangements, can be seen through map inspection alone.
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In addition to phonetic cues, however, grammatical elements such as tags of various types may additionally (or alternatively) constitute turns as complete.
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However, this differentiation becomes attenuated with age across most of the lexical and grammatical elements found to be diagnostic of genre-distinctiveness.
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Such frozen grammatical elements testify to earlier access to an in-ected variety.
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This invokes the gradient nature of the change of the verbs in group 1 from lexical to grammatical elements, as discussed above.
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That is, he considered a ' functional ' distinction to exist between any two grammatical elements that contrast paradigmatically.
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The main grammatical elements, such as subject, object, and verb, can be produced in practically any order for a turn to maintain "coherence" for participants.
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At higher levels of ability, learners are able to use more complex grammatical elements without a corresponding increase in speech output.
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That is, they were able to increase their use of grammatical elements without a corresponding increase in speech output.
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Unlike the other grammatical elements investigated in the present study, the participants were credited with a narrative item regardless of whether it was used correctly.
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That problem derives from the need to appeal to motivations in conflict in order to explain some particular complex typological distribution of grammatical elements.
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There is evidence, however, that in addition to lexical grammatical elements, a computational component must exist independently.
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A key aim of this study is to show that lexical and grammatical elements can fulfil a range of different discourse functions, and that these functions typically expand across development.
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The vocabulary need not consist only of words or stems, but it may also consist of grammatical elements, such as details of noun classes or tenses in verbs.
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