grammatical function
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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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function
noun
uk/ˈfʌŋk.ʃən/us/ˈfʌŋk.ʃən/
the natural purpose (of something) or the duty (of ...
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In some cases, arguments bear semantic properties that, typically, require that they bear a directgrammaticalfunction, but in these cases they do not.
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Chapter 4 further gives an account of the mapping between semantic role,grammaticalfunction, and case, accommodating in detail a variety of idiosyncrasies.
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A-movement targets a position which may be associated with agrammaticalfunction, essentially a subject position.
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Thegrammaticalfunctionof some forms which may have different functions (indirect object\\direct object) is specified in brackets.
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This is accomplished by assigning agrammaticalfunctionto the newly created phrase.
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They reported that their children began to learn common nouns at a faster rate than predicates orgrammaticalfunctionwords.
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The composition analysis focused on four lexical categories : social terms, common nouns, predicates andgrammaticalfunctionwords.
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The percentages of social terms, common nouns, predicates andgrammaticalfunctionwords were calculated for each child in two different ways, as described earlier.
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Instead, grammatical functions assume the role of grammatical primitives, and major constituents are annotated for theirgrammaticalfunction.
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Thegrammaticalfunctionof each pair is manually tagged.
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Control, (27) is more problematic : the sharedgrammaticalfunctionis an argument of both the matrix and subordinate verbs.
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Then, the only difference between the two groups of children was in the percentage ofgrammaticalfunctionwords in the lexicons of >425 words.
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Rather, it was thegrammaticalfunctionof the items that varied markedly.
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We also confirm that the lexical information is quite important in thegrammaticalfunctionanalysis.
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When such parallels multiply across factors, it suggests that thegrammaticalfunctionmarked by did is the same in both.
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This account is rather vague and implies that discourse considerations take precedence overgrammaticalfunctionassignment.
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