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In linguistics, boundedness is a semantic feature that relates to an understanding of the referential limits of a lexical item. Fundamentally, words that...

emotional labor and bounded rationality Boundedness (linguistics), whether a situation has a clearly defined beginning or end Boundedness axiom, the axiom...

In linguistics, an object is any of several types of arguments. In subject-prominent, nominative-accusative languages such as English, a transitive verb...

In linguistics and philosophy, modality refers to the ways language can express various relationships to reality or truth. For instance, a modal expression...

In linguistics, a feature is any characteristic used to classify a phoneme or word. These are often binary or unary conditions which act as constraints...

In linguistics and grammar, affirmation (abbreviated AFF) and negation (NEG) are ways in which grammar encodes positive and negative polarity into verb...

In fact, this use of the term is the one that currently dominates in linguistics. A main aspect of this understanding of complements is that the subject...

In linguistics, an argument is an expression that helps complete the meaning of a predicate, the latter referring in this context to a main verb and its...

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

In linguistics, possession is an asymmetric relationship between two constituents, the referent of one of which (the possessor) in some sense possesses...

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, definiteness is a semantic feature of noun phrases that distinguishes between referents or senses that are identifiable in a given context...

In linguistics, grammatical mood is a grammatical feature of verbs, used for signaling modality.: 181  That is, it is the use of verbal inflections that...

In linguistics, declension (verb: to decline) is the changing of the form of a word, generally to express its syntactic function in the sentence, by way...

In linguistics, branching refers to the shape of the parse trees that represent the structure of sentences. Assuming that the language is being written...

In linguistics, grammatical number is a feature of nouns, pronouns, adjectives and verb agreement that expresses count distinctions (such as "one", "two"...

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

trigger, or absolutive case, whichever a language may have. Agreement (linguistics) Case hierarchy Declension Differential object marking Inflection List...

by the category label T, which is the head of a TP (tense phrase). In linguistics, a tenseless language is a language that does not have a grammatical...

In linguistics, an honorific (abbreviated HON) is a grammatical or morphosyntactic form that encodes the relative social status of the participants of...