WebIn linguistics, agreement or concord (abbreviated agr) occurs when a word changes form depending on the other words to which it relates. It is an instance of inflection, and usually involves making the value of some grammatical category (such as gender or person) "agree" between varied words or parts of the sentence.. For example, in Standard English, one …

WebCognitive linguistics is an interdisciplinary branch of linguistics, combining knowledge and research from cognitive science, cognitive psychology, ... early 1980s with Ronald Langacker and other advocates of neo-Darwinian linguistics in a so-called ”Lakoff–Langacker agreement”. It is suggested that they picked the name ”cognitive ...

WebSIL International (formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics) is an evangelical Christian non-profit organization whose main purpose is to study, develop and document languages, especially those that are lesser-known, in order to expand linguistic knowledge, promote literacy, translate the Christian Bible into local languages, and aid minority …

WebIn linguistics, grammatical gender system is a specific form of noun class system, where nouns are assigned with gender categories that are often not related to their real-world qualities. In languages with grammatical gender, most or all nouns inherently carry one value of the grammatical category called gender; the values present in a given language …

WebIn linguistics, X-bar theory is a model of phrase-structure grammar and a theory of syntactic category formation that was first proposed by Noam Chomsky in 1970 and further developed by Ray Jackendoff (1974, 1977a, 1977b), along the lines of the theory of generative grammar put forth in the 1950s by Chomsky. It attempts to capture the …

WebAgreement, a 1980 Bollywood film; Science and mathematics. Agreement (linguistics) or concord, a change in the form of a word depending on grammatical features of another word; Consistency, logical agreement between two or more propositions; Reliability (statistics) in the sense of, for example, inter-rater agreement; Other uses

WebA license (or licence) is an official permission or permit to do, use, or own something (as well as the document of that permission or permit).. A license is granted by a party (licensor) to another party (licensee) as an element of an agreement between those parties. In the case of a license issued by a government, the license is obtained by applying for it.

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WebIn linguistics, conjugation (/ ˌ k ɒ n dʒ ʊ ˈ ɡ eɪ ʃ ən /) is the creation of derived forms of a verb from its principal parts by inflection (alteration of form according to rules of grammar).For instance, the verb break can be conjugated to form the words break, breaks, broke, broken and breaking.While English has a relatively simple conjugation, other …

WebIn linguistics, morphology (/ m ɔːr ˈ f ɒ l ə dʒ i /) is the study of words, how they are formed, and their relationship to other words in the same language. It analyzes the structure of words and parts of words such as stems, root words, prefixes, and suffixes.Morphology also looks at parts of speech, intonation and stress, and the ways context can change a word's …

WebIn linguistics, a collective noun is a word referring to a collection of things taken as a whole. Most collective nouns in everyday speech are not specific to one kind of thing. For example, the collective noun "group" can be applied to people ("a group of people"), or dogs ("a group of dogs"), or objects ("a group of stones").

WebIn linguistics, branching refers to the shape of the parse trees that represent the structure of sentences. Assuming that the language is being written or transcribed from left to right, parse trees that grow down and to the right are right-branching, and parse trees that grow down and to the left are left-branching.The direction of branching reflects the position of …

WebIn 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 of some inflection.Declensions may apply to nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, and articles to indicate number (e.g. singular, dual, plural), case (e.g. nominative case, accusative case, genitive case, dative case), …

WebArabic grammar or Arabic language sciences (Arabic: النحو العربي an-naḥw al-‘arabī or Arabic: عُلُوم اللغَة العَرَبِيَّة ulūm al-lughah al-‘arabīyah) is the grammar of the Arabic language.Arabic is a Semitic language and its grammar has many similarities with the grammar of other Semitic languages. Classical Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic have ...