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Valency
Valency refers to the capacity of a verb to take a specific number and type of arguments (noun phrase positions).
Verb (Linguistics)
A verb is a member of the syntactic class of words that typically signal events and actions constitute, singly or in a phrase, a minimal predicate in a …
Verb Phrase
Here are two senses for verb phrase: 1. In traditional terminology, a verb phrase is a phrase that has the syntactic role of a simple verb , and is …
Verbal Adjective
A verbal adjective is an adjective which is similar to a verb in form and meaning.
Verbal Noun
A verbal noun is a noun that is morphologically related to a verb and similar to it in meaning.
Verbal Particle
A verbal particle is a member of a closed class of particles which co-occur with some verbs to form phrasal verbs. In some languages, verbal particles are …
Vertical Deixis
Vertical deixis is place deixis that indicates location upward or downward in relation to the speaker or other deictic center .
Verticality Schema
A verticality schema is an image schema that involves “up” and “down” relations.
Visual Evidential
A visual evidential is a sensory evidential signaling that the speaker 's evidence for the truth of his or her statement is derived from the speaker’s own …
Vocative Case
Vocative case is a case that marks a noun whose referent is being addressed.
Vocoid
A vocoid is a sound made with an open oral cavity such that there is little audible friction in the mouth. It has the potential to be analyzed phonemically …
Voice
Voice is a grammatical category that expresses the semantic functions attributed to the referents of a clause. It indicates whether the subject is an actor …
Voiceless Vowel
A voiceless vowel is a vowel that is produced with no vibration of the vocal folds.
Volitive Modality
Volitive modality is a deontic modality that expresses the speaker’s attitude of hope, wish, or fear concerning the proposition expressed by the utterance …
Vowel
A vowel is a sound made when the impedance of the air through the vocal tract is minimal and the vocal tract is completely open.
Vowel Harmony
Vowel harmony is a type of assimilation which takes place when vowels come to share certain features with contrastive vowels elsewhere in a word or phrase …
Vowel Modification
A vowel modification is an addition or alteration to the basic way that a vowel is articulated.
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