Endocentric — In linguistics, an endocentric construction is a grammatical construction thatfulfills the same linguistic function as one of its constituents. An endocentric construction consists of an obligatory head and one or more optional, dependent words,… … Wikipedia
HEBREW GRAMMAR — The following entry is divided into two sections: an Introduction for the non specialist and (II) a detailed survey. [i] HEBREW GRAMMAR: AN INTRODUCTION There are four main phases in the history of the Hebrew language: the biblical or classical,… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
linguistics — /ling gwis tiks/, n. (used with a sing. v.) the science of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and historical linguistics. [1850 55; see LINGUISTIC, ICS] * * * Study of the nature and structure of… … Universalium
Tree-adjoining grammar — (TAG) is a grammar formalism defined by Aravind Joshi. Tree adjoining grammars are somewhat similar to context free grammars, but the elementary unit of rewriting is the tree rather than the symbol. Whereas context free grammars have rules for… … Wikipedia
Exocentric — has a number of meanings.In linguistics, it refers to phrases and compound words which are not the same part of speech as their constituents.For example, in the sentence I am in the doghouse , the phrase in the doghouse is an exocentric phrase,… … Wikipedia