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Grammatical relations
provide labels for different types of structural relationships that hold between a head and its arguments
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Grammatical Linking
- The use of word order and/or inflection to indicate an NP's relationship to a head.
- (ex. English SVO)
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Inflection
- making change in a word's form to indicate grammatically relevant information.
- eg. the boy met the teacher -> He met Him
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Key feature of subject and direct objects
- their relationship to the verb is represented by word order.
- eg. subject before verb and direct object after it.
- is grammatically linked
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Key feature of indirect objects
- often marked by a meaning-bearing element that denotes 'direction toward' (preposition or postposition).
- not grammatically linked.
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primary object
when more than one D.O. is possible, it is the one closer to the verb
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secondary object
when more than one D.O. is possible, it is the one farther from the verb
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Obliques
- constituents of sentence (other than a verb)
- neither subjects nor objects (direct or indirect)
- e.g. they talked about the ball gamethey proceeded carefully
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Semantic Topic
- what the sentence is about
- can be subject or D.O.
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Grammatical/Structural Topic
- may also be semantic topics
- grammatically linked in distinguishing way
- - positioning (e.g. occur at beginning of sentence followed by a pause, as in Mandarin)
- - particular gammatical marker (eg. japanese wa)
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