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| Topic areas | Language names | ||
| a-bar-movement | see "wh-movement" | aaev | use for "bev" |
| acq(uisition) | afrikaans | ||
| adj(ectives) | akan | ||
| adv(erbs) | alsatian | ||
| agr(eement) | ancient-greek | ||
| ai | anglo-saxon | ||
| anaphora | arabic | ||
| aphasia | bambara | ||
| applic(atives) | basque | ||
| asp(ect) | bavarian | ||
| aux(iliary) | berber | ||
| biling(ualism), biling(uals) | bev | see "aaev" | |
| binding | bosco-gurin | ||
| bounding | see "wh-movement" | brazilian | |
| case | breton | ||
| categorial-grammar | bulgarian | ||
| caus(atives) | cajun | ||
| change | see "diachronic" | catalan | |
| cleft | celtic | ||
| clit(ics) | chichewa | ||
| codeswitching | chinese | ||
| cogsci | danish | ||
| competing(-grammars) | use for "grammar-competition" | dutch | |
| computational | early new high german | see "enhg" | |
| cond(itional) | engl(ish) | ||
| conjunction | see "coordination" | enhg | use for "early new high german" |
| connectedness | faroese | ||
| contact | use for "language contact" | farsi | |
| coord(ination) | french | ||
| cop(ula) | frisian | ||
| coreference | see "anaphora", "binding" | german | |
| corpus | germanic | see "gmc" | |
| cp-recursion | gmc | use for "germanic" | |
| creole(s) | gothic | ||
| diachronic | use for "change" | greek | use for modern greek; cf. "ancient-greek" |
| dialect | haitian | ||
| discourse | hebrew | ||
| do | use for "periphrastic do" | hiberno-english | see "irish-english" |
| double-obj | hindi | ||
| dp | hungarian | ||
| ecp | icel(andic) | ||
| english-only | indo-european | ||
| erg(ative) | irish | ||
| event-argument | irish-english | use for "hiberno-english" | |
| evolution | italian | ||
| expl(etives) | jap(anese) | ||
| extrapos(ition) | kashmiri | ||
| factives | korean | ||
| focus | kru | ||
| formal(-languages) | maori | ||
| functional-heads | marathi | ||
| gapping | see "ellipsis" | mhg | use for "middle high german" |
| generalized-binding | middle-engl(ish) | ||
| gen(erics) | middle-french | ||
| gerunds | middle-high-german | see "mhg" | |
| government | modern-greek | see "greek" | |
| grammar-competition | see "competing-grammars" | norse | use for "old norse" |
| grammar-ref | norw(egian) | ||
| grammatical-relations | old-english | ||
| grammaticalization | old-french | ||
| hist(ory) | see "diachronic" | old-norse | see "norse" |
| hpsg | persian | see "farsi" | |
| incorp(oration) | polish | ||
| indef(inites) | portuguese | ||
| indirect-questions | rom(ance) | ||
| inf(initives) | runic | ||
| information-structure | see "discourse" | russian | |
| intonation | salentino | ||
| inv(ersion) | scand(inavian) | ||
| ipp | sem(itic) | ||
| learnability | slav(ic) | ||
| lex-sem | span(ish) | ||
| lf | use for "logical form" | swabian | |
| lfg | swed(ish) | ||
| loc(ative) | swiss-german | ||
| long-movement | tamil | ||
| modals | turkish | ||
| morph(ology) | vata | ||
| multilingualism | see "biling(ualism)" | veneto | |
| neg(ation) | walloon | ||
| null-obj(ects) | warlpiri | ||
| null-op(erators) | welsh | ||
| null-subj(ects) | west-flemish | ||
| parasitic gaps | see "pg" | yiddish | |
| parsing | |||
| particles | |||
| pass(ive) | |||
| perception-verbs | |||
| pg | use for "parasitic gaps" | ||
| phon(ology) | |||
| pol(arity) | |||
| poss(essives) | |||
| predication | |||
| prescription | |||
| pro(-drop) | see "null-subj" | ||
| processing | |||
| ps | use for "phrase-structure", "x-bar(-theory)" | ||
| pseudoclefts | |||
| quant(itative) | |||
| quantification | see "scope" | ||
| questions | |||
| raising | |||
| reconstruction | |||
| referentiality | use for "specificity" | ||
| refl(exives) | |||
| relational-grammar | |||
| relative-clauses | |||
| res(umptive)-pro(nouns) | |||
| reverse-copula | |||
| scope | |||
| scr(ambling) | |||
| sem(antics) | |||
| sla | use for "second-language-acquisition" | ||
| small-clauses | |||
| socio(linguistics) | |||
| specificity | see "referentiality" | ||
| stage/individual | |||
| stochastic | |||
| stylistic-fronting | |||
| subj(ect) | |||
| subj-postposing | |||
| tag | |||
| tense | |||
| textbook(s) | |||
| theta(-roles, -theory) | |||
| topic | |||
| topicalization | |||
| tough | see "null-operators" | ||
| typology | |||
| unacc(usatives) | |||
| unerg(atives) | |||
| v1 | |||
| v2 | |||
| v3 | |||
| variation | |||
| verb-movement | |||
| verb-raising | |||
| wh-movement | |||
| x-bar(-theory) | see "ps" | ||
| yiddish-source |