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| According to Noam Chomsky, who conceived it, the "system of principles, conditions, rules that are elements or properties of all human languages" (1975, 29). |
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| Any component that functions as part of a larger linguistic structure. |
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| Any meaningful sequence of words below the level of the clause. |
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| Syntactic structure composed of a subject and a predicate. |
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| Sentence with two or more independent clauses. |
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| Sentence with one or more subordinate (dependent) clauses embedded within or appended to the main (independent) clause. |
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| Clause that cannot function as a sentence, but that must be attached to or embedded in an independent clause. |
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| Clause that is a complete sentence. |
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| A dependent clause that modifies (gives more information about) the verb of the main clause. |
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| A dependent clause that serves as a noun phrase. |
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| A dependent clause that typically functions as adjectivals (modifies nouns or noun phrases). |
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| Syntactic processes that generate "surface" realizations from "underlying" sentences. |
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