syntax
These data suggest that even the earliest multi-word utterances adhere to syntactic constraints.
Is it to do with the syntactic structure or to the way in which this structure is lexically manifested?
She speculates that the reason is purely syntactic, being connected with the fact that make (unlike cause) can take a "small clause", as in "You make me angry."
This adjective can go in many syntactic slots.
The correct way to phrase the search query will depend on the syntactic peculiarities of the system.

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ablative
apposition
appositive
appositively
attributively
collocate
concord
dative
feminine
genitive
indirect object
inflected
nominal
plural
plurally
post-modifier
postposition
postpositional
postpositive
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syntactic
We have permitted ourselves some syntactic flexibility in presenting the metaprogram.
We can differentiate these categories as purely lexical, rather than syntactic.
Accepting the purely syntactic part of this extremely simple analysis, let us consider the semantics of the sentence.
They contrast with syntactic representations, which are structured in terms of lexical heads and grammatical functions or relations.
Although some approaches cluster functions under different types, some approaches make use of syntactic representations.
In effect, they amount to introducing syntactic diacritics in the lexical semantic representations.
She argues, then, that learners incorporate phonological and distributional information to arrive at adult syntactic representations.
This suggests that language production can be greatly enhanced by the prior activation of relevant linguistic representations (in this case, lexical and syntactic representations).
As speakers and listeners use particular lexical, semantic, and syntactic representations, some of these representations become bound into routines.
To enable a precise symbolic cost analysis, additional syntactic restrictions are necessary.
Moreover, there are other generalizations to be made which a syntactic analysis has no straightforward way to capture.
The major syntactic difference between the two response types is phrase-structural, not transformational.
It turns out that they are not; we can take the conversion to be a syntactic identity, and thus expel the bindings from call-by-need.
Bilinguals produced both semantic and syntactic transfers in their two languages, suggesting that semantic and syntactic representations influence each other across languages during bilingual production.
The relationship between phonological sensitivity, syntactic processing, and verbal working memory in the reading performance of thirdgrade children.
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