French/English Glossary of Linguistic Terms

French word list

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	phonologique
	phonologisation
	phonologue
	phonométrie
	phonostylistique
	phonotactique
	phonotaxe
	phrase
	phrase agrammaticale
	phrase analytique
	phrase complète
	phrase grammaticale
	phrase injonctive
	phrase non verbale
	phrase potentielle

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sentence₁

Fr    phrase

nS

Antonym(s): utterance₁

Kinds: declarative sentence, exclamatory sentence, imperative sentence, interrogative sentence

Related term(s): clause, langue

Domain: Syntax

Source(s): Akmajian etal. 1984: 162-163; Beaugrande & Dressler 1981: 49; Benveniste 1971[trans.]: 108-111; Brown & Yule 1983: 19; Clark & Clark 1977: 10-11; Cook 1969: 39-40; Crystal 2003: 414-415; Dell 1980[trans.]: 22-23; Eggins 1994: 129 (=clause complex); ELL: 1479-1480, 5169-5170; Finch 2000: 115-118; Greimas 1983[trans.]: 81; Grimes 1975: 2-3; Halliday 1994: 23, 215-216 (= clause complex); Hamp 1963: 52; Hartmann & Stork 1972: 206; Levinson 1983: 18-19; Lyons 1971: 172-173; Martinet 1964[trans.]: 122; Matthews 1981: 26-27; Matthews 1997: 246 (non-sentence), 337-338; Nash 1968: 211; Onishi 1981: 498-499; Palmatier 1972: 159-160; Pei & Gaynor 1954: 147 (non-sentence), 194; Pike & Pike 1982: 456-457; Quirk etal. 1985: 47-48; Richards etal. 1992: 330; Ruwet 1973[trans.]: 25-26; Saussure 1959[trans.]: 106, 124; Trask 1993: 250-251; Wales 1989: 418-419

Sub-entries:

• active sentence
• affirmative sentence
• analytic sentence
• basic sentence
• cleft sentence
• complete sentence
• complex sentence
• compound sentence
• constituent sentence
• copular sentence
• declarative sentence
• dependent sentence
• derived sentence
• elliptical sentence
• embedded sentence
• equational sentence
• equative sentence
• exclamatory sentence
• existential sentence
• favorite sentence
• full sentence
• garden path sentence
• grammatical sentence
• imperative sentence
• incomplete sentence
• independent sentence
• interrogative sentence
• kernel sentence
• major sentence
• matrix sentence
• minor sentence
• negative sentence
• nominal sentence
• non-favorite sentence
• passive sentence
• periodic sentence
• phonological sentence
• positive sentence
• possessive sentence
• potential sentence
• pseudo-cleft sentence
• simple sentence
• synthetic sentence
• ungrammatical sentence
• verbal sentence
• well-formed sentence

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English word list

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	Semitic
	Semitic language
	semi(-)vowel
	semotactics
	sender
	sense1
	sense2
	sentence1
	sentence2
	sentence topic
	sentence-level
	sentential
	sentential subject
	separability
	separable

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