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Subordination (linguistics)

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In linguistics, subordination is a complex syntactic construction in which one or more clauses are dependent on the main clause, such as The dog ran home after it had played with the ball. The italicized text is the subordinate clause. The grammatical structure associated with subordination is hypotaxis, or the grammatical arrangement of "unequal" constructs (hypo="beneath", taxis="arrangement").... Read enhanced Wikipedia article
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    Subordination (linguistics)

    In linguistics, subordination is a complex syntactic construction in which one or more clauses are dependent on the main clause, such as The dog ran home after it had played with the ball.
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    Subordination

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    Sign (linguistics)

    The “freedom” stressed in the U.S. places emphasis on the individual, unhampered, and this viewpoint persists despite workplaces that require subordination and laws that refine freedom’s limits. ... Linguistics
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    Coordination (linguistics)

    Coordination can be contrasted with subordination, a complex structure in which the component parts do not have parallel functions. ... Linguistics stubs
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    Semantics

    Another set of concepts related to fuzziness in semantics is based on prototypes. ... The Course of General Linguistics (Cours de linguistique générale).
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    Prototype Theory

    This was a problem for extensional semantics, where the semantics of a word such as red is to be defined as the set of objects having this property. ... | Linguistics |
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    Grammatical mood

    For example, the subjunctive and optative moods in Ancient Greek alternate syntactically in many subordinate clauses, depending on the tense of the main verb. ... | Linguistics |
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    Linguistic prescription

    Both educators and parents often agree that mastery of a prestige variety of the language is one of the goals of education. ... | Theoretical linguistics |
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    Kiowa-Tanoan languages

    International Journal of American Linguistics, 74 (2), 155–188. ... Subordination and ablaut in Kiowa-Tanoan.
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    Franz Boas

    Linguistics ... There are two things to which I am devoted: absolute academic and spiritual freedom, and the subordination of the state to the interests of the individual; expressed in other forms, the furthering of conditions in which the individual can develop to the best of his ability — as far as it is possible with a full understanding of the fetters imposed upon us by tradition; and the fight against all forms of power policy of states or private organizations.

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