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Phi features

In linguistics, especially within generative grammar, phi features (denoted with the Greek letter φ 'phi') are the morphological expression of a semantic process in which a word or morpheme varies with the form of another word or phrase in the same sentence. This variation can include person, number, or gender as encoded in pronominal agreement with…

Agreement on verbs, Agreement on nouns & Phi features as categorizing features

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Agreement on verbs

Null-subject languageItalianCliticMohawkIbibio
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Agreement on nouns

ChomskyEnglishPluralSalish HalkomelemGerman
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Phi features as categorizing features

Distributed MorphologyX-bar theoryAdpositionsInflectionsParts of speech
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LinguisticsGenerative grammarMorphologicalSemanticMorpheme
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Phi features as categorizing features

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Phi features

Nodes42
Edges41
Triples11
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.047619
Components1

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agreement english person verb number gender features languages phi-features verbs noun nouns root lexical nominal also subject word language tense

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
French posit in a level on the syntactic structure that is silentinstance ofsome theories suggest that reflexive phi-features for languages0.80text
between the determinerinstance ofsome theories suggest that reflexive phi-features for languages0.80text
the nouninstance ofsome theories suggest that reflexive phi-features for languages0.80text
Italianinstance ofIn a null-subject language0.80text
howeverinstance ofIn a null-subject language0.80text
pronominal subjects are not requiredinstance ofIn a null-subject language0.80text
Englishinstance ofIn languages0.80text
verbs agree with their subjectsinstance ofIn languages0.80text
not their objectsinstance ofIn languages0.80text
hammer is a root-derived forminstance ofA verb0.80text
meaning that it can appear within an NP or within a VPinstance ofA verb0.80text

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