Syntax

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4 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Syntax.

• Clause — A grammatical constituent organized around a predicative relation, typically a predicate with an expressed or contextually recoverable subject or predicand.
• Constituent (linguistics) — A word or word sequence treated as one hierarchical syntactic unit, supported by converging diagnostics such as substitution, movement, coordination, answer fragments, and theory-specific structural analysis.
• Crossover effects — Binding restrictions that arise when a moved phrase crosses a coreferential pronoun, with strong and weak forms depending on grammatical relation and representation.
• Preposition stranding — A syntactic configuration in which a preposition is separated from its selected complement, often after movement or ellipsis.