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25: 820:, which can have a value of either "singular" or "plural". As a result, we can describe the English pronoun "they" as a pronoun with and . Third person singular pronouns in English also have a 869:, syntactic features are represented alongside grammatical functions at the level of functional structure (f-structure), which takes the form of an attribute-value matrix. 646: 895:. Semantic features can include and . These features may in some instances be realised morphologically, in which case they may also be called 827:
Different lexical categories realise or are specified for different grammatical features: for example, verbs in English are specified for
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features, as well as person and number. The features that a category realises can also differ from language to language.
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There is often a correspondence between morphological and syntactic features, in that certain features, such as
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In formal models of grammar, features can be represented as attribute-value pairs. For example, in
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Surface representations can be expressed as the result of rules acting on the features of the
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or distinctive features are: , (binary features) and (a unary feature; also a
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conditions which act as constraints in various forms of linguistic analysis.
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is any characteristic used to classify a phoneme or word. These are often
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of "first", "second", or "third". English pronouns also have the
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Any characteristic used to classify a phoneme or word
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Grammatical features
Animacy
Case
Dative construction
Dative shift
Quirky subject
Nominative
Comitative
Instrumental
Classifier
Measure word
Construct state
Count noun
Mass noun
Collective noun
Definiteness
Gender
Genitive construction
Possession

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