In German and in Dutch, SVO in main clauses coexists with SOV in subordinate clauses, as given in Example 1 below ; and a change in syntax – for instance, by bringing an adpositional phrase to the front of the sentence for emphasis – may also dictate the use of VSO, as in Example 2.

Normally, the noun phrase and the adpositional phrase are investigated.

In linguistic typology, time – manner – place is a general order of adpositional phrases in a language's sentences: " yesterday ", " by car ", " to the store ".

The other common order for adpositional phrases is place – manner – time, which is exemplified by English and French.

In linguistic typology, place – manner – time is a general order of adpositional phrases in a language's sentences: " to the store by car yesterday ".

The other common adpositional order is time – manner – place ( e. g., German and Japanese )

Language syntax treats adpositional phrases as units that act as complements or adjuncts.

Objects fall into classes: direct objects, adpositional objects, and non-prepositional indirect objects.

But it is characteristic of him, we are told, `` his little artifice '', to be able to introduce `` into a fairly vulgar and humorous piece of hackwork a sudden phrase of genuine creative art ''.

A fourth view is the transformation of emotion, as in Housman's fine phrase on the arts: they `` transform and beautify our inner nature ''.

And although Schnabel's pianism bristles with excitement, it is meticulously faithful to Schubert's dynamic markings and phrase indications.

Dominant stress is of course more than extended duration, and normally centers on syllables that would have primary stress or phrase stress if the words or longer units they are parts of were spoken alone: a dominant stress given to glorify would normally center on its first syllable rather than its last.

Kent and Story, the great early American scholars, repeatedly made use of this phrase, or of `` Christian nations '', which is a substantial equivalent.

It is a phrase as arresting as a magician's gesture, with a piquant turn of harmony giving an effect of strangeness.

there is no phrase or image that sounds like Hardy or that is striking enough to give individuality to the poem.

It is true of the rhythmic pattern in which the beat shifts continuously, or at least is continuously sprung, so that it becomes ambiguous enough to allow the pattern to be dominated by the long pulsations of the phrase or strophe.

It is natural that he should turn for his major support to a select and dedicated few from the organization which actually owns the university and whose goals are, in their opinion, identified with its highest good and ( to use that oft-repeated phrase ) ' the attainment of excellence ' ''.

) `` Quoting Mr. Kennan's phrase that anything would be better than a policy which led inevitably to nuclear war, he ( Toynbee ) says that anything is better than a policy which allows for the possibility of nuclear war ''.

What was lacking was a real sense of phrase, the kind of legato singing that would have added a dimension of smoothness to what is, after all, a very oily character.

His interpretation of the Pauline phrase is that we should seek the common good more than the private good, but this is because the common good is a more desirable good for the individual.

In English writing, the phrase " a modest proposal " is now conventionally an allusion to this style of straight-faced satire.

" Heath comments that " The last phrase is curious, but the meaning of it is obvious enough, as also the meaning of the phrase about ending " at one and the same number "( Heath 1908: 300 ).

Note that this premise uses the phrase " is not ", a form of " to be "; this and many other examples show that he did not intend to abandon " to be " as such.

" American shot " is a translation of a phrase from French film criticism, " plan américain " and refers to a medium-long (" knee ") film shot of a group of characters, who are arranged so that all are visible to the camera.

The phrase " mad Arab ", sometimes with both words capitalized in Lovecraft's stories, is used so commonly before Alhazred's name that it almost constitutes a title.

An abbreviation ( from Latin brevis, meaning short ) is a shortened form of a word or phrase.

* Argument ( linguistics ), a phrase that appears in a syntactic relationship with the verb in a clause

In linguistics, some authors use the term phrase structure grammar to refer to context-free grammars, whereby phrase structure grammars are distinct from dependency grammars.

* Head ( linguistics ), the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member

In linguistics, logic, philosophy, and other fields, an intension is any property or quality connoted by a word, phrase, or another symbol.

In linguistics and grammar, a pronoun is a word or form that substitutes for a noun or noun phrase.

* Ferdinand de Saussure ( 1857 – 1913 ), the " father " of modern linguistics, proposed a dualistic notion of signs, relating the signifier as the form of the word or phrase uttered, to the signified as the mental concept.

* Redundancy ( linguistics ), the construction of a phrase that presents some idea using more information, often via multiple means, than is necessary for one to be able to understand the idea

* In linguistics, a syntax unit, either a word, phrase or clause, that modifies a noun

In linguistics, a phrase is a group of words ( or sometimes a single word ) that form a constituent and so function as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence.

In this regard, theoretical syntax abandoned phrase structure rules long ago, although their importance for computational linguistics seems to remain intact.

In linguistics, a transformational grammar or transformational-generative grammar ( TGG ) is a generative grammar, especially of a natural language, that has been developed in the Chomskyan tradition of phrase structure grammars ( as opposed to dependency grammars ).

* Agreement ( linguistics ), a form of cross-reference between different parts of a phrase

This is a noun phrase of which apples is the Head ( linguistics ) | head.

* Complement ( linguistics ), a word or phrase having a particular syntactic role

* Discourse connective, in linguistics, a word or phrase like " therefore " or " in other words ".

* Focus ( linguistics ), a concept referring to the way information in one phrase relates to information that has come before

In " Eating this cake is easy ," " eating this cake ," although traditionally known as a phrase, is referred to as a non-finite clause in modern linguistics.

In linguistics, a hyponym is a word or phrase whose semantic field is included within that of another word, its hypernym ( sometimes spelled hyperonym outside of the natural language processing community ).

In linguistics, a calque () or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal, word-for-word ( Latin: " verbum pro verbo ") or root-for-root translation.

In linguistics, stress is the relative emphasis that may be given to certain syllables in a word, or to certain words in a phrase or sentence.

The use of the phrase " terminus technicus " ( Latin " technical term ") in linguistics and literature is latently semi-ironic, in that rendering the easily understandable English " technical term " in Latin with the more difficult, and to many readers exclusive, Latin equivalent " terminus technicus " itself illustrates how technical jargon and foreign loanwords narrow the semantic focus of a term.

In linguistics, a verb phrase or VP is a syntactic unit composed of at least one verb and the dependents of that verb.

* Agreement ( linguistics ) or concord, cross-reference between parts of a phrase

In linguistics, the partitive is a word, phrase, or case that divides something into parts.