Sentence examples for grammatical feature from inspiring English sources

A grammatical feature common to many of the Khoisan languages is the use of verb compounds where English would use a preposition or a single verb.

Bloomfield defined form classes, rather imprecisely, in terms of some common "recognizable phonetic or grammatical feature" shared by all the members.

Some linguists once argued that ergativity represented a "deep" grammatical feature of at least some Australian languages, such as Dyirbal, whose syntax could then be thought of as a kind of mirror image of the subject-object syntax of English and most other languages.

So although this student needed support during both sessions, his level of understanding and control over the grammatical feature apparently changed.

The grammatical feature of yǒu kěnéng is comparable to that of yǒu yòng 'have use', which is a typical adjective meaning 'useful'useful

Since Aristotle regards tense as part of the truth-bearer (as opposed to merely a grammatical feature), he detects a problem regarding future tense sentences about contingent matters: Does the principle that of an affirmation and its negation one must be false, the other true apply to these?

Iranian differs from Indo-Aryan in grammatical features as well.

It's a distinct national dialect, with words and grammatical features that are unfamiliar elsewhere.

Grammatical features demonstrate that both languages are related to Hittite and belong to the Anatolian group.

The function of tone varies from language to language; sometimes it marks grammatical features, sometimes lexical contrasts.

They share some lexical and grammatical features with Mandarin, but are roughly as similar only as English is to Dutch.