attributive clauses are tightly connected with a certain word of the main clause performing the function of its attribute.

are understood to be learned on the basis of the input and general cognitive mechanisms (they are constructed), and are expected to vary cross linguistically.

The is the event with which all other events mentioned in the sentence are correlated in time.

The relation of the thought of a sentence to the situation of speech is called .

A is a sentence that contains at least two independent clauses (complete thoughts) joined together, typically by a coordinating conjunction or a semicolon.

Words in a sentence, with zero connections, referring to the sentence as a whole and known as , are a distinct part of the sentence.

While refers to the logical flow of ideas, cohesion refers to the explicit linguistic choices – such as word order, pronouns, and determiners – that physically link those ideas together.

The is the independent member of a two-member predication, containing the person component of predicativity.

The is the person with whom other persons and things mentioned in the sentence are correlated.

are normally regarded as peripheral elements in the clause; they are always optional, they are the most mobile elements (they can occupy different positions), and they do not determine what else must occur in the clause.