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object

Grammatical term; argument in a proposition

EntityQ175026

Also known as object (traditional grammar) · OBJ

Subclass of: sentence constituent

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In linguistics, an object is any of several types of arguments. In subject-prominent, nominative-accusative languages such as English, a transitive verb typically distinguishes between its subject and any of its objects, which can include but are not limited to direct objects, indirect objects, and arguments of adpositions ; the latter are more accurately termed oblique arguments, thus including other arguments not covered by core grammatical roles, such as those governed by case morphology or relational nouns . In ergative-absolutive languages, for example most Australian Aboriginal languages, the term "subject" is ambiguous, and thus the term "agent" is often used instead to contrast with "object", such that basic word order is described as agent–object–verb (AOV) instead of subject–object–verb (SOV). Topic-prominent languages, such as Mandarin, focus their grammars less on the subject-object or agent-object dichotomies but rather on the pragmatic dichotomy of topic and comment.

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Partially coincident with: patient
Different from: Dopełnienie
complement
Short name: OBJ
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Sources
1.“Dept. of Linguistics | Resources | Glossing Rules”eva.mpg.de/lingua/resources/glossing-rules.phpRetrieved 2023-01-06
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Main Wikidata property: objects of occurrence have role

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