phi-feature

English

Alternative forms

• phi feature, ϕ-feature

Etymology

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Noun

phi-feature (plural phi-features)

1. (linguistics, generative grammar) A grammatical feature that is usually exhibited in predicate-argument agreement, such as person, number, or gender.

Translations

grammatical feature such as person or number

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