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Goal Means Date Initiated Date Ended Extent Results Articles revised and expanded Adjunct (grammar) Increasing Exposure to Dependency Answer ellipsis Adjective phrase Adjunct (grammar) Antecedent contained… Antecedent-contained deletion Argument (linguistics) Argument (linguistics) Auxiliary verb Auxiliary verb Grammar via Wikipedia Branching (linguistics) Branching (linguistics) Catena (linguistics) Clause Timothy Osborne Clause Comparative Complement (linguistics) Complement (linguistics) Constituent (linguistics) Constituent (linguistics) Control (linguistics) Control (linguistics) Coordination (linguistics) Coordination (linguistics) Goal Means Extent Results Dependent-marking… Dependency grammar Date initiated Discontinuity (linguistics) Do-support Do-support Dependent-marking language To increase The number of page Ellipsis (linguistics) Create, revise, and November 2011 More than 70 articles Ellipsis (linguistics) Exceptional case-marking Endocentric exposure views for the articles Extrap. Exceptional case-marking expand Wikipedia were impacted Finite verb Date ended Gapping Finite verb touched by the Gapping to DG using articles on syntax by the initiative. Government (linguistics) Government (linguistics) March 2013 Grammatical relation Grammatical relation initiative has increased Head (linguistics) Head (linguistics) Wikipedia and grammar, Idiom Head-marking language significantly. Immediate constituent… Idiom Inverse copular… Immediate constituent adding the DG Inversion (linguistics) Lexical item analysis Inverse copular Light verb constructions Inversion Merge (linguistics) perspective Modal verb Lexical item Movement paradox Light verb Non-configurational… Merge (linguistics) Main article on dependency grammar Main article on phrase structure grammar Non-finite verb Modal verb Noun phrase Movement paradox 4500 5000 Parse tree Non-configurational language Periphrasis Non-finite verb To raise awareness 4500 4000 Phrasal verb Noun phrase Phrase Object (grammar) of the distinction 4000 3500 Phrase structure grammar Parse tree between Average Predicate (grammar) Periphrasis 3500 dependency- and 3000 Pseudogapping Phrasal verb percentage Raising (linguistics) Phrase 3000 constiuency-based Scrambling (linguistics) 2500 increase for Phrase structure grammar Sentence diagram Phrase structure rules 2500 grammars, both the the articles of Separable verb Predicate (grammar) DG and the PSG 2000 Initiative starts Shifting (linguistics) Raising (linguistics) 2000 the inititiative Sluicing Scrambling (linguistics) Initiative starts articles were revised 1500 in the year Small clause Separable verb 1500 and expanded and Subcategorization Sentence diagram Subject-auxiliary inversion 1000 was +51%. Sluicing 1000 frequently linked to Subordination (linguistics) Small clause Syntactic category Subcategorization 500 in the other articles. 500 Syntactic relation Subject (grammar) V2 word order Subject-auxiliary inversion 0 0 Valency (linguistics) Subordination (linguistics) 2.11 3.11 4.11 5.11 6.11 7.11 8.11 9.11 1.12 2.12 3.12 4.12 5.12 6.12 7.12 8.12 9.12 1.13 2.13 3.13 1.11 Verb phrase 1.11 2.11 3.11 4.11 5.11 6.11 7.11 8.11 9.11 1.12 2.12 3.12 4.12 5.12 6.12 7.12 8.12 9.12 1.13 2.13 3.13 10.10 11.10 12.10 10.11 11.11 12.11 10.12 11.12 12.12 11.10 12.10 10.11 11.11 12.11 10.12 11.12 12.12 Syntactic category 10.10 Verb phrase ellipsis Syntactic movement Wh-movement Valency (linguistics) Verb phrase Number of page views received per month by -100 0 100 200 300 400 500 Verb phrase ellipsis Percentage increase in the V2 word order the article Dependency grammar from October Wh-movement number of page views for each X-bar theory 2010 through March 2013 Monthly totals for revised articles of 59 of the articles from March 600000 Chart shows the total 2012 to March 2013 Articles newly number of page views created 500000 Answer ellipsis per month for all articles Catena (linguistics) touched by the initiative. Ablaut Discontinuity (linguistics) 400000 Active voice Extraposition The time period shown Negative inversion is March 2012 to March Antecedent… Noun ellipsis Numerous trees like 300000 Clitic Pied-piping 2013. The increase was Dangling modifier Predicative expression this one from the +39%. Pseudogapping article Government 200000 Gerund Right node raising Selection (linguistics) were Grammatical case Shifting Average increase for 10 added to the articles 100000 Grammatical gender Stripping (linguistics) randomly chosen Subject-verb inversion Passive voice Topicalization articles not touched by Simple sentence 0 the initiative, +29%. 3.12 4.12 5.12 6.12 7.12 8.12 9.12 10.12 11.12 12.12 1.13 2.13 3.13 -20 0 20 40 60 80 100.
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