specifier

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Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: spe‧ci‧fi‧er

Noun

Singular specifier

Plural specifiers

1. (linguistics) (countable) A specifier is a part of a phrase that is non-recursive and not found as a sister of the head of the phrase.

Related words

• specify

Grammar (edit)
parts of speech	noun - verb - adjective - adnoun - adverb - determinative/determiner - article - participle - pronoun - conjunction - preposition - interjection
grammatical functions	head - dependent - subject - predicate - predicator - object - complement - predicative complement - predicative adjunct - predicative oblique - appositive oblique - modifier - supplement - adjunct - determiner/specifier
clauses	main clause - dependent clause - subordinate clause - relative clause