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PRONUNCIATION OF PIED-PIPING

pied-piping play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PIED-PIPING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pied-Piping is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PIED-PIPING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Pied-piping

In linguistics, pied-piping is a phenomenon of syntax whereby a given focused expression takes an entire encompassing phrase with it when it is "moved". The term itself is due to John Robert Ross; it is a reference to the Pied Piper of Hamelin, the figure of fairy tales who lured rats by playing his flute. Pied-piping is an aspect of discontinuities in syntax, having to do with the constituents that can and cannot be discontinuous. While pied-piping is most visible in cases of wh-fronting of information questions and relative clauses, it is not limited to wh-fronting, but rather it can be construed as occurring with most any type of discontinuity. Most if not all languages that allow discontinuities employ pied-piping to some extent, although there are major differences across languages in this area, some languages employing pied-piping much more than others.

Definition of pied-piping in the English dictionary

The definition of pied-piping in the dictionary is the principle that a noun phrase may take with it the rest of a prepositional phrase or a larger noun phrase in which it is contained, when moved in a transformation. For example, when the interrogative pronoun is moved to initial position, other words are moved too, as in to whom did you speak?.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PIED-PIPING

piecework
pieceworker
piecrust
piecrust table
pied
pied flycatcher
Pied Piper
Pied Piper of Hamelin
pied shag
pied wagtail
pied-billed grebe
piedfort
piedmont
Piedmontese
piedmontite
piedness
pieman
piemen
Piemonte
piemontite

WORDS THAT END LIKE PIED-PIPING

camping
dropping
gossiping
griping
helping
housekeeping
keeping
landscaping
lead piping
mapping
ping
piping
shipping
shopping
sleeping
sniping
stopping
Taiping
thraiping
typing

Synonyms and antonyms of pied-piping in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «pied-piping» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PIED-PIPING

Find out the translation of pied-piping to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of pied-piping from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pied-piping» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

花衣服,管道
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pied- de tuberías
570 millions of speakers

English

pied-piping
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

विचित्र - पाइपिंग
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بييه - الأنابيب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

пестрая - труб
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pied- de tubulação
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

Pied-বংশীধ্বনিতুল্য
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

pied- tuyauterie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pied-piping
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Aufenthaltsort, Rohrleitungen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

随伴
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

얼룩덜룩 한 - 배관
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pied-piping
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

pied - đường ống
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பல வண்ணங்களால் ஆன-குழாய்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पाईपिंग
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

pied-boru
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pied - piping
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

przystanią rurociągów
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

строката - труб
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pied - conducte
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

βάση σωληνώσεις
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

pied - pype
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

pied - rörledning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

pied - rør
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pied-piping

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PIED-PIPING»

The term «pied-piping» is used very little and occupies the 188.508 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PIED-PIPING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about pied-piping

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PIED-PIPING»

Discover the use of pied-piping in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pied-piping and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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On Pied-Piping: Wh-Movement and Beyond
On Pied-Piping argues that this assessment is not correct. The book presents a compilation of crosslinguistic generalizations on pied-piping and a theory that derives them.
Fabian Heck, 2008
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The Grammar of Q: Q-Particles, Wh-Movement, and Pied-Piping
one in which the restrictions on pied-piping structures ultimately follow from a requirement that Q undergo Agreement with the wh-word. Moreover, we will see that this account lays the groundwork for treatments of two related phenomena: ...
Seth Cable, 2010
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The Grammar of Q: Q-Particles, Wh-Movement, and Pied-Piping
'The Grammar of Q' puts forth a novel syntactic & semantic analysis of wh-questions, based on an in-depth study of the Tlingit language, an endangered & under-documented Native American tongue.
Seth Cable, 2010
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Explorations in Corpus Linguistics
In the data examined here, however, variation between, in this case, pied piping and preposition stranding is mainly found with adverbial expressions of place, as in (31) and (32) above (cf. Section 3.1). Sopher (1974: 77) comments on the fact ...
Antoinette Renouf, 1998
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The Language of Daily Life in England (1400-1800)
Informants Pied piping Preposition stranding By 64%, pied piping is a significantly more common construction than preposition stranding (p<0.01). Both are low-frequency items, and preposition stranding particularly so; it can be fairly reliably ...
Arja Nurmi, Minna Nevala, Minna Palander-Collin, 2009
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Toward Second Language Acquisition: A Study of Null-Prep
2.2 Pied-piping and preposition stranding in 12 acquisition Despite the disagreements, complexities, and unresolved problems in the linguistic analysis of piping and stranding in English, L2 acquisition researchers have generally followed ...
E.C. Klein, 1993
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The Acquisition of Scrambling and Cliticization
Why will the D-element in the German type of language never strand its N- complement and have obligatory pied-piping? This is a learning issue since the D-element in the Polish type of languages may strand its N-complement and not apply ...
S.M. Powers, C. Hamann, 2000
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Language Acquisition: The Growth of Grammar
By adopting the hypothesis in (81), we considerably reduce the difference between the child and adult grammars; what needs to be explained is why children use general-purpose operators and avoid prepositional pied-piping. The problem ...
Maria Teresa Guasti, 2004
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Principles and Parameters of Syntactic Saturation
4.1 The Theoretical Relevance of the Pied Piping Phenomenon In Chapter 3 we dealt with some problems in the syntax of clausal arguments. Before we turn to nonclausal arguments in the next chapter, we will concern ourselves here with the ...
Gert Webelhuth, 1992
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The Derivation of VO and OV
The movement is triggered by selection, expressed syntactically as feature- movement from the selectee to the selector, pied-piping the selectee head or pied-piping nothing in the case of head-initial phrases, pied-piping the entire phrase ...
Peter Svenonius, 2000

5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PIED-PIPING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pied-piping is used in the context of the following news items.
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Tanu Weds Manu Returns Song Writer Raj Shekhar: The Man With …
The songwriter is pied-piping his way through listeners again with Tanu Weds Manu Returns. Talking to Focusnews.com, Raj Shekhar said it ... «Focus News, May 15»
2
'Where's Wally?' not satirical enough for you? Sounds like you need …
... bevy of besotted ladies away from Downing Street like (and we imagine this is how he'd describe it) some rambunctious pied-piping deviant. «BT.com, Apr 15»
3
Talking About Grammar Pedantry
... relax about some of the stylistic variation that is available to us as writers (e.g., ending a sentence with a preposition or pied-piping it — That's ... «Chronicle of Higher Education, Mar 15»
4
Steven Pinker: 10 'grammar rules' it's OK to break (sometimes)
The pied-piping rule allows the "what" to pull the "at" with it to the front of the ... Most obviously, pied-piping sounds better in a formal style. «The Guardian, Aug 14»
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CNNMoney.com: Wall Street - The dark theory
... era of "Bullnomics: the pied-piping of America toward a misleading financial ideology (the efficiency and reliability of markets), buttressed by ... «thestockmasters, Sep 08»

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