[2] They were also noted in 1891 by Georg von der Gabelentz, whose observations were extensively elaborated by Hoogvliet in 1903; he does not list "Yes."
[3] One of the predominant questions concerning children and language acquisition deals with the relation between the perception and the production of a child's word usage.
[4] Holophrases are defined as a "single-word utterance which is used by a child to express more than one meaning usually attributed to that single word by adults.
(points at milk jug) - could mean “That is milk.” While children use sentence words as a default strategy due to lack of syntax and lexicon, adults tend to use sentence words in a more specialized way, generally in a specific context or to convey a certain meaning.
A subset of sentence words, which Fonagy calls "nominal phrases", exist that retain their lexical meaning.
These exist in Uralic languages, and are the remainders of an archaic syntax wherein there were no explicit markers for nouns and verbs.
for rendering the proper meaning of the original, which to a native Hungarian speaker is neither elliptical nor emphatic.
Such nominal phrase word sentences occur in English as well, particularly in telegraphese or as the rote questions that are posed to fill in form data (e.g.
The invisible section or "covert" is the syntax that is removed in order to form a one word sentence.
[15] Within sentence word syntax there are 6 different clause-types: Declarative (making a declaration), exclamative (making an exclamation), vocative (relating to a noun), imperative (a command), locative (relating to a place), and interrogative (asking a question).