Semantic Relations in Two-Word Speech (Brown, 1973)

Relation Example

Nomination That ball

Recurrence More ball

Nonexistence Allgone ball

Agent-action Daddy hit

Action-object Hit ball

Agent-object Daddy ball

Action-locative Go store

Entity-locative Book table

Possessor-Possession Daddy chair

Entity-Attribute Big house

Demonstrative-Entity That box

Nomination = "That is a ball"

Demonstrative-Entity = "That box…(is on the table)"