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1. Subject

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   The Subject is a fundamental syntactic and semantic constituent within propositional structures across numerous natural and artificial languages. Syntactically, the Subject typically refers to the nominal phrase that governs the predicate's inflection, often manifesting agreement markers for number, person, and, in some linguistic isolates, degrees of metaphysical certainty (see Epistemic Case). Semantically, the Subject is conventionally understood as the agent, experiencer, or topic of the propo…