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• Cranberry morpheme
  ...ning nor a grammatical function, but nonetheless serves to distinguish one word from the other. ...nd does not function as an independent [[word]]: ''cranberry'' is the only word in which ''cran'' appears.
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• Bound morpheme
  ...subpart of a word, i.e. an element which cannot function as an independent word or free morpheme. ...an [[affix]] but a [[root]] (since [[affix]]es may attach to it, forming a word) also cannot occur freely in syntax and may be called a bound morpheme for
  875 bytes (140 words) - 09:39, 24 March 2008
• Polysemy in quantitative linguistics
  ...[[Quantitative Linguistics]] as the number of different [[meaning]]s or [[function]]s of a linguistic unit. ...nt ways, depending on the kind of linguistic unit. E.g., the polysemy of a word may be operationalised as the number of meanings given in a specific dictio
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• Adposition
  ...(its [[complement]]) and indicates the [[semantic role]] or [[grammatical function]] of the complement. The terms for the two main subtypes, [[preposition]] a
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• Function composition
  ...head satisfies a [[theta-role]] of the [[head]]. The non-head of a complex word headed by an affix, however, does not satisfy a theta-role of the affix; ra ...degree" argument R, as in (i). Since -''ness'' is assumed to be a functor, function composition yields the composed argument structure in (ii):
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• Incorporation
  ...irect object or adverbial modifier, while retaining its original syntactic function. Chukchee, a paleosiberian language spoken in North Eastern Siberia, provid * Baker, M. 1988. ''Incorporation: A Theory of Grammatical Function Changing,'' University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
  987 bytes (138 words) - 17:00, 15 February 2009
• Pronoun
  ...function of the substantive. So its meaning is variable and depends on the word which is replacing. Languages organize their pronouns into pronominal syste
  485 bytes (61 words) - 06:47, 10 August 2014
• Minimal word constraint
  ...syllable]]s (like ''letter'' [lɛtə], ''city'' [sɪti]). ([[Function word]]s may be shorter than two moras, though in English this only occurs with t French, unlike English, does not possess a minimal word constraint: accordingly French lexical words may consist of a single light
  873 bytes (140 words) - 16:16, 13 July 2014
• Metanalysis
  ...etanalysis''' is the [[reinterpretation]] of the relation between form and function within an utterance. Metanalysis is one of the four mechanisms of form-function reanalysis established by Croft (2000).
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• Marker
  ...'''marker''' is often loosely used for a grammatical element or [[function word]] such as a [[particle]], and [[affix]], an [[adposition]] that ''marks'' s
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• Functor
  ...using a functor, say F, and write '''y''<nowiki>=F(</nowiki>''x'')'. See [[Function composition]]. * Di Sciullo, A. M. and E. Williams 1987. ''On the Definition of Word,'' MIT-press, Cambridge, Mass.
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• Free morpheme
  A '''free morpheme''' is a [[morpheme]] which can function as an [[free form]]. In this respect free morphemes are opposed to [[bound The English word ''dog'' is a free morpheme.
  487 bytes (64 words) - 13:21, 14 February 2009
• Semantic compositionality
  ...semantic compositionality''' if the [[meaning]] of a [[complex word]] is a function of the meanings of its [[constituent]]s.
  440 bytes (61 words) - 18:18, 28 October 2014
• Word
  ...curs between two spaces in the spelling or the linguist's description (= [[word-form]]). *[[lexeme]] (= a dictionary word)
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• Cohort model
  In phonetics, a '''cohort model''' is a theory of auditory word recognition. ...ally appropriate word over its competitors early on in the processing of a word. Only later, when a small number of candidates still fits the sensory input
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• Argument structure
  ...ion. But it is a lexical level of information in that it ignores syntactic-function-changing operations such as passivization. Thus, ''The dog bit the cat'' an * Di Sciullo, A. M. and E. Williams 1987. ''On the Definition of Word,'' MIT-press, Cambridge, Mass.
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• Co-analysis
  ...Sciullo & Williams (1987) to account for a situation where one grammatical function (e.g. [[possessive]]) is expressed syntactically as well as morphologically *Di Sciullo, A. M. & Williams, E. 1987. ''On the Definition of Word.'' Cambridge, Mass: MIT-press.
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• Appositive noun phrase
  :::''"In pragmatically ordered languages, separate noun phrases can function somewhat differently than in languages without bound pronouns. They typica ...992. Is basic word order universal? In: Payne, Doris (ed.) ''Pragmatics of word order flexibility.'' Amsterdam: Benjamins, 15-61.
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• Deponency
  ...y''' has recently been used for a mismatch between the expected and actual function of a morphological form or paradigm. ...k masculine agreement and vice versa. In Serbo-Croatian, the plural of the word ‘child’ (and some other words designating the young of animals) has the
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• Word Structure Autonomy Condition
  '''Word Structure Autonomy Condition''' is a condition proposed in Selkirk (1982) w *[http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Word+Structure+Autonomy+Condition&lemmacode=99 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]
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