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  • ...historical comparative linguist who worked on lexical comparison of a wide variety of language families and proposed a number of controversial macro-families.
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  • ...ap, i.e. they have no element in common. In linguistics, it is used with a variety of more specific meanings: * In lexical semantics, complementarity is a [[sense relation]] that holds between predi
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  • ...Grammar''' (LFG) is a grammar [[framework]] in theoretical linguistics, a variety of [[generative grammar]]. The development of the theory was initiated by [ The spelling ''Lexical-Functional Grammar'' is also used (e.g. Falk 2001, and on Joan Bresnan's ho
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  • ...], the term '''interference''' refers to the influence of one language (or variety) on another in the speech of [[bilingual]]s who use both languages. ====Lexical interference====
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  • ...of forms from an embedded variety (or varieties) in utterances of a matrix variety during the same conversation"'' (Myers-Scotton 1993:3). ...nsate for shortcomings in the matrix language. This may either make up for lexical gaps in the matrix language, or help the speaker to maintaining a smooth sp
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  • ...olinguistics sociolinguistics], the term '''register''' refers to specific lexical and grammatical choices as made by speakers depending on the situational co ...as a “variety of language according to the user”, register focuses on the “variety according to use.” Thus, register is characterized by “differences in t
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  • ...wicz, an expert in Slavonic studies, suggested using numerical measures of lexical richness (Kuraszkiewicz, Łukaszewicz 1951). His coefficient, like the one ...estimators of indices of lexical richness which were sensitive to lexical variety, but independent of the length of the text fragment under investigation (Wo
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  • ...ber, and case. (Natural) gender and number (plurality) can be expressed by lexical means if necessary, semanto-syntactic roles are indicated by syntax and ver Comparation and gradation of adjectives are partly morphologic, partly lexical. See section 4 for verbal morphology. Some vowels or nasals might undergo o
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  • 1993b. Lexical and productive causatives in Japanese: an examination of the theory of para ...nd O. Fujiwara (eds.), Preceedings of LP2000, Pragu, 2000. Item Order: Its Variety and Linguistic and Phonetic Consequences. 11-33. Pragu: Charles Unversity P
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