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• Sentence topic vs. discourse topic
  A distinction is often made made between the '''sentence topic''', i.e. what a sentence i
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• Absolute tense
  Rather than exhibiting a three-way distinction like the one pointed out above, many languages have a two-way split, e.g. d
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• Node (in neurocognitive linguistics)
  ...ifference in threshold. (Cf. [[threshold node]].) Narrow notation has no distinction between ordered and unordered nodes; an account of ordering is provided by
  2 KB (353 words) - 06:31, 2 December 2017
• Error analysis
  ...there is an [[error]] at all, and if so, what exactly constitutes it. The distinction between [[error]] and [[mistake]] cannot easily be made either. Secondly, t
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• Performative
  Due to the fact that the distinction between performatives and constatives is questionable in several ways, Aust ...e notion of ‘performative’, which was based on the performative/constative distinction, has thus been replaced with more general families of related and overlappi
  10 KB (1,477 words) - 13:07, 2 March 2018
• Register (discourse)
  ...make use of this term. Yet, Quirk et. al. (1989, 25) present a “five-term distinction” to categorize linguistic varieties, and, thus, they narrow down the rang ...r close friends. However, Quirk et. al. point out that the inner three-way distinction of formal – neutral – informal is chiefly used to designate language.
  16 KB (2,262 words) - 16:59, 22 May 2013
• Ambiguity, Polysemy and Vagueness
  ...monymy. However, as e.g. Langacker (1991) points out, there is a clear-cut distinction between these two (p. 268). Polysemous lexems always share the same etymolo
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• Coherence
  Text linguistics is concerned with the distinction between the terms 'cohesion' and 'coherence' (cf. Halliday 1994: 308-309; s ...hers by F. Daneš and Brown & Yule: 125pp.) whereas others make a clear-cut distinction between theme-rheme and topic-comment. Halliday(1994: 38) argues that topic
  16 KB (2,344 words) - 11:49, 20 May 2013
• Code-switching
  In situations of code-switching a distinction is made between the [[matrix language]] and the [[embedded language]]. The
  10 KB (1,391 words) - 15:32, 31 January 2010
• Tenses of English
  ...ere are only two tenses, namely ‘past’ and ‘non-past’, as this is the only distinction that is reflected morphologically.
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• Hadza
  ...ies. There is only a two-way VOT distinction after a nasal coda. A /b/~/p/ distinction has not been found in post-nasal position despite /b/ being native. ...y a few words that contrast /k/ and /kʰ/, but maintain a robust aspiration distinction in affricates and clicks. The reason for this asymmetry is unknown.
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• Tsez
  Tsez is an [[ergative-absolutive language]] which means that it makes no distinction between the subject of an intransitive sentence and the object of a transit ...have the same forms for all four noun classes, while the plurals make this distinction, as shown in the chart below.
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• Kaili (en)
  ...ther than morphological means. It should therefore rather be regarded as a distinction between realis for (factual) actions in the present or past from irrealis w
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