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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
  879 bytes (104 words) - 00:45, 10 August 2007
• 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.
  641 bytes (93 words) - 22:49, 13 February 2009
• 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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• User:Adli.Rifqi/Draft
  ...nds or letter at the end of a word. It affect not just only for simplified word, but also changes the way we pronounce it, as well as the sound it makes. The word "Apocope" comes from Greek word "ἀποκοπή" (apokopḗ) from "ἀποκόπτειν" (apokóptein) wh
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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
  954 bytes (147 words) - 17:49, 27 June 2014

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