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- 15:46, 30 August 2007 diff hist +464 N Object plus infinitive New page: The term '''object plus infinitive''' (abbreviated ''OPI'') is used in Kemmer (1993:85) as a more general term referring not only to accusative and infinitive constructions but also da... current
- 15:45, 30 August 2007 diff hist +448 N Object New page: {{stub}} The term '''object''' is sometimes used as a general term for a non-subject argument. ===Comments=== Using the terms direct object and indirect object as indepe...
- 15:12, 29 August 2007 diff hist +920 N Numeral New page: A '''numeral''' is a member of a word class whose members are used to express numbers in one way or another (for counting objects, counting events, or expressing the position in a sequ...
- 15:12, 29 August 2007 diff hist +971 N Number New page: {{Stub}} '''Number''' is an inflectional dimension used on countable referring expressions to designate the number of referents concerned. Languages differ...
- 15:11, 29 August 2007 diff hist +273 N Nucleus vs. satellite New page: The term pair '''nucleus vs. satellite''' was introduced by Seiler (1960:9) for what is now commonly known as head vs. dependent. === Reference === *Seiler, Hansjakob. 1960. ''Relativ...
- 15:07, 29 August 2007 diff hist +805 N Noun clause New page: A '''noun clause''' is a clause that functions in the same way as a noun phrase, i.e. generally as an argument, so that ''noun clause'' is basically a synonym of [[complement claus... current
- 15:05, 29 August 2007 diff hist +1,050 N Northern Turkic New page: [this article is preliminary and needs to be corrected; it serves primarily illustrative purposes] {{InfoboxFamily| |Family=Northern Turkic |Highest=Altaic |Genus=Turkic |MPIExt1=... current
- 15:02, 29 August 2007 diff hist +9 Nordsaamisch +cate
- 15:01, 29 August 2007 diff hist +16,205 N Nordsaamisch New page: {{Infobox_Sprache| Sprache=Nord-Saami |Länder=Finnland, Schweden, Norwegen |Sprecher= 15.000(Norwegen); 30.000(insgesamt) |Klassifikation= *Uralisch **Saamisch ***Zentralsa...
- 14:59, 29 August 2007 diff hist +200 N Nonfinite New page: See finite vs. nonfinite. ===Synonym=== *infinite (this is an older term that is now obsolete) ===Other languages=== German infinit, nichtfinit {{dc}} [[Category:Verbal ...
- 14:59, 29 August 2007 diff hist +1,224 N Nominative case (citation form) New page: The term '''nominative case''' is sometimes used to denote the citation form of the noun, regardless of its uses. (For the more common definition of ''nominative'', see [[nominative ca...
- 14:58, 29 August 2007 diff hist +390 N Nonce borrowing New page: {{stub}} The term '''nonce borrowing''' refers to the use of a word from another language than the main language of the utterance, which has not become an established part of this languag...
- 14:57, 29 August 2007 diff hist +219 N Nominal New page: {{Stub}} The noun '''nominal''' is sometimes used as equivalent of noun phrase. ===Origin=== This is presumably an abbreviation of ''nominal phrase'', ''nominal expression'', or simil... current
- 14:56, 29 August 2007 diff hist +121 N Nikolaus Himmelmann New page: ===Link=== [http://www.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/~himmelmann/ Homepage] Himmelmann, Nikolaus
- 14:55, 29 August 2007 diff hist +1,679 N Negative polarity item New page: A '''negative polarity item''' is an expression that is restricted to negative contexts and some other semantically related such as questions and conditional clauses although its seman...
- 14:54, 29 August 2007 diff hist +1,948 N Negative concord New page: '''Negative concord''' is a widespread term for cases where negative indefinite pronouns cooccur with a separate expression of sentential negation. ::*''"...the ‘concord of nega...
- 14:53, 29 August 2007 diff hist +451 N Natural language New page: {{stub}} A '''natural language''' is a language that is used by humans for ordinary purposes of communication. The term is used only in special contexts where formal languages of math...
- 14:50, 29 August 2007 diff hist +250 N Natural class New page: {{stub}} In phonology, a '''natural class''' of segments is a set of segments that behave in the same way with respect to some phonological regularity. ===Other languages=== German [[nat...
- 14:48, 29 August 2007 diff hist +479 N Natural New page: The adjective '''natural''' is used in a variety of different contexts in linguistics: * in the phonological term natural class * in the term natural language * with reference to l... current
- 14:43, 29 August 2007 diff hist +819 N Native word New page: A '''native word''' is a word (or more precisely, lexeme) that was not borrowed from another language, but was inherited from an earlier stage of the langu... current
- 14:42, 29 August 2007 diff hist +227 NP +comments
- 09:33, 28 August 2007 diff hist -160 User:Luo Removing all content from page
- 09:27, 28 August 2007 diff hist +160 N User:Luo New page: Yan Luo was educated at the University of Leipzig (Master of Arts in Linguistics and German as a Foreign Language). She is assistant of Prof. Martin Haspelmath.
- 08:49, 28 August 2007 diff hist +2,356 N Motherese New page: The language addressed to children by their caretakers is often called '''motherese'''. ::*''"...many parents (and some child psychologists who should know better) think that mothers prov...
- 08:48, 28 August 2007 diff hist +653 N Morphologisches Wort New page: Ein '''morphologisches Wort''' ist ein Wort, das nach morphologischen Kriterien definiert wird, im Gegensatz zum phonologischen Wort oder zum [[orthografisches...
- 08:44, 28 August 2007 diff hist +88 N Morphologie New page: {{stub}} ===Andere Sprachen=== English Morphology {{wb}} !
- 08:44, 28 August 2007 diff hist +190 N Moravcsik 1978b New page: Moravcsik, Edith A. 1978b. Reduplicative constructions. In: Greenberg, Joseph H. (ed.) ''Universals of Human Language. Vol. 3. Word Structure.'' Stanford: Stanford University Press, 297-33...
- 08:43, 28 August 2007 diff hist +104 N Monica Macaulay New page: ===Link=== [http://ling.wisc.edu/~macaulay/monica.html Homepage] Macaulay, Monica
- 08:42, 28 August 2007 diff hist +412 N Modifier (i.e. dependent) New page: In syntax, the term '''modifier''' was sometimes used in the sense of dependent. ===Comments=== This usage is found, for example, in Fries (1952:202ff.) and Hawkins (1983). It is ...
- 08:42, 28 August 2007 diff hist +930 N Modality New page: '''Modality''' is a very vague concept that refers to the way in which a speaker uses a proposition in a discourse context. It is a cover term for concepts relating to [[illocutio... current
- 08:41, 28 August 2007 diff hist +144 N Miriam Butt New page: '''Miriam Butt''' is a living linguist. ===Link=== [http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/butt/ Homepage] Butt, Miriam
- 08:40, 28 August 2007 diff hist +818 N Minimalist Program New page: {{stub}} The '''Minimalist Program''' is a set of programmatic ideas for the creation of a theoretical framework for syntax, developed by Noam A. Chomsky and his f...
- 08:39, 28 August 2007 diff hist +240 N Minimalismus New page: Der '''Minimalismus''' ist ein syntaktisches Rahmenwerk, das von Noam A. Chomsky seit den 1990er Jahren entwickelt wurde. ===Literatur=== *{{:Chomsky 1995}} ===Andere Sprachen===...
- 08:38, 28 August 2007 diff hist +793 N Middle voice New page: In syntax, the term '''middle voice''' is sometimes used for a kind of voice or valency-changing derivation that intransitivizes the base verb and has various semantic effects (often l... current
- 08:38, 28 August 2007 diff hist +251 N Mid vowel New page: {{stub}} In phonology, a '''mid vowel''' is a vowel that is produced with the tongue at a level intermediate between high and low vowels. ===Other lan...
- 08:37, 28 August 2007 diff hist +2,596 N Michif New page: {{InfoboxLanguage| |Language=Michif |Autonym= |WALSname=Michif |Ethn15name=Michif |Countries= Canada, USA |WALSLoc= |Family= |ISO1= |ISO2B= |ISO2T= |Ethn15=CRG |MPIExt1=KDOXXX }}...
- 08:36, 28 August 2007 diff hist +138 N Michael Dunn New page: '''Michael Dunn''' is a living linguist. ===Link=== [http://www.mpi.nl/Members/MichaelDunn Homepage] Dunn, Michael
- 08:34, 28 August 2007 diff hist +2,691 N Metatypy New page: '''Metatypy''' is a relatively new term for a kind of contact-induced language change in which a language's syntactic and semantic patterns are changed on a large scale following a mod...
- 08:32, 28 August 2007 diff hist +1,825 N Mentalism New page: '''Mentalism''' is a general term for scientific approaches to various phenomena that try to study the properties of the human mind, rather than just their directly observable manifestatio...
- 08:29, 28 August 2007 diff hist +216 N Mediopassive New page: '''Mediopassive (voice)''' is sometimes used as a synonym of middle voice, or one of its component meanings (anticausative, and so on). ===other languages=== German [[Mediopassiv]...
- 08:27, 28 August 2007 diff hist +383 N Masculine New page: The term '''masculine''' is normally used to refer to a gender that comprises most of the nouns referring to males. ===Origin=== This word is from Latin ''masculi...
- 08:23, 28 August 2007 diff hist +106 N Martine Vanhove New page: ===Link=== [http://llacan.vjf.cnrs.fr/pers/p_vanhove.htm Homepage] Vanhove, Martine current
- 08:22, 28 August 2007 diff hist +251 N Marianne Mithun New page: ===Links=== [http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/people/mithun.html Homepage] [http://www.catalog.sa.ucsb.edu/2002cat/profiles/mithun.htm Faculty profile] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria... current
- 08:19, 28 August 2007 diff hist +26,004 N Maori New page: {{Infobox_Sprache| Sprache=Maori |Länder=Neuseeland |Sprecher= ca. 50.000 bis 70.000 |Klassifikation= *Austronesisch **[[Malayo-Polynesische_Sprachen|Mal...
- 08:16, 28 August 2007 diff hist +7,006 N Manner predication New page: '''Manner predication''' is a type of secondary predication which ascribes a property to an event. The expression used for manner predication is called Manner expression. === Exam... current
- 08:14, 28 August 2007 diff hist +8,852 N Mangghuer New page: Das '''Mangghuer''', auch Monguor, Tu oder Tuzu genannt, ist eine mongolische Sprache. Sie wird in China, in den Provinzen Gansu [http://http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gansu] und Qinghai[ht...
- 19:52, 13 August 2007 diff hist +13,720 N Lokativ-Alternation New page: Unter '''Lokativ-Alternation''' versteht man einen Sonderfall der Valenzalternation Applikativ, bei der der Obliquus der Ausgangskonstruktion eine Ortsangabe ist. Die Frage, wesweg... current
- 19:49, 13 August 2007 diff hist +320 N Logogram New page: {{stub}} In studies of writing systems, a '''logogram''' is a character which stands for an entire word. ===Related terms=== *phonogram *ideogram *pictogram ===Link==... current
- 19:48, 13 August 2007 diff hist +714 N Loanword New page: A '''loanword''' is a word (or more precisely, lexeme) that at some point in the history of a language was borrowed from another language. A word that is n...
- 19:47, 13 August 2007 diff hist +1,738 N Loan creation New page: The term '''loan creation''' denotes a type of contact-induced lexical change whereby a new complex word is created matching a foreign model semantically, but completely independent formal...