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• Downward monotonicity
  ...t ''monotone decreasing'' or ''antipersistent'') if a true sentence of the form [_S [_NP D CN] VP] entails the truth of [_S [ ...rd monotone'' (or ''right monotone decreasing'') if a true sentence of the form [_S [_NP D CN] VP] entails the truth of [_S [
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• Semantic coherence
  All English words of the form X''ousness'' mean: ...is fully compositional in meaning. This is not true for rival words of the form X''osity'' which have additional idiosyncratic meanings.
  938 bytes (133 words) - 18:10, 28 October 2014
• Exponent
  ...it, namely Distributed Morphology, ''exponent'' refers to the phonological form of a vocabulary item inserted at the spell-out stage.
  179 bytes (26 words) - 12:51, 13 October 2021
• Frequency (Quantitative linguistics)
  ...butions, cf. the well-known Zipf (Zipf-Mandelbrot) law, or in the spectral form, which represents the number of units with a given frequency;
  1,001 bytes (141 words) - 16:43, 29 June 2014
• Persistence (in diachrony)
  ...mmaticalization]] studies, '''persistence''' refers to the fact that, as a form develops along the path of grammaticalization, traces of earlier functions
  238 bytes (32 words) - 08:41, 20 July 2014
• Antonymy
  ...The [[comparative]] of neither term entails the corresponding [[positive]] form. Example: 'long' vs. 'short'; 'x is longer than y' does not entail 'x is lo ...: The [[comparative]] of both terms entails the corresponding [[positive]] form. Example: 'hot' vs. 'cold'; 'x is hotter than y' entails 'x is hot', 'x is
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• Phrase-Marker
  ...ituentenstruktur ([[Phrasenstruktur]], [[Hierarchie]]) einer Wortgruppe in Form eines [[Strukturbaum]]es oder mittels [[Indizierter Klammerung]].
  431 bytes (45 words) - 16:55, 2 November 2007
• Deponency
  ...for a mismatch between the expected and actual function of a morphological form or paradigm. ...rd ‘child’ (and some other words designating the young of animals) has the form of a singular. In Lezgian, the future tense marker ''-da'' has a present te
  954 bytes (147 words) - 17:49, 27 June 2014
• Wh-infinitive
  ...ct]] [[constituent question]] whose [[predicate]] is in the [[infinitive]] form.
  337 bytes (48 words) - 11:37, 20 February 2009
• Symbol
  A '''symbol''' is a sign whose meaning is not associated with its form, i.e. an arbitrary sign.
  192 bytes (28 words) - 16:04, 27 July 2014
• Inflexion
  ...grammatical theory somewhat as follows: inflexion is a change made in the form of a word to express its relationship to other words in the sentence." (Lyo
  348 bytes (43 words) - 11:40, 20 February 2009
• Root
  ...sider the root to be the basic [[free morpheme]] in a [[derivation|derived form]]. If we take the form ''disagreement'', this word contains the basic free morpheme ''agree'' and
  2 KB (238 words) - 17:41, 21 February 2009
• Diphone
  ...way, diphones contain the transitions from one sound to the next. Diphones form building blocks for synthetic speech.
  578 bytes (90 words) - 20:42, 12 February 2009
• Inceptive aspect
  '''Inceptive aspect''' is a term for a grammatical form that depicts the beginning of an action or situation.
  272 bytes (33 words) - 20:53, 3 July 2014
• Generative Semantik
  ...erflächenstrukturen]] überführt werden. Da nunmehr die logisch-semantische Form eines Satzes als zugrundeliegende (generative) Struktur angesehen wird, ent
  1 KB (150 words) - 17:20, 29 June 2014
• One-affix-one-rule hypothesis
  ..., but things become less trivial if one knows that -''er'' is also used to form instrument nouns (''hanger, glider'') since the circumstances under which a
  1 KB (172 words) - 16:13, 8 July 2009
• False vocal folds
  Also called 'ventricular folds'. The false vocal folds form a second constriction, just above the true [[vocal folds]]. When the true v
  430 bytes (65 words) - 20:36, 13 February 2009
• Glottometrics
  ...ics can be downloaded from the Internet, obtained on CD-ROM (in PDF) or in form of printed copies
  665 bytes (97 words) - 12:56, 28 November 2007
• Free morpheme
  A '''free morpheme''' is a [[morpheme]] which can function as an [[free form]]. In this respect free morphemes are opposed to [[bound morpheme]]s.
  487 bytes (64 words) - 13:21, 14 February 2009
• Appositional compound
  An '''appositional compound''' is a [[compound]] of the form [[a][i]], the meaning of which can be characterized as 'a AS WELL AS i'.
  499 bytes (72 words) - 16:42, 13 November 2008

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