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• Hypoanalysis
  Hyperanalysis is one of the four mechanisms of [[form-function reanalysis]] established by Croft (2000). He also refers to this m ...2000. ''Explaining Language Change. An Evolutionary Perspective,'' ch. 5. Form-function reanalysis. Harlow: Longman, 117--144.
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• LF
  ...tive linguistics]], '''LF''' is often used as an abbeviation for [[Logical Form]].
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• Lexeme (morphology)
  ...used for the more general sense, so that we can say that ''bol'somu'' is a form of the lexeme BOL'SOJ (lexemes are represented in upper case).
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• Free
  *[[free form]] (vs. [[bound form]])
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• Biuniqueness
  ...eaning]] (or grammatical category) corresponds to exactly one phonological form.
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• Metanalysis
  '''Metanalysis''' 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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• Concatenation (in phonetics)
  ...e term '''concatenation''' refers units of speech that are concatenated to form a string. ...d by pasting different words in a row. [[Diphone]]s can be concatenated to form words.
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• Nominative case (citation form)
  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 ' ...ian linguistics, which have [[ergative construction]]s, and whose citation form would therefore qualify as an [[absolutive case]].
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• Grammaticalization path
  ...[grammaticalization]]. The change from a [[lexical item]] to a grammatical form does not take place in one abrupt event. It is rather characterized by a "s Hopper & Traugott (2003:7) give the following prototypical form of a grammaticalization path:
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• Noun
  This meaning results form ellipsis of the fuller form ''substantive noun'' (= Latin ''nomen substantivum''). In other European La
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• Compositionality Principle
  ...times called [[Frege's Principle]]) that constrains the relation between [[form]] and [[meaning]] by requiring that the meaning of a composite expression i ..., like [[Montague Grammar]]. Here the Compositionality Principle takes the form of a ''homomorphism'', a mapping that assigns meanings to the basic express
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• Arbitrariness of the sign
  ...omatopoetic]] words) and [[icon]]s. Signs with an arbitrary association of form and meanings are called [[symbol]]s.
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• Speech synthesis
  ...ion of analog signals from digital information (in this case, sound in the form of speech).
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• Category (system)
  ...egory''' is often used in the sense of [[category-system]]. A more precise form of the term is [[morphosyntactic category]]. ...to the more familiar set of dimensions (Tense, Voice, Number, etc.) which form the traditional framework of word-inflection. In the preceding discussion w
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• Suppletion
  ...morpheme which has little or no phonological connection with the [[base]] form. The alternation between the English verb ''go'' and its past tense form ''went'' is an example of total suppletion. The alternation between ''Franc
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• Subjunctive
  ...h has ''soit'' in (ii) as a subjunctive form, distinct from the indicative form est in (i).
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• Logical form
  ...opposition with ''grammatical'' form, the idea being that the grammatical form of a sentence is often misleading with respect to its logical properties, f ...taken to be the interface between an expression (language) and its logical form (in the semantic sense). LF is derived from [[S-structure]] through instanc
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• Absolutive
  * a converb, especially in Indic linguistics; see [[absolutive (verb form)]]).
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• Lexeme (i.e. set of word-forms)
  ...in the lexicon, a lexeme in this sense is a [[lexical item]], while a word-form is not (normally). ...is a (potential o actual) member of a major lexical category, having both form and meaning but being neither, and existing outside of any particular synta
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• Back formation
  ...a affix if the language has a productive affix with the same phonological form as a part of the word that underwent back formation. ...ef''''')_stem; the language also has a productive affix with the form (''ef'').
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