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• Frequency (Quantitative linguistics)
  ...Zipf (Zipf-Mandelbrot) law, or in the spectral form, which represents the number of units with a given frequency; ...of occurrence: sounds or phonemes, letters, syllables, morph(em)s, words, word classes such as part-of-speech, and even higher units such as syntactic con
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• Infix
  [[Tagalog]], a language spoken at the Philippines, has a number of infixes. From the monomorphemic root ''sulat'' 'writing' the derived ver ...erm ''infix'' is also used for [[adfix]]es that occur nonperipherally in a word, but not inside another morpheme. However, this usage of ''infix'' is usual
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• Derivation
  The term '''derivation''' is used in a number of different senses: * in [[:category:morphology|morphology]], it refers to word formation through the association of dependent and independent morphemes; s
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• Lexicon
  ...ent of a linguistic system which can be regarded as a list or network of [[word]]s or [[lexical entry|lexical entries]] (also [[lexical item]]s, [[lexeme]] ...more complex. Next to a list of underived lexical entries, it contains a [[word formation]] component. Hence, in this approach morphology is an integrated
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• Property
  ...notice that there is a lawful relation between the number of meanings of a word and its length).
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• Viktor Jakovlevič Bunjakovskij
  In 1883, Bunjakovskij, who mostly worked in the realm of number theory and probability theory, published his catalogue of scientific works ...he distribution of these words according to the parts of speech, about the number of letters, about the initial letters, the endings, etc. etc. Also general
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• Inflection
  ...ded by inflectional morphemes include [[Phi-features]] (e.g. [[person]], [[number]], [[gender]], [[case]]), [[mood]], [[tense]], and [[aspect]]. * Aronoff, M. 1976. ''Word Formation in Generative Grammar,'' MIT-press, Cambridge, Mass.
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• Morpheme
  ...seems to contribute some sort of meaning, or a grammatical function to the word to which it belongs, and (b) cannot itself be decomposed into smaller morph The concept "morpheme" is not uncontroversial. A number of linguists dispute the explanatory power of the morpheme as a theoretical
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• Loan creation
  ...''' denotes a type of contact-induced lexical change whereby a new complex word is created matching a foreign model semantically, but completely independen :::*''"'''Creation'''. Loanword lists are often made to include a number of terms whose existence may ultimately be due to contact with a second cul
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• Theory
  ...nding goal of scientific research and can be undertaken only if and when a number of interrelated laws has been found. There is much confusion about the term ...i.e., dx/x). In our example, it is not the absolute increase in usage of a word that causes its shortening but the relative one. The discrete approach is a
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• Stem
  '''Stem''' is a term which is commonly used for the uninflected part of a word. A stem is a morphological constituent to which [[affix]]es may be attached ...'' to the root ''hípp+o-'' 'horse'. The inflectional endings for case and number are added to these forms. Traditionally, the forms ''géphura-'' and ''hi
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• Foot
  ...contain at most two syllables and unbounded ones may contain an indefinite number of syllables. Within feet, one of the syllables is dominant, i.e. the head * Selkirk, E.O. 1981. ''English Compounding and the Theory of Word-structure,'' in: M. Moortgat, H. Van der Hulst & T. Hoestra (eds.) The
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• Auxiliary verb
  An '''auxiliary (verb)''' is a [[verb]]-like [[function word]] that combines with a [[main verb]] and typically helps to express various ::*''"For a number of authors, including the present one, the use of the term ''auxiliary'' is
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• Stress
  ...'''stress''' refers to an abstract property of [[syllable]]s within the [[word domain]]. Stressed syllables are pronounced with more [[prominence]] than u There is only one primary stress position per word. Only syllables with a vocalic nucleus may be stressed.
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• Argument structure
  ...general case)... Argument structure encodes lexical information about the number of arguments, their syntactic type, and their hierarchical organization nec * Di Sciullo, A. M. and E. Williams 1987. ''On the Definition of Word,'' MIT-press, Cambridge, Mass.
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• Siwi
  ...rom ''Sīwah'', the Arabic name of the main oasis where Siwi is spoken; the word is also used in Siwi. The Siwi name of the oasis and of its inhabitants is ...link]), was 17,675; of these, most are Siwi speakers. No estimate of the number of Arabic-speaking immigrants in town is available, but the western village
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• Affix
  ...n. Affixes have a predictable function and can typically attach to a large number of words whereas compounds tend to be more restricted. ...hs which do not realise lexemes and which are attached to roots to produce word-forms are called '''affixes'''.”'' (Bauer 1988:11)
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• Agreement
  *Agreement of [[article]] and [[adjective]] with [[noun]] in [[number]] and [[gender (morphology)|gender]]: *[[Steele, Susan]]. 1978. "Word order variation: a typological study." In: [[Greenberg, Joseph H.]] & [[Fer
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• Japanese
  ...ym '''Nihongo'' [nihõ̞ŋgo̞]' is the Japanese pronunciation of the compound word 日本語 which consists of two parts; 日本 (''nihon''; Japan) and 語 (g ...e speakers. It is estimated at 126,000,000, a number which is based on the number of inhabitants in Japan.
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