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- ...positions. A position which is not an A-position is called an A'-position (A-bar-position). The NPs ''John and apples'' in the sentence ''John eats apples'' are in A-positions (in D-structure).858 bytes (116 words) - 08:55, 26 May 2013
- ...inding''' is a [[binding]] relation in which the [[antecedent]] is in an [[A-position]]. *[[A-bar free]]316 bytes (41 words) - 08:55, 14 June 2014
- '''A-free''' refers to anything which is not [[A-bound]], is A-free. [http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=A-free&lemmacode=1002 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]258 bytes (34 words) - 08:54, 26 May 2013
- '''A-GF''' is a [[GF]] corresponding to an [[A-position]]. [http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=A-GF&lemmacode=1005 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]246 bytes (32 words) - 08:57, 26 May 2013
- '''Condition A''' is one of the [[condition]]s of the [[binding theory]]. *[http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Condition+A&lemmacode=907 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]272 bytes (37 words) - 17:26, 20 September 2014
- ...g., wh-movement. The landing site of a movement can be an A-position or an A-bar position. *German [[A-bar-Position]]414 bytes (62 words) - 16:57, 18 June 2014
- ...inding''' is a [[binding]] relation in which the [[antecedent]] is in an [[A-bar position]]. [http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=A-bar+binding&lemmacode=959 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]296 bytes (40 words) - 08:51, 26 May 2013
- Anything which is not [[A-bar bound]] is '''A-bar free'''. [http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=A-bar+free&lemmacode=962 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]250 bytes (34 words) - 08:51, 26 May 2013
- ...As is well known, unbounded dependencies are a characteristic property of A ′-movement (Huang et al., 2009). ...generally limited within the minimal domain containing a subject, whereas A ′ -movement allows long-distance operations.1 KB (182 words) - 02:47, 31 July 2021
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- ...g., wh-movement. The landing site of a movement can be an A-position or an A-bar position. *German [[A-bar-Position]]414 bytes (62 words) - 16:57, 18 June 2014
- A hypothesis that a VP contains a subject position of its own.122 bytes (18 words) - 03:11, 29 July 2021
- ...(or state of affair) which is [[dynamic]] (implies change), [[telic]] (has a natural endpoint) and [[durative]] (non-punctual). * ''build, make, draw a picture, look through, walk a mile, read a book''440 bytes (60 words) - 09:16, 14 June 2014
- A [[stop]] becoming a [[fricative]] (particularly when preceding a high vowel).265 bytes (34 words) - 13:25, 9 June 2009
- '''Syncope''' is the deletion of a [[segment]] in a [[word]]. In Dutch [a:k@l@g] -> [a:kl@g] 'nasty'.346 bytes (51 words) - 08:33, 16 August 2014
- ...a more specific predicate and a more general one. For example, ''dog'' is a hyponym of ''animal'', because all dogs are also animals, but not vice vers A specific type of hyponymy is instantiated by [[taxonomy|taxonomies]].482 bytes (71 words) - 12:44, 23 May 2009
- ...as a [[question operator]]. A ''wh''-phrase can be a word, ''what'' in (i)a, or an entire phrase, ''which books on quantum physics'' in (i)b. (i) a What have they bought?482 bytes (72 words) - 18:34, 4 September 2014
- A '''proper noun''' is a noun that is a [[proper name]] (as opposed to a [[common noun]]).201 bytes (28 words) - 20:06, 20 July 2014
- ...[A-bar position]], [[binding]] its [[trace]] the way an [[operator]] binds a [[variable]]. ...nd is decomposed into the 'quantifier' ''every x'' and its restriction ''x a girl''.820 bytes (135 words) - 18:31, 27 September 2014
- ...elation between A and B is the same as the semantic relation between B and A.393 bytes (54 words) - 08:33, 28 September 2014
- ...inding''' is a [[binding]] relation in which the [[antecedent]] is in an [[A-position]]. *[[A-bar free]]316 bytes (41 words) - 08:55, 14 June 2014
- ...oice is as individual as fingerprints. Voiceprints can be used to identify a speaker in legal cases (cf. [[forensic phonetics]]). Yet, the spectrographi534 bytes (76 words) - 09:35, 31 August 2014
- ...ge in which a single [[word]] can encode a [[meaning]] which would require a fairly elaborate sentence in many other languages. Spencer, A. 1991. ''Morphological Theory''. Blackwell: Oxford. <br>709 bytes (89 words) - 18:57, 27 September 2014
- ...onger than a light syllable is called a [[heavy syllable]] (sometimes also a [[superheavy syllable]]). ...llables with a short vowel are also light. In others, syllables closed by a sonorant are heavy, those closed by an obstruent are light. (For details s672 bytes (103 words) - 18:40, 12 July 2014
- ...other' does not instatiate a taxonymy, as neither a queen nor a mother is 'a type of woman'. * Cruse, A. 2004. ''Meaning in Language. An Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics''716 bytes (115 words) - 16:33, 27 July 2014
- ...ame [[proposition]] and involves the same [[Theta_role|θ-roles]] as clause A, but uses different [[grammatical function]]s. <glsub of="first" type="a" /> ''The shopkeeper sells a toy dog to Alan.''780 bytes (122 words) - 16:52, 27 July 2014
- ...sed syllable branches: besides the [[nucleus]] (or peak), it also contains a [[coda]]. The English words ''cat'' [kat], ''mice'' [maɪs], and ''tent''607 bytes (88 words) - 18:39, 22 June 2014
- ...ain'' or ''snow'', which is a predicate either without an argument or with a quasi-argument (cf. ''it rains'').458 bytes (61 words) - 18:15, 4 September 2014
- A '''variable constituent''' is a constituent of a [[mutable lexeme]] or a [[construction (in neurocognitive linguistics)|construction]]. In "eat <FOOD>", "<FOOD>" is a variable constituent, whose values range over the members of the category <549 bytes (70 words) - 06:36, 8 October 2017
- '''A-GF''' is a [[GF]] corresponding to an [[A-position]]. [http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=A-GF&lemmacode=1005 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]246 bytes (32 words) - 08:57, 26 May 2013
- ...electional restriction''' is a restriction concerning the relation between a [[predicate]] (or [[predicate term]]) and its argument(s) ([[argument term] ...ssinate'' requires an object that denotes a famous person, i.e. it imposes a selectional restriction to this effect.498 bytes (64 words) - 12:38, 26 July 2014
- ...ture]]s that characterizes a given set of linguistic units with respect to a finite set of properties. In phonology, a feature matrices are used to specify the [[feature]]s of a sound segment.648 bytes (97 words) - 13:55, 14 June 2009
- ...rinciple which states that a moved constituent may only be substituted for a category of the same type. This principle prevents an NP from being moved to a V-position.747 bytes (95 words) - 07:04, 16 August 2014
- ...positions. A position which is not an A-position is called an A'-position (A-bar-position). The NPs ''John and apples'' in the sentence ''John eats apples'' are in A-positions (in D-structure).858 bytes (116 words) - 08:55, 26 May 2013
- ...ty and its parts. The whole is also called [[holonym]] and each part of it a [[meronym]]. * ''hand'' is a meronym of ''arm''271 bytes (42 words) - 14:09, 14 June 2009
- A '''syntactic relation''' is a relation holding between a [[constituent]] and the clause that it forms part of.267 bytes (35 words) - 16:17, 27 July 2014
- '''A-free''' refers to anything which is not [[A-bound]], is A-free. [http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=A-free&lemmacode=1002 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]258 bytes (34 words) - 08:54, 26 May 2013
- ...n]] that only allows a 'yes' or a 'no' answer. It is most often opposed to a [[content question]], which has to be answered by providing more specific i430 bytes (55 words) - 08:29, 1 June 2014
- ...entence''' is a sentence to which a [[truth value]] can be assigned, given a certain situation or circumstance. (i) is a declarative sentence because we can assign it a truth value (e.g., in the actual world sentence (i) is not true).630 bytes (89 words) - 03:28, 18 May 2009
- ...arity''' relates to the fact that exactly two [[value]]s are available for a given choice or decision. In decompositional semantics, binarity is a property of a [[feature]]. A feature is said to be binary iff it can take only one of two [[value]]s. Fo595 bytes (94 words) - 13:16, 14 June 2009
- A '''deprepositional''' [[lexeme]] is a lexeme whose [[base]] is a [[preposition]].216 bytes (23 words) - 13:00, 26 May 2013
- ...aring (using both ears) which helps us to separate interesting sounds from a background of irrelevant noise. In a room where several conversations are taking place, one can focus on one of501 bytes (73 words) - 16:01, 3 August 2014
- ...s. A high tone is usually indicated with an acute (tá) and a low tone with a grave (tà). ...realized on the same vowel. We distinguish between a rising tone (te) and a falling tone (tà). Contour tones are often analysed as complex tones. See944 bytes (152 words) - 18:57, 29 August 2014
- ...non-grammatical entity) results. A sentence is a maximal [[clause]], i.e. a clause that is not part of another clause.554 bytes (79 words) - 12:46, 26 July 2014
- ...tion is sometimes defined as a coindexing relation between a predicate and a [[c-command]]ing subject, not only in the case of an [[NP]]-[[VP]] relation826 bytes (128 words) - 14:56, 14 June 2009
- ...ke (i), the category A consists of two segments, the upper A and the lower A. (i) A730 bytes (96 words) - 16:30, 5 October 2014
- ...uently represented as a series of two identical consonants, rather than as a single, long consonant. Gemination is a contrastive process in Arabic, Estonian, Finnish, Classical Hebrew, Hungari869 bytes (113 words) - 18:32, 20 September 2014
- ...e]], and [[affix]], an [[adposition]] that ''marks'' something, i.e. codes a particular grammatical meaning.328 bytes (44 words) - 18:09, 21 September 2014
- ...as the semantic relation between B and A. The two participants standing in a mutual situation are called [[mutuant]]s (Haspelmath 2008:2088).643 bytes (81 words) - 23:13, 7 August 2009
- A '''lingua franca''' is a language that is used as a means of communication by people from different language communities. ...cs Uzbekistan, Tajiskistan, Turkmenistan, etc.; and [[English]] is used as a lingua franca for most global international events.852 bytes (125 words) - 18:42, 12 July 2014
- The term '''classifier''' is used for a variety of elements whose function can somehow be described as that of assi ...ar'), it must be preceded by a classifier when it occurs with a numeral or a demonstrative.789 bytes (108 words) - 18:34, 22 June 2014
- A '''monophthong''' is a [[vowel]] whose [[vowel quality|quality]] remains constant throughout its p ...alects of American English, so some speakers may not produce this vowel as a monophthong.)611 bytes (77 words) - 20:45, 24 July 2010
- ...klutz-major') which does not refer to a major who is clumsy, but merely to a clumsy person. * Spencer, A. 1991. ''Morphological Theory,'' Blackwell, Oxford.1 KB (190 words) - 22:34, 18 December 2013
- ...law says that a certain class of clitics must be the second constituent of a clause. * Spencer, A. 1991. ''Morphological Theory,'' Blackwell, Oxford.526 bytes (70 words) - 17:55, 4 September 2014
- A '''derivative''' is a [[lexeme]] that is related to another lexeme by a rule of [[derivation]].274 bytes (36 words) - 18:05, 28 June 2014
- ...inding''' is a [[binding]] relation in which the [[antecedent]] is in an [[A-bar position]]. [http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=A-bar+binding&lemmacode=959 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]296 bytes (40 words) - 08:51, 26 May 2013
- A '''slip of the tongue''' is the same as a [[speech error]].134 bytes (18 words) - 07:35, 3 November 2014
- ...ord-formation process which adds an [[affix]] to a [[base]]. Affixation is a cover term which generalizes over [[prefix]]ation, [[suffix]]ation, [[infix417 bytes (54 words) - 09:46, 14 June 2014
- ...er|native]]) [[speaker]] of a language concerning the [[acceptability]] of a linguistic expression (sentence, form, etc.). ...but this terminological usage is problematic because [[grammaticality]] is a property of the language system and is not directly accessibly to the speak592 bytes (73 words) - 17:03, 18 June 2014
- A '''ditransitive verb''' is a verb that requires two [[object]]s. * ''give'': [John] gave [a book] [to Mary]271 bytes (34 words) - 18:25, 28 June 2014
- ...r a [[trace]] of [[QR]], which must be [[A-bar bound]] by an [[operator]]. A variable counts as an R-expression with respect to principle C of the [[Bin511 bytes (71 words) - 08:59, 30 August 2014
- ...ages (a '''language family''') is a group of languages that developed from a common historical [[ancestor]]. A language '''isolate''' is a family of one, such as [[Basque]] or [[Sumerian]].1 KB (161 words) - 03:57, 5 January 2021
- A '''deverbal''' [[lexeme]] is a lexeme whose [[base]] is a [[verb]].264 bytes (29 words) - 18:11, 28 June 2014
- ...efer to stages of the object John and the kind dog, respectively, to which a transient, temporary predicate applies. (i) a John was running878 bytes (131 words) - 13:31, 9 June 2009
- ...cate constants that it contains. The formula All(x) [ P(x) v Neg P(x) ] is a tautology of predicate logic.946 bytes (151 words) - 07:12, 17 August 2014
- ...language]] which is used as a place-holder in a formula. It does not have a specific [[reference]] but stands for an unspecified value. In first order691 bytes (99 words) - 08:58, 30 August 2014
- ...rm''' is an expression denoting a given predicate. For example, ''man'' is a predicate term denoting the [[predicate]] <span style="font-variant: small-254 bytes (33 words) - 19:13, 20 July 2014
- ...ff]] there is a node C (their [[mother]]) which immediately dominates both A and B.349 bytes (50 words) - 07:28, 3 November 2014
- A predicate ''P'' is a '''hyponym''' of another predicate ''Q'' iff ''P'' is a special case of ''Q'': The term 'hyponym' is a [[converse]] of the term '[[hyperonym]]'.408 bytes (72 words) - 20:30, 3 July 2014
- '''Sound change''' is a kind of [[language change]] concerning the phonological system (including p If a sound change is a general phenomenon, it is called a [[sound law]] or a [[phonetical rule]]. Exceptions to the law or rule can normally be explaine778 bytes (111 words) - 14:57, 27 July 2014
- A noun or pronoun expression is assigned case by the closest case-assigner wh ...(e.g a transitive verb like meet, or a transitive preposition like with or a transitive complementiser like for or for)<br>588 bytes (90 words) - 17:35, 16 August 2021
- ...less, unaspirated series of Greek plosives, ''π τ κ''. It may be useful as a more precise alternative when terms such as 'voiceless', 'unaspirated' and677 bytes (101 words) - 05:15, 6 March 2019
- ...h is represented by an ordered pair x,y where x = |A intersect B| and y = |A - B|. ...ete representation of all these pairs of numbers for each possible size of A:2 KB (238 words) - 07:35, 30 August 2014
- ...uch as choice of pronoun (what/who), case endings, word order, or the form a verb takes when it is associated with that noun.419 bytes (71 words) - 17:14, 15 June 2014
- '''Tier Conflation''' is a process by which multilinear representations are linearized. For the [[Arab a807 bytes (102 words) - 09:44, 17 August 2014
- ...ins the [[nucleus]] (or, alternatively, peak). The English words ''eye'' [aɪ], ''go'' [goʊ], and ''schwa'' [ʃwɑː] exemplify open syllables. all syllables in the English name ''A-me-ri-ca'' are open.857 bytes (131 words) - 17:07, 18 July 2014
- ...As is well known, unbounded dependencies are a characteristic property of A ′-movement (Huang et al., 2009). ...generally limited within the minimal domain containing a subject, whereas A ′ -movement allows long-distance operations.1 KB (182 words) - 02:47, 31 July 2021
- ...ble with a long vowel (like ''eye'' [aɪ], ''go'' [goʊ], ''far'' [fɑː]), or a [[closed syllable]] (like ''cat'' [kat], ''ate'' [ɛt], ''met'' [m&#x ...a minimal word constraint: accordingly French lexical words may consist of a single light syllable: ''eau'' [o] `water', feu [fø] `fire', etc.873 bytes (140 words) - 16:16, 13 July 2014
- ...is a [[well-formed]] expression of [[propositional logic]]. What counts as a propositional formula is defined by the syntax of propositional logic: (i) a propositional letters in the vocabulary of L are formulas in L953 bytes (160 words) - 19:13, 27 September 2014
- '''Shape Component''' is a component in the [[grammar]] proposed in the work of [[Arnold Zwicky]]. Thi ...he English ''a/an'' allomorphs (''a book'' vs. ''an apple'') is handled by a Shape Condition.759 bytes (104 words) - 19:11, 28 October 2014
- '''Adverb''' refers a word which modifies a [[verb]], an [[adjective]] or another adverb. ...[[phrase]] in the sense of [[X-bar-theory]]. Since adverbs never occur as a [[complement]], they are treated as [[adjunct]]s.747 bytes (106 words) - 08:00, 1 February 2010
- ...gy]], a '''low vowel''' is a [[vowel]] that is produced with the tongue at a level close to the bottom of the [[oral cavity]] and lower than [[mid vowel *Low: [æ], [a], [ɐ], [ɑ], [ɒ]445 bytes (67 words) - 19:58, 24 July 2010
- ...nt in an [[utterance]] is more prominent than others. Normally, apart from a pitch change, accent is also accompanied by increased duration and increase ''He bought a BOOK.''601 bytes (89 words) - 17:53, 12 June 2014
- ...nerally separated by an [[intonation break]] and by [[comma]]s in writing. A widely discussed subtype of detachment is [[dislocation]]. In dislocation, there has to be a [[resumptive pronoun]] referring to the dislocated constituent, but this is732 bytes (97 words) - 18:07, 28 June 2014
- ...neficiary); each thematic role associated with a theta-assigner (typically a verb) must be assigned to one and only one argument.358 bytes (53 words) - 08:56, 26 May 2013
- ...ch word ''bank'' is homonymous, since it can refer to (a) a couch, and (b) a bank. Equivalent to [[ambiguity]]. The English word ''right'' is also homonymous, meaning (a) correct, or (b) the opposite of 'left''.547 bytes (79 words) - 22:28, 27 July 2010
- ...n. If a language has verb second as a characteristic property it is called a verb second language. ...utch]] (i)a and the [[English]] (i)b shows that Dutch, but not English, is a verb second language.899 bytes (140 words) - 08:38, 31 August 2014
- ...owel reduction''' is a process in which an unstressed [[vowel]] reduces to a [[schwa]]. * Booij, G. E. 1977. ''Dutch Morphology: A Study of Word Formation in Generative Grammar,'' Foris, Dordrecht.624 bytes (85 words) - 10:44, 31 August 2014
- ...ll amount of energy, and since there are many harmonics, each harmonic has a low [[amplitude]].442 bytes (64 words) - 19:17, 27 September 2014
- ...denote such a situation. A reciprocal construction is also said to express a [[reciprocal event]].1 KB (215 words) - 17:35, 24 July 2014
- A '''hesitation marker''' is a linguistic form that appears in environments in which speakers have difficu *Hayashi, Makoto & Yoon, Kyung-eun. 2006. A cross-linguistic exploration of demonstratives in interaction. ''Studies in448 bytes (49 words) - 20:19, 3 July 2014
- ...predicate is said to be 'absolute' if it can be interpreted without taking a complement. The term 'absolute' contrasts with [[relational]].353 bytes (48 words) - 17:01, 18 June 2014
- A '''clausal complement''' is the same as a [[complement clause]]. ...the fact that it is a [[clause]] is more salient than the fact that it is a [[complement]].344 bytes (49 words) - 17:12, 20 September 2014
- ...e situation where the semantically more complex category is represented by a phonologically simpler form. The genitive plural of feminine and neuter nouns in ''-a/-o'' in Russian (''kniga'' 'book', ''mesto'' 'place') are formed without an697 bytes (88 words) - 08:08, 16 August 2014
- In formal logic, the term '''term''' is used as a cover term for [[individual expression]]s and [[predicate (in logic)|predic The term ''term'' is also used in a technical sense to denote418 bytes (61 words) - 16:34, 27 July 2014
- A '''definite article''' is a morpheme which accompanies nouns and which codes [[definiteness]] or [[spec239 bytes (29 words) - 17:28, 27 June 2014
- ...ly 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
- ...mb''' is a prosodic [[foot]] consisting of a [[weak syllable]] followed by a [[strong syllable]]. ...ong pattern of an iamb is often contrasted with the strong-weak pattern of a [[trochee]].616 bytes (84 words) - 20:50, 3 July 2014
- ...which concerns a speakers emotional attitude towards the [[denotation]] of a given sign.200 bytes (26 words) - 13:48, 14 June 2009
- ...er]] which indicates which is the declensional or conjugational class that a [[word]] belongs to. ...clension the root is followed by -''o''-: ''môus+a+n'' (acc.sg.), ''môus+a+y'' (nom.pl.) 'Muse', ''log+o+n'' (acc.sg.), ''log+o+y'' (nom.pl.) 'word'.946 bytes (137 words) - 09:15, 17 August 2014
- ...of [[sign]]s or systems of signs. A sign is said to be iconic if there is a direct association between its meaning and its form. In linguistics, the te351 bytes (54 words) - 20:50, 3 July 2014
- ...' is said two be a '''hyperonym''' of another predicate ''Q'' iff ''Q'' is a special case of ''P'': :For any pair of predicates P,Q:<br> P is a hyperonym of Q iff<br>for all x,<br>Q(x) →P(x)<br>and<br>not (P(x) &ra467 bytes (81 words) - 20:29, 3 July 2014
- ...undamental component]], but that component does not have to be present for a residue pitch to be heard.609 bytes (93 words) - 17:38, 28 September 2014
- ...ls the existence of unicorns in the domain of discourse. ''A unicorn'' has a nonspecific reading when John is looking for an arbitrary unicorn. This doe986 bytes (148 words) - 07:47, 4 November 2014
- ...hat is usually called the [[focus]]. If we see a sentence as the answer to a question, then the presupposition is the information that was already part A: John '''is taking care of Mary'''1 KB (241 words) - 19:05, 27 September 2014
- .../, /th/). These contrast with [[grooved tongue|grooved]] fricatives, where a hollowing of the [[tongue]] is involved (/s/, /sh/).460 bytes (66 words) - 07:37, 3 November 2014
- In syntax, a '''mixed category''' is a construction which combines the syntactic and morphological ...s of two distinct categories, such as noun and verb, while being headed by a single word.408 bytes (52 words) - 16:18, 13 July 2014
- ...m '''concatenation''' refers units of speech that are concatenated to form a string. ...instance, a range of sentences can be formed by pasting different words in a row. [[Diphone]]s can be concatenated to form words.559 bytes (76 words) - 21:29, 20 December 2016
- ...ich concerns a speaker's emotional attitiude towards the [[denotation]] of a given sign.184 bytes (25 words) - 19:03, 28 June 2014
- ...questions contrast primarily with [[polar questions]], which just ask for a 'yes' or 'no' answer.438 bytes (55 words) - 16:35, 27 June 2014
- ...f) [[argument]](s) in a [[predication]]. Constituents with the function of a predicate are called [[predicate terms]]. However, the distinction between ...nt-variant: small-caps;">like</span> takes a pair of entities (rather than a single entity) which functions as an argument of that predicate.2 KB (270 words) - 14:54, 14 June 2009
- ...y]], a '''high vowel''' is a [[vowel]] that is produced with the tongue at a level close to the top of the [[oral cavity]], and above the position used354 bytes (48 words) - 20:20, 3 July 2014
- '''Theta-government''' is the configuration in which a [[governor]] [[theta-marking|theta-marks]] the phrase that it governs, form (i) a theta-governs b iff a governs b and a theta-marks b665 bytes (78 words) - 09:33, 17 August 2014
- A '''speech act''' is a what a [[speaker]] does in [[utterance|uttering]] a [[sentence]]. ...ve something). The last type of act is linguistically not relevant. Within a truth-conditional approach, only the locutionary act is seen to be relevant1 KB (218 words) - 08:13, 1 June 2014
- ...erb that takes at least one object. Depending on the exact number of verbs a distinction is made between [[monotransitive]] (one object) verbs and [[dit389 bytes (50 words) - 18:57, 2 August 2014
- ...of [[:category:linguistic theories|linguistic theories]]. A theory attains a higher level of descriptive adequacy if it can handle more natural language The assessment of a theory's descriptive adequacy obviously is closely related to what counts a516 bytes (70 words) - 18:06, 28 June 2014
- ...d is the focus. The first two stimuli (A and B) are standard, S1 and S2 in a randomly chosen order, and the subjects’ task is to choose which of the t Macmillan, N.A. & C.D. Creelman. 1991. ''Detection Theory: A User’s Guide.'' New York: Cambridge University Press.614 bytes (99 words) - 08:56, 14 June 2014
- ...the variable is not in the [[scope]] of that quantifier (cf. All(x) in (i)a), or because there is another quantifier already binding the variable (cf. (i) a All(x) [ P(j) ] & Q(x)677 bytes (105 words) - 08:51, 30 August 2014
- ...msky]] (1976) which states that a [[pronoun]] cannot be [[coindexed]] with a [[variable]] to its right. See [[Weak crossover]]. ..., Projet sur les langues kru: Premier rapport, pp.176-202, Univ. du Quebec a Montreal658 bytes (91 words) - 02:59, 6 August 2021
- ...the location in a sentence or syntactic [[tree structure|tree]] from which a [[lexical item]] has been moved. From the original structure, [[wh-movement]] creates a trace where ''John'' used to be.666 bytes (88 words) - 18:51, 2 August 2014
- ...etc. This term should not be confused with [[illocutionary act]], which is a [[speech act]], expressing the intention of the speaker. ...is an illocutionary act of a request: it would be improper to answer with a simple 'yes'.750 bytes (112 words) - 03:27, 18 May 2009
- ...non-material, non-perceptible entity. The opposite of an abstract noun is a [[concrete noun]].387 bytes (53 words) - 09:06, 14 June 2014
- In [[generative phonology]], a '''word boundary''' is a [[boundary]] indicated with the symbol #.286 bytes (37 words) - 16:00, 7 September 2014
- ...term''' is a constituent denoting an [[argument]]. In syntactic research, a distinction between 'argument terms' and 'arguments' is rarely made.190 bytes (25 words) - 13:22, 14 June 2009
- ...ound element that can be isolated in the chain of speech, corresponding to a letter in alphabetic representation of speech.360 bytes (48 words) - 16:21, 5 October 2014
- ...ubject (or external argument) of a verb cannot function as the non-head in a [[synthetic compound]]. * Roeper, T. and D. Siegel 1978. ''A Lexical Transformation for Verbal Compounds,'' Linguistic Inquiry 9, pp. 19923 bytes (129 words) - 07:08, 16 August 2014
- A language is said to be '''role-dominated''' if contrasts between basic [[se ...role-dominated language is Archi (Nakh-Daghestanian). A typical example of a reference-dominated language is English.742 bytes (96 words) - 20:51, 25 July 2014
- A '''logonection''' in [[neurocognitive linguistics]] is a lexical nection.153 bytes (16 words) - 05:29, 8 March 2018
- ...''', i.e. what a sentence is about, and a '''discourse topic''', i.e. what a discourse is about. ...want to leave, but he couldn't afford the rent, you know. And it had such a nice garden in the back!''738 bytes (125 words) - 18:20, 28 June 2014
- ...is considered to be a measure of orthographic regularity and normally has a negative correlation with response times in psycho-linguistic experiments. ...le of 'space' characters, to give the first and last character in the word a special status. The word 'dog' will then become '_dog_' and now contains 41,021 bytes (165 words) - 16:38, 18 July 2014
- ...ion about the surrounding segments and may provide a clue to perception of a segment th at is not heard directly. In other words, more information is pr523 bytes (72 words) - 08:35, 28 September 2014
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- '''Activity''' is a type of situation (or state of affairs) which is [[durative]] and [[atelic] * ''He was '''taking a walk''' ''.416 bytes (57 words) - 09:19, 14 June 2014
- '''Tier''' is a level of representation where particular information is decoded. ...tier where the [[inflection]]al [[morpheme]] ''a'' is represented, and (c) a tier where the binyam I information CVCVC is decoded (= CV tier). Another t1 KB (162 words) - 09:44, 17 August 2014
- ...owels or diphthongs are fronted due to (a) a following front vowel, or (b) a specific morpheme or morphological class. A well-known example is [[German]] umlaut. Plural nouns can be formed in seve832 bytes (115 words) - 16:17, 24 August 2014
- ...]). Since ''wh''-movement is [[A-bar movement]], a ''wh''-trace behaves as a [[variable]] and is subject to Principle C of the [[binding theory]].454 bytes (62 words) - 18:41, 4 September 2014
- ...ics]] is any semantic relationship between lexical and conceptual units in a cognitive system that leads to projections onto the world of properties tha *''The One-Lexeme-One-Thing Fallacy''. The assumption that a [[lexeme (in neurocognitive linguistics)|lexeme]] stands for just one thing1 KB (152 words) - 06:09, 8 October 2017
- A '''result nominal''' is a [[nominal]] which denotes the result of the action denoted by the [[verb]] In (i)a ''the collection'' refers to an entity which is the result of collecting th770 bytes (112 words) - 17:09, 28 September 2014
- ...ght upward monotone (or ''right monotone increasing'') if D(A,B) implies D(A,B'), where B subset B'.1 KB (181 words) - 16:55, 24 August 2014
- ...ithmic way (instead of in a linear way), the logarithmic semitone scale is a more appropriate measure of the perceptual consequences of differences in f622 bytes (87 words) - 18:48, 28 October 2014
- * The [[adoption]] of elements from a foreign language into one's native language; see [[borrowing (i.e. adoption ...uage, or the [[retention]] of elements of one's native language when using a foreign language; see [[borrowing (i.e. copying)]].591 bytes (87 words) - 19:55, 6 September 2009
- ...lation from both conceptual and phonemic nodes. Information is accessed in a bi-directional and stratum-independent manner. * Chow, Ian C. Automating the Importation of Lexical Information into a Relational Network.1 KB (172 words) - 06:04, 8 October 2017
- ...ism can be said to be intermediate between an established loanword and and a [[singly occurring codeswitch]], although the term ''foreignism'' tends to606 bytes (84 words) - 16:34, 29 June 2014
- ...tion''' is a some morpho-syntactic elements have the capacity of absorbing a [[theta-role]] assigned by the [[verb]] (stem) to which they are attached, ...ive]] morphology is an example, and [[clitic]]s have been argued to absorb a theta-role as well.956 bytes (115 words) - 09:33, 17 August 2014
- '''Theta-position''' is an [[A-position]] to which a [[theta-role]] is assigned. ...''. Therefore, the matrix subject position, although an A-position, is not a theta-position.1 KB (192 words) - 09:32, 17 August 2014
- ...chen Sinn genau dann konträr, wenn gilt: wenn A wahr ist, ist B falsch bzw A impliziert Nicht-B. *(A) Manfred ist immer der Erste. (B) Manfred ist immer der Letzte.1 KB (174 words) - 17:26, 21 September 2014
- ...nects with the [[realization|realizational]] lines. Notated as a diamond, a small rotated square, which corresponds to the term, ''diamond node'', by w * A noun meaning the hole in the ground with water at the bottom.1 KB (179 words) - 06:23, 8 October 2017
- ...gy]], a '''mid vowel''' is a [[vowel]] that is produced with the tongue at a level intermediate between [[high vowel|high]] and [[low vowel|low]] vowels402 bytes (47 words) - 16:15, 13 July 2014
- A statement that is made about a [[topic]] is the '''comment'''.223 bytes (25 words) - 18:53, 22 June 2014
- A '''relative tense''' is a tenporal category that locates a situation (or a [[topic time]]) relative to some other situation (or [[topic time]]).513 bytes (67 words) - 20:36, 25 July 2014
- ...een extended to [[syntax]] to describe sentences or clauses that differ in a single word or branching structure.581 bytes (88 words) - 20:20, 24 July 2010
- '''Transitive verb''' is a [[verb]] which has to be accompanied by a direct object. An example is the English verb ''hit'' which must be accompanied by a direct object (*''he hits'' vs. ''he hits the ball'').447 bytes (64 words) - 19:58, 29 August 2014
- '''Small Clause''' is [[subject]]-[[predicate]] construction without a [[finite verb]]. (ii) They consider [<sub>NP</sub> him a fine teacher]867 bytes (137 words) - 07:44, 3 November 2014
- '''Polytextuality''' is a measure of the degree of independence of a linguistic unit from its context (or co-text). ...quency", which might be considered as a rather misleading term). The P. of a morpheme might be measured in terms of the number of different words it occ1 KB (163 words) - 20:21, 2 July 2009
- ...ntic relation]]. It is used for an inanimate entity with the help of which a given action is carried out.238 bytes (38 words) - 20:09, 4 July 2014
- 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
- ...oposition is true, relative to a [[model]], i.e., an assignment of values (a valuation) to the basic expressions that constitute the proposition.802 bytes (118 words) - 08:30, 30 August 2014
- Anything which is not [[A-bar bound]] is '''A-bar free'''. [http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=A-bar+free&lemmacode=962 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]250 bytes (34 words) - 08:51, 26 May 2013
- A '''stop''' is a [[manner of articulation]], a [[consonant]] where air is held back when uttering it. In a more precise phonetic terminology, stops also include noncontinuant nasals,552 bytes (69 words) - 13:30, 22 September 2009
- ...[[wh-phrase:]] ''what have they bought''? Otherwise, a question containing a [[wh-element|''wh''-element]]. Distinguished from [[yes-no question]].933 bytes (121 words) - 15:38, 10 June 2009
- A '''diphthong''' is a [[vowel]] whose [[vowel quality|quality]] changes significantly in one dire ...essing toward a single target, as it were, then the sound is classified as a '''diphthong'''."'' (Laver 1994:146)1 KB (173 words) - 18:18, 28 June 2014
- A '''denominal''' [[lexeme]] is a lexeme whose [[base]] is a [[noun]].386 bytes (43 words) - 17:45, 27 June 2014
- ...dth''' is a term used to refer to a range of frequencies. The bandwidth of a bandpass filter is often defined as the difference between the two frequenc441 bytes (69 words) - 18:15, 20 June 2014
- ...the addition of a semantic aspect or grammatical function is expressed by a totally or partially different morpheme which has little or no phonological * Spencer, A. 1991. ''Morphological Theory,'' Blackwell, Oxford.769 bytes (103 words) - 08:17, 16 August 2014
- ''the glass'' is a theme both in (i)a (location) and (i)b (relocation). (i) a The glass is on the table1 KB (178 words) - 18:42, 29 August 2014
- ...e B may not be applied to the output of rule A, even if the output of rule A satisfies the structural description of rule B. See also parenthesis notati rule (a) and (b) are two rules among the stress rules of English:1 KB (193 words) - 16:17, 3 August 2014
- ...refers to a grammatical [[framework]] developed since the 1950s by [[Noam A. Chomsky]].277 bytes (34 words) - 17:22, 29 June 2014
- ...ciple proposed in Williams (1981a) which says that the righthand member of a morphologically [[complex word]] is the [[head]] of that word. This entails (i) off<sub>P</sub> + white<sub>A</sub> -> off white<sub>A</sub>1 KB (233 words) - 18:40, 28 September 2014
- ...tiTree''' is a project being undertaken by the [[LINGUIST List]] to create a digital library of scholarly hypotheses about language relationships and su299 bytes (37 words) - 18:24, 21 September 2014
- ...to the element written between two spaces in many orthographies. There is a large literature about the definition of the word-form, which is difficult This term is probably a translation of Russian ''slovoforma''.697 bytes (89 words) - 19:56, 2 August 2014
- ...ch sound''' is a unit of speech that may or may not directly correspond to a [[phoneme]]. Speech sounds that are not phonemes may occur in [[speech diso403 bytes (58 words) - 19:56, 24 July 2010
- ...pronoun''' is a [[pronoun]] such as ''who, which, where'' etc. introducing a [[relative clause]].291 bytes (38 words) - 14:58, 5 October 2014
- A '''prepositional phrase''' is an [[adpositional phrase]] whose [[head]] is a [[preposition]].220 bytes (25 words) - 19:25, 20 July 2014
- A '''remnant''' is a [[constituent]] out of which something has been [[move]]d.315 bytes (42 words) - 18:04, 28 September 2014
- In [[phonology]], a '''natural class''' of segments is a set of [[segment]]s that behave in the same way with respect to some phonol258 bytes (37 words) - 19:59, 24 July 2010
- ...s assumes that a reduplication [[morpheme]] is not prefixed or suffixed to a [[base]], but simply parafixed: the CV skeleton of the base and the [[affix * McCarthy, J. and A. Prince 1986. ''Prosodic Morphology,'' ms. Univ. of Massachusetts, Brandeis927 bytes (126 words) - 19:48, 29 August 2014
- ...n-descriptive meaning]], which concerns attitudes held by speakers towards a given denotation (e.g. [[emotive meaning]], [[social meaning]]). * Cruse, A. 2004. ''Meaning in Language. An Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics''565 bytes (70 words) - 13:34, 14 June 2009
- ...ocesses, since the base ''ceive'' is not an existing word which belongs to a major lexical category. * Spencer, A. 1991. ''Morphological Theory,'' Blackwell, Oxford.999 bytes (135 words) - 18:45, 7 September 2014
- ...truth definition''' is a definition which formalizes the relation between a [[sentence]] and its [[truth value]]. The definition formalizes what Wittge to understand a proposition means to know what is the case if it is true.1 KB (186 words) - 07:11, 17 August 2014
- ..., a '''base''' is a bigger unit to which an [[affix]] attaches or to which a [[morphological process]] applies. ...re' meaning of a word. The term ''stem'' will be reserved for that part of a word to which inflectional affixes are added, and ''base'' for that part to1 KB (149 words) - 18:26, 20 June 2014
- ...iqueness should be treated as part of the assertion (as Russell did) or as a presupposition (as Strawson proposed).727 bytes (105 words) - 16:39, 24 August 2014
- In the notations used by [[relational network theory]], a '''line''' connects [[node (in neurocognitive linguistics)|nodes]]. Lines ...nuous connection to a strong one. Like a pathway going through a field or a jungle, the more it gets used, the easier it is to use the next time.1 KB (234 words) - 06:13, 8 October 2017
- ...d of intermediate value; for example, a node with three incoming lines and a threshold of 2 will be satisfied if any two of the incoming lines are activ * In [[compact relational network notation|compact notation]] a node is either satisfied or not by incoming activation (hence the threshold2 KB (243 words) - 06:38, 8 October 2017
- ...every [[morpheme]] making up a [[word]] is assigned a separate tier, i.e., a separate and autonomous level of representation. This hypothesis is mainly ...tier, association of these morphemes to the template CVCVC would result in a violation of the No-Crossing Constraint, as is shown in (i). By representin2 KB (230 words) - 16:12, 8 July 2009
- ...are produced with a [[tongue]] body or tongue root configuration involving a greater constriction than that found in their [[lax]] counterparts; this gr606 bytes (82 words) - 07:32, 17 August 2014
- ...listed in the lexicon, a lexeme in this sense is a [[lexical item]], while a word-form is not (normally). :::*''"a lexeme is a (potential o actual) member of a major lexical category, having both form and meaning but being neither, and1 KB (171 words) - 16:13, 7 April 2009
- ...ion with ''grammatical'' form, the idea being that the grammatical form of a sentence is often misleading with respect to its logical properties, for ex In [[generative syntax]], it is a distinct, structural level of representation, usually abbreviated as LF (se2 KB (326 words) - 18:51, 12 July 2014
- A '''sibilant''' is a [[fricative]] speech [[sound]] with high [[frequency]] (/s, sh/ and their [355 bytes (45 words) - 19:16, 28 October 2014
- '''Tautosyllabic''' is a [[consonant]] belonging to the same [[syllable]]. In the English word ''contact'' the first ''t'' is tautosyllabic with ''a'' but not with ''n''.376 bytes (49 words) - 07:16, 17 August 2014
- ...nal syntax, but instead of there being one tactics for the whole language, a separate tactics is believed to exist on each stratum.455 bytes (63 words) - 06:01, 8 October 2017
- ...is made. The subject agrees with the verb in numerus and genus (only with a finite active verb; in passive constructions the subject does not have to a The subject is one of the two main constituents of a sentence, the other one is the predicate.963 bytes (153 words) - 13:10, 13 May 2016
- A '''speech error''' is a non-canonical aspect of an [[utterance]] that was not intended by the [[spe # '''[[anticipation]]s''': 'a leading list' (for 'a reading list')1 KB (168 words) - 13:05, 9 November 2014
- ...the [[PRO]] subject of its infinitival [[complement]], the verb is called a '''subject control verb'''. ''promise'' in (i)a is a subject control verb (PRO must be coreferential with ''John''), but the ver846 bytes (146 words) - 07:02, 16 August 2014
- Though-movement derives (i)b from (i)a. (i) a Though I think she is pretty, I don't like her.768 bytes (106 words) - 09:38, 17 August 2014
- ...ir of predicates <''P'', ''Q''> that fulfills the following conditions: If a referent ''x'' has property ''P'', it cannot have property ''Q'', and if '' Complementarity is a special case of [[incompatibility]].695 bytes (91 words) - 18:56, 22 June 2014
- A group of symbols representing [[syllable]]s of a spoken language and used to write that language, e.g. the [[Japanese]] '[[k ...articulatory routines are stored in the mental syllabary. The advantage of a mental syllabary is that the computational load of the articulatory program1 KB (173 words) - 08:25, 16 August 2014
- ...logical feature]] which characterizes [[sound]]s that are produced in such a way that the [[vocal cords]] vibrate spontaneously (i.e. [[vowel]]s, [[glid404 bytes (57 words) - 07:48, 3 November 2014
- ...hen a subject's perception of a speech sound is influenced by the sight of a different sound being produced.674 bytes (99 words) - 12:16, 13 July 2014
- ...f a [[barrier]]. Roughly, a category is L-marked iff it is theta-marked by a lexical head. (i) John fixed the car in a stupid way2 KB (252 words) - 07:15, 16 August 2014
- '''Polysemy''' is the phenomenon that a [[word]] acquires new usages which, over time, are likely to become more li ...are closely related to each other. The [[ambiguity]] of ''church'' (either a building or an institution) is an instance of polysemy.948 bytes (136 words) - 18:56, 27 September 2014
- ...f language|structural-functional theories of language]]; its members share a belief in [[mentalism]] as well as in the [[autonomy of syntax]]. ...a formalised algorithm to "generate" linguistic structures. In that sense, a number of functionalist theories can also be considered generative, in part908 bytes (122 words) - 17:22, 29 June 2014
- A '''deadjectival''' [[lexeme]] is a lexeme whose [[base]] is an [[adjective]].276 bytes (29 words) - 17:17, 27 June 2014
- ...ext in which it appears. In another type of allomorphy, the realization of a [[morpheme]] is conditioned by the presence of another [[morpheme]]. (a) /s/ after nouns ending in a voiceless consonant (''cats'' /kats/),1 KB (154 words) - 17:10, 15 June 2014
- (a) eine Bezeichnung für die syntaktische Relation zwischen einem Satz, der i ''N → A + N''1 KB (149 words) - 18:52, 28 June 2014
- ...f meaning which does not concern the denotation of a given expression, but a speaker's attitude towards the denotation ([[emotive meaning]]) or also rel285 bytes (37 words) - 16:47, 18 July 2014
- An '''innovative''' descendant of a language is one that is dissimilar to it, compared to its other descendants ...be said to be ''innovative'' in one respect but not another; for example, a language might be innovative in its verb morphology, but not in its case-ma384 bytes (58 words) - 20:08, 4 July 2014
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- ...letter from the range {p, q, r or a p with primes (p',p'',...) represents a single proposition. The propositional formulas of propositional logic are b875 bytes (122 words) - 19:14, 27 September 2014
- ...symbolic labels (''tags'') to linguistics units. The labels are taken from a predefined set of symbols (the so-called ''tag-set''). ...ing]]), and sometimes identifying the structure of a text is considered as a kind of tagging ([[discourse structure tagging]]).1 KB (164 words) - 16:30, 27 July 2014
- ...way the [[CV skeleton]] has to be associated with the [[melody tier]]. In a simplified form the WFC says that (a) Every CV skeletal slot must be associated with at least997 bytes (141 words) - 18:19, 4 September 2014
- A '''velar''' is a sound or a [[place of articulation]] where the [[passive articulator]] is the [[velum] It is produced with a constriction formed by raising the back of the tongue (=dorsum) towards the875 bytes (127 words) - 09:02, 30 August 2014
- '''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
- ...he description of a [[sound wave]], the point at which the displacement of a vibrating particle is [[Zero (Phonetics)|zero]] (the rest position).352 bytes (49 words) - 18:49, 7 September 2014
- ...f it is fully determined by a structurally related [[phrase]], or if it is a 'designated element'. Part of the recoverability condition is subsumed unde568 bytes (78 words) - 08:33, 28 September 2014
- ...[semantic representation]] or in terms of values in a model. When taken as a result nominal, the term 'semantic interpretation' is used [[synonym]]ously637 bytes (84 words) - 18:20, 28 October 2014
- The term '''affective''' was used by Klima (1964) as denoting a property ('feature') of constituents that license [[Negative polarity item] ...d to as ''Affect''(''ive''). Any ''Quant''(''ifier'') in construction with a constituent that contains the feature ''Affect''(''ive'') may ultimately ap741 bytes (104 words) - 08:35, 9 September 2009
- The '''direct object''' is a [[grammatical relation]] borne by the most [[patient]]-like argument (the [ ...ject]], a term that is generally used for a [[recipient]]-like argument of a [[ditransitive]] clause.904 bytes (116 words) - 18:22, 28 June 2014
- ...[[synergetic linguistics]], it is also connected with [[position]] (within a mother constituent) and [[length]] (measured in terms of the number of term This dependency models a hypothesis which is a modified version of Hawkins' Early Immediate Constituent principle.1 KB (144 words) - 09:55, 14 September 2014
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- ...is] at the beginning of a syllable; the non-aspiration is a consequence of a universal rule which inserts [-spread glottis] in all other contexts. See [1,006 bytes (134 words) - 21:45, 7 February 2021
- ...generated. Bellows were used to expel air and this air was passed through a vibrating reed. ...ed sounds were produced with the reed off, and by a turbulent flow through a suitable passage. Von Kempelen claimed that, apart from the vowel sounds, a944 bytes (140 words) - 18:25, 4 September 2014
- In Generative Syntax, '''crash''' is a notion in the [[Minimalist Program]]. A [[derivation]] crashes if it does not [[converge]].355 bytes (44 words) - 18:06, 20 September 2014
- The adjective '''free''' is used as a technical term or a component of a technical term in several ways:538 bytes (75 words) - 16:38, 29 June 2014
- ...i.e. Gaulish influenced French but its speakers were not dominant), it has a Frankish superstratum (because the Frankish speakers dominated France for c855 bytes (118 words) - 15:56, 27 July 2014
- ...dies of writing systems, an '''ideogram''' is a character which stands for a concept.255 bytes (30 words) - 20:52, 3 July 2014
- When a particular [[morpheme]] is not represented everywhere by the same [[morph]] (i) if the noun stem ends in a voiceless consonant, the allomorph used is [s], as in ''kicks'' [kɪks];885 bytes (130 words) - 17:17, 18 June 2014
- An '''imperative''' is a sentence type expressing an order or a request: Imperatives typically lack an overt subject in English, but a subject may appear in German and Dutch imperatives:563 bytes (80 words) - 03:38, 18 May 2009
- ...of vocoder is called a channel vocoder, because its operation is based on a bank of filter channels.1 KB (180 words) - 09:00, 31 August 2014
- ...tique générale''. A minimal [[sign]] is the minimal [[meaningful unit]] of a language where the relation between (phonetic) [[form]] and [[meaning]] is633 bytes (87 words) - 18:24, 21 September 2014
- *a kind of diachronic change, see [[Reanalysis (in diachrony)]] *a kind of syntactic operation in generative syntax, cf. [[Reanalysis (in gene215 bytes (30 words) - 16:00, 5 June 2009
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- ...stem [[allomorphy]] or [[ablaut]], that is, by a change of the stem vowel, a change of the stem consonants, or both.597 bytes (87 words) - 09:03, 10 August 2014
- ...the referent of the phrase plays a [[semantic role]]. It is introduced by a [[relative pronoun]] and which modifies its [[NP]] [[antecedent]]. ...e relative pronoun. Movement of the relative pronoun is usually treated on a par with [[wh-movement]].1 KB (193 words) - 16:40, 28 September 2014
- ...scription, realization formulae are not necessarily ordered. For example, a pair of formulae may be allowed to operate simultaneously, or they may be a A "chameleon vowel" (/E/) is realized as the vowel (V<sub>1</sub>) identical1 KB (172 words) - 01:46, 26 July 2018
- An '''adjective''' is a member of a [[word class]] whose members most typically express properties. ...attached (noun)'. (In the earlier grammatical terminology, adjectives were a subclass of noun; see [[noun (Latin nomen)]].)797 bytes (97 words) - 09:28, 14 June 2014
- ...computer speech dialogues would look like when implemented and running at a stage where these systems are still at the planning stage.1 KB (204 words) - 15:53, 7 September 2014
- An allophone is a conditioned realisation of the same [[phoneme]]. Allophones can be [[comple ...ffect the phonological [[perceptual boundary]]. Kazanina et al. (2006) did a study on [[Russian]] and [[Korean]] speakers' perception of [t] and [d].1 KB (224 words) - 15:12, 3 August 2014
- ...tude]] versus [[frequency]] plot of the simple [[sine wave]] components of a complex wave. Also called '''power spectrum'''.452 bytes (60 words) - 11:39, 9 November 2014
- ...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 or to which :::*''"A stem is any morpheme or combination of morphemes to which an affix can be a1 KB (198 words) - 13:37, 9 June 2009
- ...are necessary in theories which assume that the [[lexicon]] only contains a set of underived words, and that complex words are derived from these liste * Halle, M. 1973. ''Prolegomena to a Theory of Word-Formation,'' Linguistic Inquiry 4, pp. 451-464841 bytes (115 words) - 16:11, 7 September 2014
- ...true sentence. A determiner has the property of variety if and only if in a domain of entities E condition (i) holds. Assuming that ''at least n'' N, for instance, is not defined in a model where the cardinality of N is lower than n, all [[simple determiner]]867 bytes (145 words) - 09:00, 30 August 2014
- ...Impulses moving to a zero element disappear; and an impulse may move from a zero element to the connecting line at any time. [[File:zero-element.jpg|300px|thumb|left|A fragment of English lexotactics, showing four examples of the zero element.1 KB (190 words) - 17:37, 12 February 2018
- In morphology, the '''Mapping Principle''' is a principle proposed by Sproat (1985) to relate the phono-morphological and t ...Furthermore, at the phono-morphological level hierarchical structure plays a relatively small role. Instead, strict adjacency tends to be much more rele2 KB (277 words) - 18:04, 21 September 2014
- A '''loan''' is a linguistic item that is copied from one language into another. Unlike [[non364 bytes (45 words) - 20:16, 6 September 2009
- ...ently been used for a mismatch between the expected and actual function of a morphological form or paradigm. ...Lezgian, the future tense marker ''-da'' has a present tense meaning with a few verbs.954 bytes (147 words) - 17:49, 27 June 2014
- In morphosyntax, a '''free form''' is a form that may occur on its own and is not dependent on another neighbouring272 bytes (40 words) - 18:29, 20 September 2014
- ...rlap, i.e. they have no element in common. In linguistics, it is used with a variety of more specific meanings: * In lexical semantics, complementarity is a [[sense relation]] that holds between predicates whose denotations do not o595 bytes (92 words) - 18:55, 22 June 2014
- ...each theta-position is in a unique [[chain]], and that each chain contains a unique theta-position. (i) a it seems that John is ill2 KB (282 words) - 09:34, 17 August 2014
- ...ecause it only lets through those VP denotations that together with Q make a true sentence.1 KB (170 words) - 19:13, 27 September 2014
- ...concatenation element can fail. Imagine an AND node with an incoming line A above it, and two outgoing lines, B and C, below it. # '''Infallible''': The first possibility is simply that if incoming A is to be realized, the concatenation will never fail. This possibility is c2 KB (258 words) - 21:31, 26 December 2016
- '''Stray adjunction''' is a universal convention by which [[extrametrical]] units are incorporated into ...tion, the extrametrical syllable is incorporated into the adjacent foot as a weak member by stray adjunction.1 KB (140 words) - 08:12, 16 August 2014
- A '''mutable lexeme''' is a complex [[lexeme (in neurocognitive linguistics)|lexeme]] with one or more ...r of all meteors", which was used by the ''New York Times'' when reporting a spectacular meteor seen over the Eastern United States.2 KB (275 words) - 19:07, 28 January 2018
- ...hen a [[wh-phrase|''wh''-phrase]] is moved, it can optionally 'drag along' a larger [[NP]] or [[PP]] in which it is contained. (i) a This is the book [<sub>NP</sub> which] I have designed [<sub>NP</sub> the1 KB (174 words) - 15:55, 5 March 2011
- ...lex forms, i.e. forms made up of more than one atomic unit. The meaning of a complex form is said to be '(fully) compositional' iff it can be derived in311 bytes (49 words) - 18:58, 22 June 2014
- ...V) in terms of the phrasal categories (NP, PP, etc.) which they select as a [[complement]]. Sometimes strict subcategorization is equated with [[c-sele ...t NP contrary to intransitive verbs. We can say that transitive verbs form a subcategory of the category of verbs, by virtue of the fact that they must1 KB (180 words) - 06:57, 16 August 2014
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- '''Absolute tense''' is a temporal category that locates a situation (or a [[topic time]]) to an extra-linguistic reference point, typically the momen ...situations prior to the time of utterance, and future tenses indicate that a situations will take place after the time of utterance.1 KB (183 words) - 09:05, 14 June 2014
- ...The '''acoustic correlate''' of a [[fricative]] consonant, for example, is a random noise pattern, especially in higher frequency regions, but dependent451 bytes (63 words) - 09:16, 14 June 2014
- ...ja Jul'evna Shvedova''' (1917 – 2009-09-18) was a Russian linguist who was a specialist of [[Russian]] grammar.270 bytes (33 words) - 09:30, 22 September 2009
- ...themselves from the committment to the [[truth]] or [[appropriateness]] of a proposition or utterance. The expression of a '''dissociative attitude''' has been claimed to be a key ingredient of linguistic [[irony]] (see e.g. Wilson 2006):809 bytes (111 words) - 21:37, 28 September 2009