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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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• Morphological component
  A component in the grammar in which the [[word formation rule]]s apply. The question whether there is actually an autonomo * Baker, M. 1988. ''Incorporation: A Theory of Grammatical Function Changing,'' University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
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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
  2 KB (238 words) - 16:42, 13 September 2018
• Inflection
  ...ord. We may say that inflected forms are just variants of one and the same word. Some examples of grammatical information that can be encoded by inflectio * Aronoff, M. 1976. ''Word Formation in Generative Grammar,'' MIT-press, Cambridge, Mass.
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• Atom Condition
  '''Atom Condition''' is a condition on word formation rules proposed in Williams (1981) which says that: ...To account for this, Williams assumes that roots such as ''duce en pose'' function as the head in prefixed words such as ''deduce'' and ''compose''. Given the
  2 KB (284 words) - 14:47, 15 February 2008
• Head movement constraint
  * Baker, M. 1988. ''Incorporation: A Theory of Grammatical Function Changing,'' University of Chicago Press, Chicago. * Travis,L. 1984. ''Parameters and Effects of Word Order Variation,'' Diss, MIT.
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• Portal:Psycholinguistics
  ...[interactive view]], [[language bioprogram hypothesis]], [[localization of function]], [[parallel distributed processing]], [[performance]], [[right-hemisphere Visual Word Recognition:
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• Predicate
  ...given (set of) [[argument]](s) in a [[predication]]. Constituents with the function of a predicate are called [[predicate terms]]. However, the distinction bet ...its argument(s) in parentheses. For example, the predicate denoted by the word ''man'' can be represented as <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">man</
  2 KB (270 words) - 14:54, 14 June 2009
• Auxiliary verb
  An '''auxiliary (verb)''' is a [[verb]]-like [[function word]] that combines with a [[main verb]] and typically helps to express various
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• Code-switching
  ...-switching) "occurs when a bilingual introduces a completely unassimilated word from another language into his speech."'' (Haugen 1956:40) ...switch occurs between words or phrases (it may also occur within the same word). Both sentences together provide an example of [[intersentential codeswitc
  10 KB (1,391 words) - 15:32, 31 January 2010
• 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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• Reduplication
  Reduplication is a [[word formation]] process by which some part of a base (= a [[segment]], [[syllab ...al pattern, it is not any kind of repetition of phonological material. The function can be semantic (intensity, plurality, etc) or grammatical (agreement with
  2 KB (241 words) - 01:01, 13 January 2014
• Kopf-Bewegungsbeschränkung
  *M. Baker, Incorporation. A Theory of Grammatical Function. Chicago 1988. *L. Travis, Parameters and Effects of Word Order Variation. Diss. MIT Cambridge, Mass. 1984.
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• Affix
  ...and that they do not form a productive pattern. Affixes have a predictable function and can typically attach to a large number of words whereas compounds tend ...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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• Passive
  * Baker, M. 1988. ''Incorporation: A Theory of Grammatical Function Changing,'' University of Chicago Press, Chicago. * Di Sciullo, A. M. and E. Williams 1987. ''On the Definition of Word,'' MIT-press, Cambridge, Mass.
  4 KB (558 words) - 16:50, 19 February 2009
• Main Page
  ...[subject]], [[subordinator]], [[subcomparative construction]], [[syntactic function]], [[X-bar theory]], [[Θ-role]] ...culation]], [[Maximal Onset Principle]], [[metrical phonology]], [[minimal word constraint]], [[nasal]], [[natural class]], [[pitch accent (lexical)]], [[
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• Irish
  ...n the southern (Munster) dialect, stress falls on the second syllable of a word if that syllable contains a long vowel or diphthong. If the second syllable ...ve]], [[dative]], and [[vocative]]; the nominative also has [[accusative]] function).
  13 KB (1,654 words) - 20:27, 4 July 2014
• Profile (in Cognitive Grammar)
  ...with the relative values of each card, typical card games and how the aces function in each, etc. SURRENDER profiles an action (a kind of process) of allowing ...here: ''toast'' is certainly closer to being head than is ''French''. In a word like ''eavesdrop'' the relationship is more tenuous, but one would still wa
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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 ...period, when Portuguese traders came to Japan. A very common example for a word of Portuguese origin still in use today is パン, ''pan'' (bread).
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• History of quantitative linguistics
  ...the observations and to find a mathematical formula for the corresponding function – the famous “Zipf’s Law”. Zipf and others observed the same kind o ...siderations in German QL. He set up, among others, a mathematical model of word length distributions and performed various investigations into language, li
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• Irony
  The word 'irony' derives from Greek ''eirōneía'' (cf. also Latin: ''ironia''), whi Winner and Gardner (1993: 429) state that "the primary function of irony is [...] to show something about the speaker". There is a large ra
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• Cohesion
  ...1), the set of given sentences can be identified as a text, because “[t]he word text is used in linguistics to refer to any passage, spoken or written, of ...ludes the text (the linguistic environment), reference takes on a cohesive function” (HALLIDAY & HASAN 1994:226f.).
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• Tomislav Maretić
  ...counted separately, depending on whether it fulfils a vowel or a consonant function ''prst vs ruka''.<br> ...ls makes it “weeker” – meaning that it is more or less easy to pronounce a word. In this respect, Maretić then compared the results obtained with similar
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• Kopf
  ...Kornfilt, Mixed Extended Projections. In: R. Borsley (Hg.), The Nature and Function of Syntactic Categories. San Diego 2000, 101–131. *A. M. Di Sciullo & E. Williams, On the Definition of Word. Cambridge, Mass. 1987.
  9 KB (1,251 words) - 12:54, 9 August 2014
• Jerzy Woronczak
  where <math>f_i</math> is the frequency of the i-th word-form, and N the length of the sample¹ . ...tions for the expected size of the vocabulary of a text with a length of N word-forms and for the expected number of words with an assigned frequency (''ib
  26 KB (3,899 words) - 14:02, 28 November 2007
• S.-Y. Kuroda/publications
  1983b. A remark on certain constructions with the word naka in Japanese. In K. Inoue, E. Kobayashi, and R. Linde (eds.), Issues in 1994a. On function and structure of Japanese causatives: a summary. Proceedings of 1994 Nanzan
  18 KB (2,647 words) - 12:19, 11 July 2021
• Tsez
  The name derives from the Tsez word for ''[[eagle]]''. ...not phonemic but occurs automatically before non-pharyngealized vowels in word-initial position.
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