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(uncountable, linguistics) The process by which a new word is formed from an older word by interpreting the former as a derivative of the latter, often by removing a morpheme (real or perceived) from the older word, such as the verb burgle, formed by removing -ar (perceived as an agent-noun suffix) from burglar.
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(phonology, rare) Synonym of transphonologization (“a type of sound change whereby a phonemic contrast that used to involve a certain feature evolves in such a way that the contrast is preserved, yet becomes associated with a different feature”)
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(grammar) The process, or an instance, of a word becoming a clitic.
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(linguistics, semantics) The process by which the meaning of a word or other linguistic element is reinterpreted to match the grammatical context.
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(linguistics) The process whereby a new word is created without changing the form, often by allowing the word to function as a new part of speech.
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(linguistics) the process of a pidgin rapidly expanding its vocabulary and grammatical rules, ultimately becoming a creole.
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(linguistics) A process by which a formerly significant part of a combined term is clipped.
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(linguistics, rare) The removal of a hyphen or hyphens.
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(linguistics) The practice of describing realistic forms, as opposed to prescribing idealistic norms, of linguistic usage.
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(rhetoric) Transformation from one grammatically correct form to another.
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(linguistics) The process or action of etymologizing.
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(linguistics, computing) The development of additional features.
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(phonetics) Made fricative.
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(linguistics, uncountable) The assimilation of borrowed lexis, either partial or whole, to word forms of the borrowing language.
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(linguistics) The formation of a hybrid, a word from elements of different languages.
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(linguistics) A phenomenon occurring in many Bantu languages in which morphemes interweave in certain morphophonological conditions.
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(linguistics) The creation of imperfective verb forms from perfective verb stems.
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(linguistics) Any similar process occurring in a later Slavic language or elsewhere.
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(linguistics) The process whereby a lect develops into a koine, or an instance of this.
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(linguistics) Synonym of language shift
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The act of representing something as a text in some language.
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(linguistics) The act of breaking down a word or phrase into segments or meanings not original to it; breaking down the original boundaries between morphemes, words, or other units.
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(linguistics) The act or process of, or an instance of, morphemizing (becoming, or causing something to become, a morpheme).
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(linguistics, phonology) The process whereby a loan word’s pronunciation is adapted to the sound system of the borrowing language.
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(linguistics, linguistic morphology) Regularisation of a paradigm, alignment of irregular forms on regular forms; replacement of irregular forms by regular forms in an inflection.
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(linguistics) A secondary interpretation or analysis of the morphemic structure of a word, allowing its reinterpretation or a transfer of morphemic boundaries.
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(linguistics) The development of a pidgin language.
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The act of preglottalizing.
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(linguistics) Modification of a word's phonological form in accordance with a reanalysis.
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(linguistics) A result of linguistic reconstruction; a model representing an unattested linguistic unit: a phoneme, a morpheme or a word.
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(Hebrew linguistics) A word of this form.
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The addition or increase of slang lexis in language, in a text, etc.
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(linguistics, dated) A fricative.
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(uncountable, phonology) (of a consonant) becoming a spirant (fricative) sound
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A process for removing the inflexional, and sometimes derivational, affixes from words.
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(linguistics) The expansion of the lexicon of a language by native means in correspondence to a foreign term.
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(linguistics) The replacement of local regional words or phrases with those having a wider currency.
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The act of syllabifying; syllabification.
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The collapsing together of more or less synonymous words into one common linguistic category.
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(linguistics) The diachronic process of forming a new single word from a fixed expression of several words.
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(linguistics) A mechanism whereby uncountable nouns are made countable.
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Alternative form of word formation [(linguistics) the formation of new words by the processes of derivation and composition]
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