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(linguistics, sociolinguistics) Modification(s) to make one's way of communicating similar to others involved in a conversation or discourse.
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(linguistics) The evolution of a dialect to resemble the standard language more closely
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(phonetics, uncountable, of a consonant) Becoming an affricate sound.
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(linguistics) Consisting of root words combined but not materially altered as to form or meaning
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(grammar) A word formed from the combination of parts, each with a separate meaning.
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Of or pertaining to an agnomen.
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(linguistics) An alternate form or allomorph.
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(linguistics) Of a language, having a grammar principally dependent on the arrangement of uninflected words within sentences to indicate meaning. Compare synthetic.
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The use of an apostrophe (an exclamatory speech).
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(linguistics) A word used as a base, to whose stem affixes are added, forming new words.
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Alternative form of begadkefat [(linguistics) A phenomenon of spirantization affecting most plosive consonants of Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic when they are preceded by a vowel and not geminated; also any similar case of spirantization of postvocalic plosives in other languages, such as Berber.]
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Alternative form of begadkefat [(linguistics) A phenomenon of spirantization affecting most plosive consonants of Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic when they are preceded by a vowel and not geminated; also any similar case of spirantization of postvocalic plosives in other languages, such as Berber.]
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Alternative form of begadkefat [(linguistics) A phenomenon of spirantization affecting most plosive consonants of Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic when they are preceded by a vowel and not geminated; also any similar case of spirantization of postvocalic plosives in other languages, such as Berber.]
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(linguistics) a unit of language that can only be used as part of a word, not as a word on its own (such as the English suffix -ly).
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(linguistics, rare) Lemma, or dictionary form; a basic form of a word used as a dictionary entry.
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The basic form of a word used as a dictionary headword.
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(linguistics) The formation of a cleft sentence.
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(linguistics) The formation of cocompounds.
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Synonym of cognate accusative
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(linguistics) A synonymous but not identical, coexisting form (variation) of a word, such as an accepted alternative spelling.
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(linguistics) The co-occurrence of syntactic categories, usually within a sentence.
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(linguistics) A multimorphemic word, one with several parts, one with affixes.
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(linguistics) The formation of compound words from separate words.
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(linguistics) A word composed of two or more stems. Examples include pancake, two-tone, and school bus. In English, it may or may not have a space or hyphen.
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(linguistics) The property of being a compound.
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(linguistics) A process whereby words with related meanings come to have similar sounds.
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(linguistics) A process whereby one or more sounds of a free morpheme (a word) are lost or reduced, such that it becomes a bound morpheme (a clitic) that attaches phonologically to an adjacent word.
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(linguistic morphology) A bound morpheme within a complex word that is a fossil and whose meaning is opaque to the present speakers of the language.
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(grammar, rare) the uninflected form or stem of a word
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(rare, humorous) The act of creating, usually by making up, definitions.
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(grammar) Forming a new word by changing the base of another word or by adding affixes to it.
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In voice recognition, the process of partitioning an input audio stream into homogeneous segments according to the speaker identity, so as to identify different speakers' turns in a conversation.
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(linguistics) To cut off, as a vowel or a syllable.
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(linguistics, by extension) The promotion of meaningless or redundant material so that it does new grammatical (morphosyntactic or phonological) or semantic work.
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(linguistics) A manifestation of a morphosyntactic property.
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(linguistics) The movement of an element from its normal place to one at the end, or near the end, of a sentence.
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(linguistics) (of a morpheme) That can be used by itself, unattached to another morpheme.
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(linguistics) Verner alternation
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(linguistics) A phenomenon by which a grammatical category forms a compound with its direct object or adverbial modifier, while retaining its original syntactic function.
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(grammar, uncountable) Change in the form of a word (morphologic change) to express different grammatical categories.
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(grammar, linguistics) The study of the various processes, including vowel change and affixation, that distinguish word formations in certain grammatical categories.
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(linguistics) The process of forming words or terms using initial letters of other words.
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(linguistics) A style of word formation in which the root is modified and which does not involve stringing morphemes together.
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(linguistics) Synonym of language shift
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(linguistics, lexicography) The canonical form of an inflected word; i.e., the form usually found as the headword in a dictionary, such as the nominative singular of a noun, the bare infinitive of a verb, etc.
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The use of a word or phrase in an unusual or specialized way.
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The insertion of a clitic inside a word (such as between a stem and a suffix).
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(grammar) A word that names an object from a single characteristic of it or of a closely related object; a word used in metonymy.
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(linguistics) the change undergone by a word when used in a construction (for instance am => 'm in I'm)
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(linguistics) The synthetic combining of a relatively small number of morphemes to form compound words.
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(grammar) The formation of words by a combination of compounding and adding an affix, as in brown-eyed.
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(linguistics) locative word
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(linguistics) The formation of a word by the combination of several simple words; agglutination.
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(attributive, linguistics) Made by combining two (or more) words, stories, etc., in the manner of a linguistic portmanteau.
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(linguistics) A word which combines the meaning of two words (or, rarely, more than two words), formed by combining the words, usually, but not always, by adjoining the first part of one word and the last part of the other, the adjoining parts often having a common vowel; for example, smog, formed from smoke and fog.
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(linguistics) The successful use by a language learner of a construct from his/her source language in the target language, such that the resulting utterance in the target language is correct.
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(grammar) Following application of a lexical rule
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(linguistics, of an affix or word construction rule) Consistently applicable to any of an open set of words.
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(linguistics) The ability to form new words using established patterns and discrete linguistic elements, as derivational affixes -ness and -ity.
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(linguistics) formation of a new word based on morphological parallelism of three existing words, rather than direct derivation. Examples:
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(linguistics) The carrying forward of a final consonant to a following word, as in "nickname" for "an ekename".
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(linguistics) The insertion of is what or a similar word sequence so as to form a pseudocleft sentence, as when changing "she bought an apple" to "an apple is what she bought".
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(linguistics) Describing terms (such as prefixes or suffixes) that cannot stand alone as words
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(linguistics) Of or relating to a form of morphology that focuses on the word form rather than segments of the word, and denies that morphemes are signs (form-content pairs). Instead, inflections are stem modifications which serve as exponents of morphological feature sets.
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(linguistics) The process by which a word originally derived from one source is broken down or bracketed into a different set of factors.
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(linguistics) The process in which a language that lacks pitch registers gains them.
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(linguistics) The process of relating syntactic structures, from the levels of phrases, clauses, sentences and paragraphs to the level of the writing as a whole, to their language-independent meanings, removing features specific to particular linguistic and cultural contexts, to the extent that such a project is possible.
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(linguistics) A process of borrowing semantic meaning from another language, where the complete word in the borrowing language already exists; the change is that its meaning is extended to include another meaning its existing translation has in the lending language.
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(linguistics) A branch of linguistics studying the meaning of words.
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(linguistics) The phenomenon by which two or more constituents appearing on the same side of their common head exchange positions to obtain non-canonical order.
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(linguistics) An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.
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(linguistics) The formation of subcompounds.
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(linguistics) A wordfinal segment that has characteristics of both a free morpheme and a bound morpheme.
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(Indo-European linguistics) Insertion of a thematic vowel on the root or stem of the word to make it undergo one of the productive vocalic inflections.
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(linguistics) The placing of the topic of a sentence at the beginning.
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(linguistics) The coining of a new word by changing of the inflectional pattern of an existing word.
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(linguistics) Word-formation technique.
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(linguistics) The act of truncating or shortening (for example, words are shortened to form blend words or portmanteaus).
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Synonym of linguistic unit
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(linguistics) A mechanism whereby countable nouns are made uncountable.
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(linguistics, philosophy) A distinction between the use of a word for its meaning (as in "Cheese is derived from milk") and the mention of a word as a lexical unit (as in " 'Cheese' is derived from a word in Old English").
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(linguistics, syntax) Making use of verb-framing.
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(linguistics) The occurence of a wh-word in its typical syntactic position when forming a wh-question.
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(linguistics) the formation of new words by the processes of derivation and composition
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(linguistics) The derivation of a word from another word (of a differing part of speech) without modification; anthimeria.
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(linguistics) To derive a word from another word (of a differing part of speech) without modification; to perform zero derivation.
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(linguistic morphology) A suffix which is a null morpheme, used in models of linguistic analysis to represent the lack of a suffix where one might otherwise be expected (for example, as one of several inflections that a stem can take, or the reduction of a historically vocalised suffix to the point that it is inaudible).
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Alternative spelling of zero derivation [(linguistics) The derivation of a word from another word (of a differing part of speech) without modification; anthimeria.]
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