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  • A '''full verb''' is a [[verb]] that is not an [[auxiliary verb]]. Note that the term full is used in various ways in grammatical terminology, see
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  • On '''lexicalization''' Lamb notes that even though a word such as happiness can be understood on the basis of the meanings of its con ...o assume that he/she might either have no single node corresponding to the word "fullness" or, at least, that its connections would be rather weak compared
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  • ...may be interpreted as the (affixal) subject, and in a construction with a full NP. e.g. ''Cleopatra cantat'' ‘Cleopatra sings’ ''Cleopatra'' is ''in a ...992. Is basic word order universal? In: Payne, Doris (ed.) ''Pragmatics of word order flexibility.'' Amsterdam: Benjamins, 15-61.
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  • '''Ablaut''' is a process by which an inflected form of a word is formed by changing the vowel of the [[base]]. In the narrower sense, *[[full grade]], or "e" grade,
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  • The word '''language''' has two rather distinct senses that should be kept apart, co ...inct emblematic languages, such as Cornish and Chinuk Wawa. These are also full languages by the definition above, and the way in which they are normally a
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  • Reduplication is a [[word formation]] process by which some part of a base (= a [[segment]], [[syllab *[[full reduplication]]
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  • ...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 ...ives) require a following subject pronoun or noun (following because Irish word order is VSO), while with synthetic forms (which only appear in the 1st and
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  • ...], [[dependency grammar]], [[ellipsis]], [[ergativity]], [[free state]], [[full verb]], [[gapping]], [[infinitive]], [[internal argument]], [[lexical categ ...culation]], [[Maximal Onset Principle]], [[metrical phonology]], [[minimal word constraint]], [[nasal]], [[natural class]], [[pitch accent (lexical)]], [[
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  • In any relationship of full [[schema (in Cognitive Grammar)|schematicity]], the profiles of schema and ...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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  • * when it follows a single consonant or when the vowel is at the end of the word, ...flection or word formation when the vowel was already long in the original word,
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  • ...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 ...) the reader has to look at the whole sentence to make sense of the second word “it” which refers to the specific item “watch” at the end.
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  • Benzing always dealt with the written word in a highly economic way and communicated many of his boldest – and perha
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  • As of 2005, about 40% of Hadza lived as full-time hunter-gatherers, and language transmission was robust in the areas ea ...o occur in shortened forms when the initial hV syllable of a #hVC₂V-shaped word is elided and C₂ is a glottalized nasal click.
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  • ...nce t0 is a point in time, the situation time is also a point in time. The full situation expressed by the tense form takes one of the following forms: ...tive, the situation time “can be a punctual subinterval of the time of the full situation and that punctual subinterval can be located at t<sub>0</sub>”
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  • ...mber of the Yugoslav Academy of Science and Art, to which he was elected a full member four years later. Later, he twice became head of the philological-hi ...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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  • 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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  • Kaili has word-level stress on the penultimate syllable, secondary stress alternates from Kaili has a Latin alphabet without <q> and <x> (which only occur in [[loan word]]s) and without [[diacritics]]. The orthography follows the reformed (1975)
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