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• Grammar
  *[[Language description]] :An (exhaustive) description of structural phenomena in a particular language
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• Language documentation
  ...[corpus]] of [[raw data]] and [[primary data]] of a little-known language. Language documentation became a major concern of linguistics only in the 1990s as a Language documentation is sometimes said to be the object of the new linguistic subf
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• Theoretical linguistics
  ...nguistics is concerned with constructing [[linguistic theory|theories]] of language or languages, or with developing [[linguistic theory]]. ...pts and findings of linguistics to a variety of practical tasks, including language-teaching."'' (Lyons 1981:35)
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• Sprachdokumentation
  englisch [[language documentation]] [[Category:Language description]]
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• Autosegmental analysis of intonation
  ...on was originally developed for British English (1984, 1985). However, his description, which recognises a phonetic level and a morphological level, can also be a ...] are frameworks to transcribe intonation, both based on the autosegmental description.
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• ISO 639
  ...L]] in the [[Ethnologue]], and [[ANSI Z39.53]] (also known as the [[MARC]] language codes) proved more adequate. ...O 639-5 and ISO 639-6, which deal with [[genealogical classification]] and language variation, respectively, in 2008.
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• GOLD
  ...basic categories and relations used in the scientific description of human language.
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• Basic Linguistic Theory
  ...refers to the set of descriptive notions that is commonly used in language description. ...or the fundamental theoretical concepts that underlie all work in language description and change, and the postulation of general properties of human languages."'
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• Documentary linguistics
  ...fundamentally from... language description [which] aims at the record of a language... as a system of abstract elements, constructions, and rules."'' (Himmelma
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• SIL International
  ...nown for its software applications, widely used in the field of [[language description]], its collection of fonts, and for the maintenance of the [[Ethnologue]].
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• Descriptive adequacy
  ...tains a higher level of descriptive adequacy if it can handle more natural language data from more languages. ...ive adequacy obviously is closely related to what counts as 'good' natural language data, and hence to the concepts of [[grammaticality]] and [[well-formedness
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• Local
  ...e major functions of the noun phrase. In ''Language Typology and syntactic description,'' vol. 1. ''Clause structure,'' ed. by Timothy Shopen, pp. 62–154
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• Definite description
  '''Definite description''' is a definite noun phrase which is used to refer to exactly one individu ''the king of France'' in (i) is a definite description that can only be properly used if France has one and only one king:
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• Agglutinating language
  '''Agglutinating language''' is a language which has a morphological system in which words as a rule are polymorphemic ...(in)[[flectional language]]s, [[isolating language]]s, and [[polysynthetic language]]s. One basic assumption underlying this typology is that agglutination is
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• Realizational formula
  ...ance to a rewrite rule. But unlike rewrite or mutation rules in a process description, realization formulae are not necessarily ordered. For example, a pair of ...p://books.google.com/books/about/Language_and_Reality.html?id=vrlPUxB2_JwC Language and Reality: Selected Writings of Sydney Lamb], Continuum, 2004.
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• Ethnologue
  [[Category:Language description]]
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• Information packaging
  ...aging in the clause. In T. Shopen, eds., ''Language Typology and Syntactic Description'', 282-364. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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• Rigid designator
  ...he case with ''proper names'', i.e. [[name]]s of individuals. The definite description ''the president of the US'' may refer to different persons in different wor * Gamut, L.T.F. 1991. ''Logic, language, and meaning,'' Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago.
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• Debitiv
  ...tinctions in Grammar. In: T. Shopen (Hg.), Language Typology and Syntactic Description. Cambridge 2005.
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• Extension (syntax)
  ...to which an expression refers. The extension of a proper name or definite description is one entity; the extension of a predicate is a set of entities. The exten * Gamut, L.T.F. 1991. ''Logic, language, and meaning,'' Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago.
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