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• Mass noun
  ...aries or individual members, like ''milk'' and ''gold''. The opposite of a mass noun is called a [[count noun]]. In English, mass nouns cannot be pluralized (cf. ''*milks'') and cannot be used with the [[i
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• Lexical integrity
  '''Lexical integrity''' is a term used to refer to one of the most important properties of words, viz. the pr ...and E. Williams 1987. ''On the Definition of Word,'' MIT-press, Cambridge, Mass.
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• Covert category
  C]overt categories in English are e.g. [[mass noun|mass]] vs. [[count noun]], [[animacy]], [[stative verb|stative]] vs. [[dynamic v The term was apparently coined by [[Benjamin Lee Whorf]].
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• Morphological object
  '''Morphological object''' is a term that is introduced in DiSciulllo & Williams (1987) to refer to one impo ...and E. Williams 1987. ''On the Definition of Word,'' MIT-press, Cambridge, Mass.
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• Latinate affix
  '''Latinate affix''' is a term used for [[affix]]es which are derived historically from [[Latin]] (or [[Gr ..., M. 1976. ''Word Formation in Generative Grammar,'' MIT-press, Cambridge, Mass.
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• Intensional adjective
  ...'former', but it denotes the individual that was president in a preceding term. In this way intensional adjectives manipulate the temporal or modal parame ...a and McConnell-Ginet 1990. ''Meaning and grammar,'' MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.
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• Level
  '''Level''' is a term first introduced in Allen (1978) to express the idea that different types o ...hese phonological rules. More recently the term 'Level' is replaced by the term stratum.
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• Productivity
  '''Productivity''' is a term which mainly applies to [[word formation]] processes. If a process is fully ..., M. 1976. ''Word Formation in Generative Grammar,'' MIT-press, Cambridge, Mass.
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• Fuckin' insertion
  Another term for this process is Expletive Infixation. ..., M. 1976. ''Word Formation in Generative Grammar,'' MIT-press, Cambridge, Mass.
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• Semantic interpretation
  ...on]] or in terms of values in a model. When taken as a result nominal, the term 'semantic interpretation' is used [[synonym]]ously with ''semantic represen ...a and McConnell-Ginet 1990. ''Meaning and grammar,'' MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.
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• Bounding theory
  In the Minimalist program, the term ''bounding theory'' is no longer used. The term ''bounding theory'' became widely known with Chomsky 1981.
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• Minimal sign
  Minimal sign is a term which is introduced into linguistic theory in [[De Saussure]]'s ''Cours de ..., M. 1976. ''Word Formation in Generative Grammar,'' MIT-press, Cambridge, Mass.
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• Escape hatch
  '''Escape hatch''' is a term referring to the fact that elements in [[COMP]] do not have to obey the [[T * Chomsky, N. 1986b. ''Barriers,'' MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.
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• Cyclic domain
  In phonology and morphology, a '''cyclic domain''' is a term used for a morphologically complex string, consisting of a [[base]] and an ...Catalan Phonology and the Phonological Cycle. PhD dissertation. Cambridge, Mass: MIT. Distr. by IULC, Bloomington Indiana, 1978.
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• Diacritic feature
  ...c features are [+/- latinate] or [+/- native] (e.g. Aronoff 1976). Another term is exception feature. ..., M. 1976. ''Word Formation in Generative Grammar,'' MIT-press, Cambridge, Mass.
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• Stress neutral affix
  '''Stress neutral affix''' is a term which refers to one of the most characteristic properties of [[Class II aff ...egel, D. 1974. ''Topics in English Morphology,'' PhD diss. MIT, Cambridge, Mass.
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• Clitic
  ...term [[enclitic]] is older than the general term ''clitic''. This general term was coined by [[back-formation]] only in the 20th century. *Kayne, R. 1975. ''French Syntax.'' Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
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• Stress shifting affix
  '''Stress shifting affixes''' is a term which refers to one of the most characteristic properties of [[Class I affi ...egel, D. 1974. ''Topics in English Morphology,'' PhD diss. MIT, Cambridge, Mass.
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• Argument structure
  The term ''argument structure'' arose in the early or mid 1980s in American linguist ...and E. Williams 1987. ''On the Definition of Word,'' MIT-press, Cambridge, Mass.
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• Generate
  ...acity of that type. See [[Phrase structure rules]]. In actual practice the term 'generate' has become equivalent to 'characterize explicitly'. ...ormal languages and their relations to automata.,'' Addison-Wesley:Reading Mass.
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