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• Mutual situation
  ...mantic relation between B and A. The two participants standing in a mutual situation are called [[mutuant]]s (Haspelmath 2008:2088). *[[symmetric situation]]
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• Aspect
  ...may belong to different [[aspectual classes]]. The aspect of a sentence is in many languages expressed syntactically and/or morpho-phonologically. ...e described as follows: Aspect relates the [[topic time]] to the [[time of situation]], whereas tense tense relates the [[topic time]] to the [[moment of uttera
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• Declarative sentence
  ...is a sentence to which a [[truth value]] can be assigned, given a certain situation or circumstance. (i) is a declarative sentence because we can assign it a truth value (e.g., in the actual world sentence (i) is not true).
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• Negation
  ...''' refers to the situation in which something is said not to be the case. In [[propositional logic]], it is the [[logical operation]] which turns the [ ...ve]]. In [[syllogistic logic]], negation can be an operator on terms. Thus in ''nobody is ill'', the term ''nobody'' is considered the negation of ''some
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• Situation
  ...s a cover term for [[action]]s, [[process]]es and [[state]]s. The concept 'situation' is so basic that it is very difficult to define it through still more basi ...to refer to just the verb's meaning (which can more precisely be called [[situation core]]).
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• Aktionsart
  ...predicates. It concerns the internal temporal constituency of a (type of) situation denoted by a given predicate (cf. Bache 1985: 10). The (originally German) ...lavonic linguistics. The linguistic term '''aktionsart''' was coined later in Germanic linguistics.
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• Portal:Semantics
  Semantics<br> This portal presents the most central topics in the study of meaning.
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• Caused motion construction
  ...the subject, which Lamb does not consider part of it) is a [[construction (in neurocognitive linguistics)|construction]] that can be written ...ion, the values of the variables are those which fit this construal of the situation.
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• Reciprocal construction
  ...on between B and A, and if a special construction is used to denote such a situation. A reciprocal construction is also said to express a [[reciprocal event]]. ...e basic argument structure of the relevant predicate is reduced or changed in such a way that not all argument positions are filled by referential expres
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• Deixis (de)
  ...]] und bezeichnet sprachliche Bezugnahme, die die unmittelbare, aktuelle [[Situation(de)|Äußerungssituation]] (wer spricht wann wo zu wem worüber) zum Ausgan ...licher Sprache. Deixis ermöglicht die flexible Verwendung bekannter Mittel in immer neuen Kontexten und damit jeweils unmittelbare Relevanz des Gesagten.
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• Habitual aspect
  ...irectly implied in situations “in which the adverb ''usually'' is possible in English” (Dahl 1985: 97). Some languages have tenses that are specialized ....g. giving a sequence of coughs should be understood as a single iterative situation rather than a characteristic or habitual feature of the person who is cough
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• Tenses of English
  ...se' basically means. Such an 'understood' definition is for instance given in the ''International Encyclopedia of Linguistics'' (Bybee 1992: 223f.): ...[...]. Tense is expressed by inflections, by particles, or by auxiliaries in construction with the verb [...].
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• Maxim of relevance
  ...nition of the notion of relevance: "An utterance U is relevant to a speech situation if U can be interpreted as contributing to the conversational goal(s) of sp In many cases the relevance of an answer needs to be inferred on the basis of
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• Skolt Saami
  ...skoltr'', [[English]] ''skull'') and means originally 'bald' (''skallet'' in Norwegian).<ref>Steinar Wikan. 1995. ''Grensebygda Neiden''. Stonglandseide Skolt Saami is spoken in the borderland area between Russia, Norway and Finland.
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• Maxim of manner
  ...framing a clear message, ie a message which is perspicuous or intelligible in the sense of conveying the intended illocutionary goal to the addressee." ...n sufficient to achieve your communicational ends (bearing the Q-principal in mind)." (Levinson 2000: 114)
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• Main Page
  ...FARTICLES}}]]&nbsp;&nbsp;-&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Glottopedia:Hauptseite|Glottopedia in German]] [[Portal:Semantics|Semantics]] | [[Portal:Phonetics and phonology|Phonetics and phonology]] | [[Portal:M
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• Tense
  Even though grammatical '''tense''' marking is found in the majority of the world's languages, there are also languages without gra ...ample, ''tomorrow'' is the day after the day when the sentence is uttered. In contrast, relative time adverbials such as ''four hours before'', ''five da
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• Future tense
  ...se expresses ''“a prediction on the part of the speaker that the situation in the proposition, which refers to an event taking place after the moment of ==Future tenses in European languages==
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• Ambiguity, Polysemy and Vagueness
  ...istinctness” (p. 327) (ambiguity). Therefore, polysemy is a case somewhere in between these two extremes. The borders between the categories of ambiguity ...er 2002: p. 39). However, disregarding puns (see 1.5), in every linguistic situation only one meaning of an ambiguous expression can be used. There are several
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• Sprichwort
  ...r besonders durch fünf Merkmale aus und werden dadurch definiert: sie sind in sich geschlossen, haben eine künstliche, aber einprägsame Form, sind dem ...ter gelten als formal und inhaltlich abgeschlossene Sätze und stehen somit in einer festen und unveränderlichen Formulierung, die man „geschlossene Fo
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