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- 16:39, 30 August 2007 diff hist +514 N Postpositional phrase New page: A '''postpositional phrase''' is an adpositional phrase whose head is a postposition. :::*''"A '''postpositional phrase''' consists of a noun phrased followed by a postpositio... current
- 16:39, 30 August 2007 diff hist +344 N Postposition New page: {{stub}} A '''postposition''' is an adposition that follows its complement. ===Origin=== The term was formed (by single-word analogy) on the basis of ''preposition'' and the...
- 16:38, 30 August 2007 diff hist +344 N Postalveolar New page: In phonetics, '''postalveolar''' is a place of articulation that is characterized by the active articulator tip of the tongue and the passive articulator [[hard palate...
- 16:36, 30 August 2007 diff hist +618 N Plurale tantum New page: A '''plurale tantum''' is a noun that only occurs in the plural. ===Term properties=== The plural of ''plurale tantum'' is ''pluralia tantum'' (see section "Origin"). ===Exam...
- 16:27, 30 August 2007 diff hist -27 Polysemy in quantitative linguistics
- 16:26, 30 August 2007 diff hist +536 N Plural New page: '''Plural''' is a category of the inflectional dimension number: plural nouns (or NPs) are defined as normally denoting more than one thing (or more than one entity). If the langua...
- 16:25, 30 August 2007 diff hist +496 N Place of articulation New page: In phonetics, the '''place of articulation''' refers to the part of the mouth where the tongue is placed to produce a particular sound. There are about ten commonly used places of arti...
- 16:24, 30 August 2007 diff hist +1,174 N Pitch accent (lexical) New page: '''Pitch accent''' refers to a kind of word-prosodic prominence of syllables in some languages (such as Japanese) where pitch change is the only cue to accent (in contrast ...
- 16:24, 30 August 2007 diff hist +145 N Pieter Muysken New page: ===Link=== [http://www.ru.nl/onderzoek/onderzoekers/kennisbank/persoonpagina/letteren/muysken_p/ Homepage] Muysken, Pieter
- 16:22, 30 August 2007 diff hist +2,037 N Phrasenstrukturgrammatik New page: == Ursprung == *''griech. phrasis'' - Ausdruck, Wendung *''griech. grammatike (techne) zu grammtikos'' - die Buchstaben betreffend == Definition == Die Phrasenstrukturgrammatik wird a...
- 16:21, 30 August 2007 diff hist +233 N Phonotaktik New page: {{stub}} '''Phonotaktik''' ist der Teil der Phonologie, der sich mit den Regularitäten der sequenziellen Kombination von Segmenten befasst. ===Andere Sprachen=== englisch [[phono...
- 16:21, 30 August 2007 diff hist +420 N Phonology New page: {{stub}} '''Phonology''' is the subfield of linguistics that studies the sound patterns of languages. ===Term properties=== The corresponding relational adjective is ''phonological''. =...
- 16:06, 30 August 2007 diff hist +420 N Phonological New page: {{stub}} '''Phonology''' is the subfield of linguistics that studies the sound patterns of languages. ===Term properties=== The corresponding relational adjective is ''phonological''. =...
- 16:05, 30 August 2007 diff hist +105 N Peter Schmidt New page: ===Link=== [http://www.ldv.uni-trier.de/index.php?schmidt Homepage] Schmidt, Peter current
- 16:04, 30 August 2007 diff hist +2,639 N Peter Ladefoged New page: {{stub}} '''Peter Ladefoged''' (September 17, 1925 – January 24, 2006) was the foremost phonetician of his generation, who studied the sounds of languages from around the world. ===Lif... current
- 16:01, 30 August 2007 diff hist +401 N Perlative case New page: '''Perlative case''' is a common term for a case that denotes a path ('through, along'). ===Synonyms=== *prolative case *prosecutive case *translative (path case) *[[media...
- 16:00, 30 August 2007 diff hist +366 N Periphery New page: {{stub}} In Role and Reference Grammar's clause structure representation (the layered structure of the clause), the '''periphery''' is the part that does not belong to the core, i...
- 15:59, 30 August 2007 diff hist +119 N Paul M. Postal New page: ===Links=== [http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/people/faculty/postal/ Homepage] Postal, Paul M. current
- 15:59, 30 August 2007 diff hist +292 N Passive articulator New page: In phonetics, the '''passive articulator''' is the part of the mouth where the moving part of the mouth is placed to produce a particular sound, contributing to defining a [[place ...
- 15:57, 30 August 2007 diff hist +945 N Particle New page: '''Particle''' is a general term for a type words that are not major parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives) and are not inflected. ===Comments=== *"In nearly all gr...
- 15:55, 30 August 2007 diff hist +505 N Palatal New page: A '''palatal''' segment is a segment that is articulated with the front part of the tongue against the hard palate. ===Examples=== Examples of palatals are the sound [ɳ] (written ''...
- 15:54, 30 August 2007 diff hist +471 N Palaeography New page: '''Palaeography''' (or '''paleography''') is the study of ancient written documents and inscriptions. Sometimes the term is also used for ancient writing itself. ===Origin=== From Greek '... current
- 15:53, 30 August 2007 diff hist +364 N PP New page: In syntax, '''PP''' is a common abbreviation for prepositional phrase, postpositional phrase, or adpositional phrase. ===Comments=== Since these three types of phrases differ ...
- 15:52, 30 August 2007 diff hist +10 Otsuki Fumihiko cate
- 15:52, 30 August 2007 diff hist +2,187 N Otsuki Fumihiko New page: '''Ōtsuki Fumihiko''' (大槻文彦, October 15, 1847; –February 17, 1928) was a Japanese lexicographer, linguist, and historian. He is best known for two [[Japanese languag...
- 15:50, 30 August 2007 diff hist +385 N Orthografisches Wort New page: {{Stub}} Ein '''orthografisches Wort''' ist ein Wort, das nach orthographischen Kriterien (z.B. Wortzwischenraum, Verwendung von Schlussbuchstaben, Verwendung von...
- 15:49, 30 August 2007 diff hist +269 N Oblique core argument New page: {{stub}} In Role and Reference Grammar, an '''oblique core argument''' is a core argument which is marked by anm adposition. Oblique core arguments are oppo...
- 15:48, 30 August 2007 diff hist +1,350 N Oblique (a grammatical relation) New page: The term '''oblique''' is often used to refer to the grammatical relation of arguments or adjuncts that are coded in some special way (by means of an adposition or a [[sema... current
- 15:47, 30 August 2007 diff hist +674 N Oblique New page: The term '''oblique''' is used in two subtly but crucially different senses: * a clausal argument or adjunct that is coded in some special way (by means of an adposition or a [... current
- 15:47, 30 August 2007 diff hist +405 N Objective case New page: {{stub}} The term '''objective case''' is sometimes used for a case that marks an object (mostly a direct object). ===Comments=== Especially in English this term is often use... current
- 15:46, 30 August 2007 diff hist +464 N Object plus infinitive New page: The term '''object plus infinitive''' (abbreviated ''OPI'') is used in Kemmer (1993:85) as a more general term referring not only to accusative and infinitive constructions but also da... current
- 15:45, 30 August 2007 diff hist +448 N Object New page: {{stub}} The term '''object''' is sometimes used as a general term for a non-subject argument. ===Comments=== Using the terms direct object and indirect object as indepe...
- 15:12, 29 August 2007 diff hist +920 N Numeral New page: A '''numeral''' is a member of a word class whose members are used to express numbers in one way or another (for counting objects, counting events, or expressing the position in a sequ...
- 15:12, 29 August 2007 diff hist +971 N Number New page: {{Stub}} '''Number''' is an inflectional dimension used on countable referring expressions to designate the number of referents concerned. Languages differ...
- 15:11, 29 August 2007 diff hist +273 N Nucleus vs. satellite New page: The term pair '''nucleus vs. satellite''' was introduced by Seiler (1960:9) for what is now commonly known as head vs. dependent. === Reference === *Seiler, Hansjakob. 1960. ''Relativ...
- 15:07, 29 August 2007 diff hist +805 N Noun clause New page: A '''noun clause''' is a clause that functions in the same way as a noun phrase, i.e. generally as an argument, so that ''noun clause'' is basically a synonym of [[complement claus... current
- 15:05, 29 August 2007 diff hist +1,050 N Northern Turkic New page: [this article is preliminary and needs to be corrected; it serves primarily illustrative purposes] {{InfoboxFamily| |Family=Northern Turkic |Highest=Altaic |Genus=Turkic |MPIExt1=... current
- 15:02, 29 August 2007 diff hist +9 Nordsaamisch +cate
- 15:01, 29 August 2007 diff hist +16,205 N Nordsaamisch New page: {{Infobox_Sprache| Sprache=Nord-Saami |Länder=Finnland, Schweden, Norwegen |Sprecher= 15.000(Norwegen); 30.000(insgesamt) |Klassifikation= *Uralisch **Saamisch ***Zentralsa...
- 14:59, 29 August 2007 diff hist +200 N Nonfinite New page: See finite vs. nonfinite. ===Synonym=== *infinite (this is an older term that is now obsolete) ===Other languages=== German infinit, nichtfinit {{dc}} [[Category:Verbal ...
- 14:59, 29 August 2007 diff hist +1,224 N Nominative case (citation form) New page: The term '''nominative case''' is sometimes used to denote the citation form of the noun, regardless of its uses. (For the more common definition of ''nominative'', see [[nominative ca...
- 14:58, 29 August 2007 diff hist +390 N Nonce borrowing New page: {{stub}} The term '''nonce borrowing''' refers to the use of a word from another language than the main language of the utterance, which has not become an established part of this languag...
- 14:57, 29 August 2007 diff hist +219 N Nominal New page: {{Stub}} The noun '''nominal''' is sometimes used as equivalent of noun phrase. ===Origin=== This is presumably an abbreviation of ''nominal phrase'', ''nominal expression'', or simil... current
- 14:56, 29 August 2007 diff hist +121 N Nikolaus Himmelmann New page: ===Link=== [http://www.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/~himmelmann/ Homepage] Himmelmann, Nikolaus
- 14:55, 29 August 2007 diff hist +1,679 N Negative polarity item New page: A '''negative polarity item''' is an expression that is restricted to negative contexts and some other semantically related such as questions and conditional clauses although its seman...
- 14:54, 29 August 2007 diff hist +1,948 N Negative concord New page: '''Negative concord''' is a widespread term for cases where negative indefinite pronouns cooccur with a separate expression of sentential negation. ::*''"...the ‘concord of nega...
- 14:53, 29 August 2007 diff hist +451 N Natural language New page: {{stub}} A '''natural language''' is a language that is used by humans for ordinary purposes of communication. The term is used only in special contexts where formal languages of math...
- 14:50, 29 August 2007 diff hist +250 N Natural class New page: {{stub}} In phonology, a '''natural class''' of segments is a set of segments that behave in the same way with respect to some phonological regularity. ===Other languages=== German [[nat...
- 14:48, 29 August 2007 diff hist +479 N Natural New page: The adjective '''natural''' is used in a variety of different contexts in linguistics: * in the phonological term natural class * in the term natural language * with reference to l... current
- 14:43, 29 August 2007 diff hist +819 N Native word New page: A '''native word''' is a word (or more precisely, lexeme) that was not borrowed from another language, but was inherited from an earlier stage of the langu... current