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  • For a certain type of change, we can observe in which languages it occurred, and collections of attested sound changes then may show how frequ It occurred, e.g., in the history of most Iranian languages, Middle Indo-Aryan
    836 bytes (127 words) - 08:44, 10 August 2014
  • ...guistic system operates, e.g. for speaking and understanding, and (2) that it has been acquired and is further expandable, adaptable, and otherwise chang ...prescribed by some pre-existing linguistic theory, and certainly not that it is genetically determined by a language gene.
    4 KB (600 words) - 06:06, 8 October 2017
  • ...hat an element is coindexed with its antecedent which c-commands it, hence it is bound by the antecedent.
    1 KB (191 words) - 00:25, 5 August 2021
  • ...of an event is the entity that brings about an event and has control over it. ...encoded as a [[subject]] (in the nominative case); in ergative languages, it is associated with a special case, the [[ergative]]. Irrespective of the [[
    1 KB (185 words) - 09:47, 14 June 2014
  • ...a short or long vowel. The [[rhyme]] of an open syllable does not branch, it only contains the [[nucleus]] (or, alternatively, peak). The English words
    857 bytes (131 words) - 17:07, 18 July 2014
  • ...of languages sprode around Europe, these are called [[Romance languages]]. It is a highly [[inflection|inflected]] language. Latin alphabet is the most used writing system in the world. It origins can be traced back to the early Greek [[alphabet]].
    2 KB (268 words) - 13:15, 9 August 2014
  • In Generative Grammar, especially a branch of it, namely Distributed Morphology, ''exponent'' refers to the phonological for
    179 bytes (26 words) - 12:51, 13 October 2021
  • ...basic structures are so fundamental that they could just as well have made it possible for him to learn other concepts that he might have had to learn if
    1 KB (203 words) - 02:10, 15 October 2017
  • ...eally didn't want to leave, but he couldn't afford the rent, you know. And it had such a nice garden in the back!'' In the example, the discourse topic is established in the first sentence: it is ''Mike's house''. In the following sentence, a new "local" topic is esta
    738 bytes (125 words) - 18:20, 28 June 2014
  • ** The operations which make it possible for people to produce and understand speech. ...lev, but they only proposed it as a point of view, never demonstrated that it could actually work.
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  • "Language" is just a term of English. It may be interesting to take note of the fact that many of what English calls ...nguage is not only unobservable, it is not a physical object of any kind. It can be regarded as a very abstract object or as a logical construct, or as
    2 KB (313 words) - 19:14, 28 January 2018
  • ...in -''a'' it is feminine (e.g. ''lampa'' 'lamp'), and if it ends in -''o'' it is neuter (e.g. ''okno'' 'window'). Some languages only distinguish two gen
    2 KB (295 words) - 16:55, 21 August 2014
  • ...n 'spin', finally, as in 'cap', or followed by a consonant, as in 'print', it will not have this aspiration.
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  • ...subject raising, (ii) is impossible, since the subject position taken by ''it'' is skipped in moving ''Vitesse'' to the subject position of ''seems''. (ii) *Vitesse seems [that it is certain [t to win]]
    970 bytes (136 words) - 08:06, 16 August 2014
  • '''Synonymy''' is a [[sense relation]]. It holds between two [[word]]s or [[phrase]]s with the same [[meaning]], like
    339 bytes (46 words) - 08:42, 16 August 2014
  • ...thway going through a field or a jungle, the more it gets used, the easier it is to use the next time.
    1 KB (234 words) - 06:13, 8 October 2017
  • ...[anomaly]] or that it is intelligible by native speakers of that language. It only refers to the compliance with underlying syntactic rules. Grammaticali
    976 bytes (139 words) - 17:43, 29 June 2014
  • ...social in-groups, breaking the English’s standart, while the aim of using it is the exchange of information within the group itself. Therefore, slang al ...year-old, means someone who’s very drunk, but in the twenty-first century, it means someone who’s under the influence of drugs (marijuana).
    2 KB (397 words) - 13:39, 15 May 2024
  • '''Instrument''' is a [[semantic relation]]. It is used for an inanimate entity with the help of which a given action is ca
    238 bytes (38 words) - 20:09, 4 July 2014
  • ...s moved, it can optionally 'drag along' a larger [[NP]] or [[PP]] in which it is contained.
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