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</table>NaumSvenhttp://glottopedia.org/index.php?title=Glottopedia:Dictionary_articles/Technical_terms&diff=87&oldid=prevNaumSven: New page: Glottopedia dictionary articles explain '''technical terms''' of linguistics. A technical term is fixed expression whose meaning is peculiar to linguist...2007-05-27T15:57:32Z<p>New page: Glottopedia <a href="/index.php/Glottopedia:Dictionary_articles" title="Glottopedia:Dictionary articles">dictionary articles</a> explain '''technical terms''' of linguistics. A technical term is fixed expression whose meaning is peculiar to linguist...</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>Glottopedia [[Glottopedia:Dictionary articles|dictionary articles]] explain '''technical terms''' of linguistics. A technical term is fixed expression whose meaning is peculiar to linguistics. This page explains in more detail which technical terms are appropriate for Glottopedia articles, and what conventions should be used for article names.<br />
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==Fixed expressions==<br />
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Since they are not '''fixed expressions''', the following would not be suitable terms for dictionary entries:<br />
*''accusative plural, two-place adjective, substratum effect''<br />
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But of course, fixed technical terms need not be single words. They may be noun-noun combinations ([[surface structure]]), adjective-noun combinations ([[distributive numeral]]), and perhaps other more complex expressions.<br />
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==Technical terms of linguistics==<br />
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Since it is a term that is '''peculiar to linguistics''', the following technical terms would not be suitable for dictionary entries:<br />
*''Occam's Razor, corollary, principle, generalization, petitio principii''<br />
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However, there are of course many technical terms that are used outside linguistics but have a peculiar meaning inside lingistics. These are suitable for dictionary articles, e.g.:<br />
*[[opposition]], [[argument]], [[reference]], [[case]]<br />
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==Parts of speech==<br />
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Technical terms of linguistics are overwhelmingly nouns. However, there are also adjectival technical terms (e.g. [[velar]], [[syntagmatic]], [[stative]]), and verbal technical terms (e.g. [[to ellipt]]).<br />
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In many cases, there are closely related nouns and adjectives, and sometimes also verbs, e.g. ''adjective/adjectival'', ''phonology/phonological'', ''synonym/synonymous'', ''passivization/to passivize''. Where there is no meaning difference between the different parts of speech, only one (the most prominent one) should be regarded as a technical term, and the others should be briefly listed under [[Glottopedia:Dictionary articles/Term properties|Term properties]]. See [[adjective]], [[phonology]], [[passivization]]. The non-prominent derived terms should be related to the main entries by [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Redirect redirects].<br />
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==Dealing with homonymous terms==<br />
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In traditional lexicography, homonyms are distinguished by number diacritics (e.g. ''case(1), case(2)''). Glottopedia, like Wikipedia, only uses '''descriptive distinguishers''', added in parentheses. Such distinguishers may be of the following types:<br />
*indicating a domain of use, such as a subfield of linguistics, a particular approach, or a particular language or family of languages (e.g. [[term (in logic)]] vs. [[term (in relational grammar)]], [[emphasis (in phonetics)]])<br />
*giving a synonym (e.g. [[borrowing (i.e. loanword)]] vs. [[borrowing (i.e. copying)]])<br />
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If one of the hononyms is much more prominent than the others, it may have no distinguisher (e.g. [[case]] vs. case [[(in generative syntax)]], [[polysynthesis]] vs. [[polysynthesis (in Mark Baker's work)]]).<br />
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==Dealing with synonymous terms==<br />
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Unlike Wikipedia, which has only survey articles and therefore does not have different articles on terms that have basically the same meaning, Glottopedia often has separate articles for synonymous terms (e.g. [[subordinator]] and [[subordinating conjunction]]). <br />
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===Disambiguation pages===<br />
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Disambiguation pages are often helpful when there is not one use of a term that is significantly more prominent than others (see, e.g., [[borrowing]]).<br />
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Disambiguation pages may also be set up for words that do not occur as terms of their own, but only as parts of terms (see, e.g., [[free]], [[weak]]).<br />
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===Redirects===<br />
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Glottopedia uses [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Redirect redirects] only for term variants which are so similar that a separate article on both of them is superfluous. This concerns spelling variants (e.g. [[code-switching]] redirects to [[codeswitching]]), part-of-speech variants (e.g. [[elliptical]] redirects to [[ellipsis]], [[genericity]] redirects to [[generic]]), abbreviations (e.g. [[HPSG]] redirects to [[Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar]]), and individual terms that are parts of term pairs (e.g. [[unmarked]] redirects to [[marked and unmarked]]).<br />
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==Term pairs==<br />
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In many cases, two terms often occur together as a term pair and cannot really be defined and discussed in the absence of the other term (e.g. ''langue'' and ''parole''). Such term pairs (which can be called "Ying and Yang pairs") should get a single article (see [[langue and parole]]).<br />
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