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- 14:56, 19 September 2007 diff hist +544 N Syntactic function New page: The term '''syntactic function''' is sometimes used in the sense of grammatical relation. === Comments === This is the term used in Functional Grammar (Dik 1989) and also in Quirk et ...
- 14:56, 19 September 2007 diff hist +1,124 N Syntactic category New page: The term '''syntactic category''' is often used in the sense of word class. :::* ''"It is taken to be a truism, an "absolute universal" in Greenberg's sense or a "design feature of la... current
- 14:55, 19 September 2007 diff hist +1,146 N Supine New page: In Latin linguistics, the term '''supine''' refers to a non-finite form of the verb that expresses purpose and other adverbial notions. === Examples === Latin ''Pater ve... current
- 14:54, 19 September 2007 diff hist +860 N Suffix New page: A '''suffix''' is an affix which follows its base. ===Comments=== :::*''“The term “affix”, which was used in §§24 and 28, is grammatical: it subsumes bound forms of certa...
- 14:54, 19 September 2007 diff hist +723 N Subordinator (de) New page: Ein '''Subordinator''' ist ein Wort oder morphologischer Marker, der meistens peripher im Satz steht und anzeigt, dass der durch ihn markierte Satz subordiniert ist. Subordinatoren geben ...
- 14:53, 19 September 2007 diff hist +587 N Subordinating conjunction New page: The term '''subordinating conjunction''' is an older term for subordinator. (In older usage, it can be defined as a conjunction that marks a [[subordi...
- 14:53, 19 September 2007 diff hist +981 N Sublabel New page: In the Minimalist Program (Chomsky 1995), a '''sublabel''' is a feature associated with a label. ===Example=== Suppose we have a Tense node with the following features: T ...
- 14:52, 19 September 2007 diff hist +141 N Subkomparativ New page: {{stub}} Der '''Subkomparativ'''... ===Other languages=== English subcomparative {{dc}} Category:Syntax
- 14:52, 19 September 2007 diff hist +692 N Subjunktor New page: Der Terminus '''Subjunktor''' ist ein modernes Synonym von Subordinator (verwendet z.B. von Zifonun et al. 1997:988). :::*''„Subjunktoren (Sjk) führen Sätze in N... current
- 14:51, 19 September 2007 diff hist +1,142 N Subjectivity New page: In cognitive-functional linguistics, the term '''subjectivity''' is sometimes used for situations in which a linguistic element or construction requires reference to the speaker in its... current
- 14:50, 19 September 2007 diff hist +1,221 N Subjectification New page: '''Subjectification''' is a diachronic process whereby an element or a construction develops new senses that require speaker-reference, i.e. that lead to subjectivity (e.g. Lan...
- 14:50, 19 September 2007 diff hist +1,571 N Structural-functional theory of language New page: '''Structural-functional(ist)''' is a term for classifying linguistic theories that was coined to describe a particular branch of functionalist theories of language. Structural-functional ...
- 14:49, 19 September 2007 diff hist +565 N Strict identity New page: '''Strict identity''' refers to one type of interpretation of ellipses which include an anaphoric element (e.g. ''Joan likes her picture, and Peter does too''). Ellipses are generally inte...
- 14:48, 19 September 2007 diff hist +449 N Stress New page: {{stub}} In phonology, the term '''stress''' generally refers to an abstract property of syllables within the word domain by which they are pronounced with more prominence ...
- 14:47, 19 September 2007 diff hist +1,200 N Stock New page: A '''stock''' is a genealogical group of languages of considerable time depth, where the relatedness of the languages is typically not evident and can only be shown after detailed ... current
- 14:45, 19 September 2007 diff hist +356 N Stem New page: A '''stem''' is a morphological constituent to which affixes may be attached or to which morphological operations may be applied. ***''"A stem is any morpheme or combination of m...
- 14:44, 19 September 2007 diff hist +162 N Stein, Dieter New page: '''Dieter Stein''' is a living linguist. ===Link=== [http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/anglist3/Stein/ Homepage] {{dc}} Stein, Dieter
- 14:43, 19 September 2007 diff hist +897 N Status planning New page: '''Status planning''' is one aspect of language planning, in the well-known classification of Kloss (1969): It refers to modifications in the social role of a language, in particular t...
- 14:43, 19 September 2007 diff hist +852 N State of affairs New page: The term '''state of affairs''' is a synonym of situation, i.e. it is used as a cover term for states, processes and actions. ::*''“The term ‘State of Affairs’ is here used in t... current
- 14:41, 19 September 2007 diff hist +119 N Sprachdokumentation New page: {{Unvollständig}} ===Andere Sprachen=== englisch language documentation {{wb}} Category:Language description
- 14:40, 19 September 2007 diff hist +571 N Speech error New page: A '''speech error''' is a non-canonical aspect of an utterance that was not intended by the speaker. ===Synonyms=== *slip of the tongue ===Related terms=== *[[slip of the ear...
- 14:39, 19 September 2007 diff hist +1,778 N Sloppy identity New page: '''Sloppy identity''' refers to one type of interpretation of ellipses which include an anaphoric element (e.g. ''Joan likes her picture, and Peter does too''). Ellipses a...
- 14:38, 19 September 2007 diff hist +100 N Slip of the tongue New page: A '''slip of the tongue''' is the same as a speech error. {{dc}} Category:Psycholinguistics
- 14:38, 19 September 2007 diff hist +695 N Skopus-Ambiguität New page: '''Skopus-Ambiguität''' (vgl. Pafel (2006), Villalta (2003)) ist eine Art Ambiguität, die durch den unterschiedlichen Skopus sprachlicher Operatoren, entsteht.... current
- 14:37, 19 September 2007 diff hist 0 Situation cate
- 14:37, 19 September 2007 diff hist +2,179 N Situation New page: In semantics, '''situation''' is used as a cover term for actions, processes and states. The concept 'situation' is so basic that it is very difficult to define it through stil...
- 14:36, 19 September 2007 diff hist +408 N Singular New page: '''Singular''' is a category of the inflectional dimension number: singular nouns (or NPs) are defined as normally denoting a single thing (or other entity). ===Origin=== From Lat...
- 09:26, 17 September 2007 diff hist +844 N Serialization (i.e. word order) New page: {{Stub}} In syntax, the term '''serialization''' is sometimes used as a synonym of constituent order. ===Comments=== A widely cited work that employs this term is Bartsch & Vennemann ...
- 09:25, 17 September 2007 diff hist +235 N Serialization New page: The term '''serialization''' may refer to * the arrangement of words in time; see serialization (as word order) * a sequence of verbs that express a single event and are not overtly l...
- 09:25, 17 September 2007 diff hist +356 N Serialisierung New page: Der Begriff '''Serialisierung''' bezeichnet * die zeitliche Aneinanderreihung von Wörtern; siehe Serialisierung (als Wortabfolge) * eine Sequenz von Verben, die zusammen ein einzelnes...
- 09:23, 17 September 2007 diff hist +443 N Sentence New page: {{stub}} '''Sentence''' is a very basic grammatical term that stands for the largest unit of grammar. When several sentences are combined, a text (a non-grammaatical entity) result...
- 09:21, 17 September 2007 diff hist +802 N Self-repair New page: In conversation analysis, '''self-repair''' is a repair that is performed by the speaker of the utterance that needs repair (Levinson 1983:340–341). ===Examples=== In the fo...
- 09:21, 17 September 2007 diff hist +1,901 N Sekundäres Objekt New page: Als '''sekundäres Objekt''' wird das Thema- oder Patiens-Argument eines ditransitiven Satzes in Sprachen bezeichnet, die eine sekundativische Ausrichtung aufweisen, d....
- 09:20, 17 September 2007 diff hist +719 N Secondary predicate New page: A '''secondary predicate''' is a (mostly adjectival) predicative expression that conveys information about the subject but is not the main predicate of the clause. === S... current
- 09:19, 17 September 2007 diff hist +401 N Secondary object New page: {{stub}} The '''secondary object''' is the T (theme) argument in ditransitive constructions when the R (recipient) argument is expressed in the same way as the [[monotr...
- 09:18, 17 September 2007 diff hist +1,119 N Sebastian Shaumyan New page: '''Sebastian Konstantinovich Shaumyan''' (1916-02-27 – 2007-01-21) was a Soviet and later American linguist who developed the theory of Applicational Grammar. ===Life=== Shaumyan wa... current
- 09:17, 17 September 2007 diff hist +181 N Sandra A. Thompson New page: '''Sandra A. Thompson''' is a living linguist. ===Links=== [http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/sathomps/ Homepage] Category:En Thompson, Sandra A.
- 09:16, 17 September 2007 diff hist +141 N S (disambiguation) New page: The abbreviation '''S''' can stand for * sentence; see S (sentence) * a macrorole; see S (intransitive subject) {{Disambig}} current
- 09:15, 17 September 2007 diff hist +535 N SIL International New page: '''SIL (Summer Institute of Linguistics) International''' is ''"...a faith-based organisation that studies, documents, and assists in developing the world’s lesser-known languages"''. ... current
- 09:14, 17 September 2007 diff hist +17,157 N Runyankore New page: {{Infobox_Sprache |Sprache = Runyankore |Länder = Uganda |Sprecher = 1.643.193 (1991) |Klassifikation = * Niger-Congo *: Atlantic-Congo *:: Volta-Congo *::: [[Benue-Congo]...
- 09:09, 17 September 2007 diff hist +734 N Role-dominated and reference-dominated languages New page: A language is said to be '''role-dominated''' if contrasts between basic semantic roles are directly expressed in its surface structure. Otherwise the language is '''reference-domi...
- 09:08, 17 September 2007 diff hist +181 N Robert M. W. Dixon New page: '''Robert M. W. Dixon''' is a living linguist. ===Link=== [http://www.latrobe.edu.au/rclt/StaffPages/dixon.htm Homepage] Category:En Dixon, Robert M. W.
- 09:06, 17 September 2007 diff hist +868 N Rif Berber New page: {{InfoboxLanguage| |Language=Rif Berber |Autonym=Tarifit |WALSname=Berber (Rif) |Ethn15name=Tarifit |Countries= Algeria, Morocco |WALSLoc= 4dW 34d30N [http://maps.google.com/maps?h...
- 09:04, 17 September 2007 diff hist +16,275 N Reziprok New page: '''Reziprok'''-Konstruktionen sind definiert durch ihre Bedeutung. Es treten mindestens zwei Mitspieler (Partizipanten) im Satz auf, deren Relation zueinander symmetrisch ist, das heißt A...
- 09:02, 17 September 2007 diff hist +738 N Resultative secondary predication New page: '''Resultative secondary predication''' is a type of secondary predication which is interpreted as consecutive to the main predication. It is predicates a property of a participant in ... current
- 09:02, 17 September 2007 diff hist +140 N Resultative predication New page: {{Stub}} '''Resultative predication''' is a short term for Resultative secondary predication. {{dc}} Category:Secondary predication
- 08:57, 17 September 2007 diff hist +1,724 N Relexification New page: The term '''relexification''' refers to the process of replacing (all or a large number of) the words of one language with the words from another language, while the grammar of the origina... current
- 08:56, 17 September 2007 diff hist +1,446 N Relationsadjektiv New page: Ein '''Relationsadjektiv''' ist ein komplexes Adjektiv, das nicht eine Eigenschaft bezeichnet, sondern die Zugehörigkeit zu einem anderen Konzept, das von der Basis des Adjektivs ...
- 08:56, 17 September 2007 diff hist +927 N Relational noun New page: The term '''relational noun''' is often used for nouns with relational meanings such as 'front', 'back', 'inside', 'cause' which express participant roles and correspond to adpositions... current
- 08:55, 17 September 2007 diff hist +926 N Relabelling New page: The term '''relabelling''' is used (following Claire Lefebvre) to refer to the replacement of the phonological representations of substrate words by phonetic strings... current
- 08:54, 17 September 2007 diff hist +90 N Rehg 1981 New page: Rehg, Kenneth. 1981. ''Ponapean reference grammar.'' Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
- 08:54, 17 September 2007 diff hist +222 N Reflexiv New page: Dies ist eine vorläufige Seite. An dieser Stelle soll demnächst Nadja Herzogs '''Reflexiv'''-Artikel erscheinen. Wer weitere Informationen (oder Fragen) zum Thema "Reflexiv" hat, bitte ...
- 08:53, 17 September 2007 diff hist +747 N Reduplication New page: In morphology, '''reduplication''' is an operation which copies some part (or all) of the base and attaches the copied element (the reduplicant) to the base. The copied eelement that i...
- 08:53, 17 September 2007 diff hist +403 N Reduplicant New page: In morphology, the '''reduplicant''' is the element that is added to the base as a result of a reduplication operation (e.g. Haspelmath 2002:24). ===Example=== In Latin, the Perfect o...
- 08:52, 17 September 2007 diff hist +1,414 N Reciprocal construction New page: A construction with at least two participants A and B is called '''reciprocal construction''' if the semantic relation between A and B is the same as the semantic rel...
- 08:51, 17 September 2007 diff hist +1,400 N Recipient passive New page: In German linguistics, the term '''recipient passive''' is used for a kind of passive construction in which it is not the patient/direct object that becomes the subject, but th... current
- 16:59, 30 August 2007 diff hist +709 N Prosody (Firthian) New page: In J. R. Firth's approach to phonology, a '''prosody''' is a feature that has as its domain more than a segment. :::*''"We may abstract those features which mark word or s... current
- 16:59, 30 August 2007 diff hist +725 N Prosody New page: In phonology, '''prosody''' is the study of the role of acoustic and perceptual parameters such as fundamental frequency (F0), intensity and duration. ===Polysemy=== ''Pro...
- 16:57, 30 August 2007 diff hist +94 N Prosodie New page: {{Unvollständig}} ===Andere Sprachen=== englisch prosody {{wb}} !
- 16:50, 30 August 2007 diff hist +360 N Proclitic +cate
- 16:48, 30 August 2007 diff hist +1,058 N Prime object New page: The term '''prime object''' has occasionally been used for primary object. ===Comments=== Comrie (1982), which used "prime object", was written before Dryer (1986), which made the alt...
- 16:47, 30 August 2007 diff hist +263 N Primary stress New page: {{stub}} '''Primary stress''' refers to the one stress within a word that stands out among all others (the secondary stresses). ===Synonyms=== *main stress ===other language...
- 16:46, 30 August 2007 diff hist +624 N Primary object New page: {{stub}} The '''primary object''' is the the monotransitive P (patient) and the ditransitive R (recipient) argument when the latter is expressed in the same way as the... current
- 16:45, 30 August 2007 diff hist +194 N Prepositional phrase New page: {{stub}} A '''prepositional phrase''' is an adpositional phrase whose head is a postposition. ===Other languages=== German Postpositionalphrase {{dc}} [[Category:Phrase ...
- 16:45, 30 August 2007 diff hist +329 N Preposition New page: {{stub}} A '''preposition''' is an adposition that precedes its complement. ===Origin=== The term goes back to antiquity: Latin ''prae-positio'', which literally means 'pre-posi...
- 16:44, 30 August 2007 diff hist +1,379 N Preferred Argument Structure New page: '''Preferred Argument Structure''' is a term introduced by Du Bois (1987) for a set of universal statistical tendencies of (or "constraints on") argument distribution in discourse (see... current
- 16:42, 30 August 2007 diff hist +581 N Predicative attribute New page: '''Predicative attribute''' is a synonym for depictive construction. ===Comments=== This term has long been the primary term in grammatical descriptions, before terms such as [[secon...
- 16:41, 30 August 2007 diff hist +310 N Predicative adjunct New page: In Functional Grammar, a '''predicative adjunct''' is a secondary predicate (e.g. Hengeveld 1992:40f.). ===Reference=== Hengeveld, Kees. 1992. ''Non-verbal predication : theory, t...
- 16:40, 30 August 2007 diff hist +329 N Predicate (i.e. secondary predicate) New page: In Generative syntax, the term '''predicate''' is sometimes used in the sense of secondary predicate, following Williams (1980). ===References=== *Will...
- 16:40, 30 August 2007 diff hist +511 N Praedicativum New page: {{Stub}} '''Praedicativum''' is a synonym for depictive construction. ===Comments=== The term is still used in Latin linguistics (e.g. Pinkster 1983), and it was the dominant term un... current
- 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