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  • ...we know something is true. Some languages grammaticise evidentiality (mark it in their verb system). ''al-ypdyr'' 's/he took (but I didn't see it)';
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  • '''Referential opacity''' is a property of [[word]]s which entails that it is impossible to 'see inside' them, and refer to their parts by using an [[ ...gh the anaphoric relation that is possible in ''he took the tea and poured it into the cup''. Referential opacity is closely related to the property of [
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  • ...indicates the voiceless, unaspirated series of Greek plosives, ''π τ κ''. It may be useful as a more precise alternative when terms such as 'voiceless',
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  • ...ntity and its parts. The whole is also called [[holonym]] and each part of it a [[meronym]].
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  • ...ities in the [[universe of discourse]] have a particular property. In (i), it is used to express that every entity has property P. It is a standard assumption that natural language expressions such as ''each g
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  • * in [[:category:generative syntax|generative syntax]], it refers to the entire sequence of rule applications in the process of genera * in [[:category:morphology|morphology]], it refers to word formation through the association of dependent and independe
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  • ...f [[language planning]], in the well-known classification of Kloss (1969): It refers to modifications in the social role of a language, in particular the ...the status of the language, whether it is satisfactory as it is or whether it should be lowered or raised." (Kloss 1969)
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  • ...in ''it rains'' is quasi-referential) and expletives such as ''it'' (cf. ''it seems that he has gone'') and ''there'' (''there is a man in the garden'').
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  • Siraiki is an old language. It is spoken in centeral Pakistan. It is an Indo-Aryan language with deep influence of Munda and Dravidian langua
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  • ...f a yes-no question, but uttering it is an illocutionary act of a request: it would be improper to answer with a simple 'yes'.
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  • ...''intransitive verb''' is a verb that does not require an [[object]], i.e. it requires only a [[subject]]. The term 'intransitive' subsumes [[monovalent] * avalent (intransitive) predicate: ''rains'' in ''It rains'
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  • ...dicate]] (or [[predicate term]]) and its argument(s) ([[argument term]]s). It concerns inherent properties of the relevant referents. ...cate ''assassinate'' requires an object that denotes a famous person, i.e. it imposes a selectional restriction to this effect.
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  • ...ve special properties not predictable from its parts and the rule by which it was created. :::''"It might in addition be useful to have a label for those established words whi
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  • ...constitutes the northern branch of [[Western Saamic|Western]] [[Saamic]]. It is further divided into the western group ([[Pite Saami]] and [[Lule Saami] It agrees with [[Southern Saamic]] in the following (western) features:
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  • ...only if it is fully determined by a structurally related [[phrase]], or if it is a 'designated element'. Part of the recoverability condition is subsumed
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  • ...ecause the fact that it is a [[clause]] is more salient than the fact that it is a [[complement]].
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  • (i) Tell me about it. 'Tell (you) me now how it is'
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  • ...help to define a vocabulary, a grammar and a dialogue model. Furthermore, it can point out possible problems at an early stage. The WOZ technique can he # It must be possible to simulate the future system, given human limitations.
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  • ...ting quantifier''' is a [[quantifier]] that is not immediately near the NP it quantifies. French ''tous'' (all) is the exemplary case: ...'les étudiants'' it quantifies, but in (i)b ''tous'' has 'floated' off, as it were, into the sentence. Sportiche (1988) has claimed that ''tous'' in exam
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  • ...oes not imply that people have a special [[module]] for processing speech. It claims that categorical perception can be understood as a problem of classi
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  • ...le denotation of the variables and individual and predicate constants that it contains. The formula All(x) [ P(x) v Neg P(x) ] is a tautology of predicat
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  • ...a copy of its antecedent (x's hat), rather than being co-referential with it. Full implementation of this analysis by means of [[lambda-abstraction]] is
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  • ...tive forms depending on the phonological or morphological context in which it appears. In another type of allomorphy, the realization of a [[morpheme]] i ...and probable, but when the noun-forming suffix ''-ity'' is attached to it it is pronounced as /ɪbil/ (''possibility'', ''probability'').
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  • ...' (spelled quinque). When distant assimilation applies over an entire word it is called [[harmony]] (e.g. [[vowel harmony]], [[nasal harmony]]).
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  • ...[[movement]] is blocked unless it affects the (linear) order of the string it applies to.
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  • ...ing conjunction''' is an older term for [[subordinator]]. (In older usage, it can be defined as a [[conjunction (i.e. connective)|conjunction]] that mark The reason this term was largely given up by linguists is that it was felt that [[subordinator]]s and [[coordinator]]s do not really form a n
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  • ...asurement (e.g. ''nián'' 'year'), it must be preceded by a classifier when it occurs with a numeral or a demonstrative.
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  • ...o investigate whether the marker can occur independently or not, if it can it is most likely a pronoun and not an article. Articles can be homophoneous w
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  • *Italian [[Edward Sapir (it)]]
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  • ...(1969): It refers to modifications in vocabulary, grammar, or writing, and it contrasts with [[status planning]].
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  • ...]]) which attaches at the righthand side of a [[base]], i.e. which follows it.
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  • ...it cannot have property ''Q'', and if ''x'' does not have property ''P'', it has property ''Q'':
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  • '''Acoustics''' is the study of sound waves. It is properly a subfield of physics, but is also key to the linguistic specia ...he [[vocal tract]] produce all of the [[speech sounds]] of human language. It also allows us to analyse those sounds based on audio recordings.
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  • ...It may also be the highest level for various other modalities. Certainly it is connected with the system for visual perception and other kinds of perce ...the sememic system, such as subtypes of "red" and the supertype "color". It is also directly connected to a point in the visual system where we have th
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  • ...over some (especially phonological and syntactic) structural properties to it.
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  • ...side [[declarative sentence|declarative]] and [[interrogative sentence]]s. It is very likely that there are also languages without a special class of exc ...tences in that they use [[interrogative pronoun]]s, e.g. English ''How big it is!''
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  • ...sition contains an argument. If the theta-criterion is defined over [[LF]] it says that each theta-position is in a unique [[chain]], and that each chain (i) a it seems that John is ill
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  • ...is unnecessary for the meaning of "happiness" to be in any way idiomatic: It is repeated use rather than degree of idiomaticity that determines presence ...rk|network]] (or wider cognitive network) is used, the easier it is to use it again: "The pathways of the brain are like pathways through a meadow or fie
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  • ...e elaborate versions, pretending to be a certain type of person performing it)." (WIlson 2006: 1734)
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  • ...r chooses it to be, as distinguished from the [[semantic reference]], that it has in virtue of its [[meaning]]. Kripke (1977) argued that [[referential n
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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
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  • ...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.
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  • ...hat an element is coindexed with its antecedent which c-commands it, hence it is bound by the antecedent.
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  • ...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 [[
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  • ...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
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  • ...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]].
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  • In Generative Grammar, especially a branch of it, namely Distributed Morphology, ''exponent'' refers to the phonological for
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  • ...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
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  • ...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
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  • ** 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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