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• Language (in neurocognitive linguistics)
  "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
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• Gender (grammar)
  ...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
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• Allophone
  ...n 'spin', finally, as in 'cap', or followed by a consonant, as in 'print', it will not have this aspiration.
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• Super raising
  ...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]]
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• Synonymy
  '''Synonymy''' is a [[sense relation]]. It holds between two [[word]]s or [[phrase]]s with the same [[meaning]], like
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• Line (in relational network theory)
  ...thway going through a field or a jungle, the more it gets used, the easier it is to use the next time.
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• Grammatical
  ...[anomaly]] or that it is intelligible by native speakers of that language. It only refers to the compliance with underlying syntactic rules. Grammaticali
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• Eliyunint/test
  ...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).
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• Instrument
  '''Instrument''' is a [[semantic relation]]. It is used for an inanimate entity with the help of which a given action is ca
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• Pied piping
  ...s moved, it can optionally 'drag along' a larger [[NP]] or [[PP]] in which it is contained.
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• Conducton aphasia
  ...son having a disconnection between sound patterns and the production area. It is caused by damage to the arcuate fasciculus.
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• Subject
  ...It is the answer to the questions ‘who’ and ‘what’ in the clause. Thereby it says about whom the sentence is made. The subject agrees with the verb in n
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• Semantic mirage
  ...stics)|lexeme]] stands for just one thing, ruling out the possibility that it might have different senses in different contexts. ...an object that is an integral whole, even if closer examination would show it to be a relatively haphazard collection of diverse phenomena.
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• Occurrence
  ...'' is a type of situation (or state of affairs) which is [[dynamic]], i.e. it is associated with (physical, temporal etc.) change. ...sive aspect denotes the continuation of an action and with accomplishments it refers to the “preparatory process leading towards the culmination of the
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• Syntactic relation
  ...ion''' is a relation holding between a [[constituent]] and the clause that it forms part of.
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• Global aphasia
  Global aphasia is aphasia which affects all language functions. It is caused by damage to all of the langauge processing components which are
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• Caused motion construction
  ...onstruction''' (omitting the subject, which Lamb does not consider part of it) is a [[construction (in neurocognitive linguistics)|construction]] that ca ...e", etc. Here, <MOVE> represents any action that can cause motion, and so it permits any verb that can be so construed, even "sneeze", to impart motion
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• Surface dyslexia
  Surface dyslexia is often the result of temporal lobe damage. It causes the subject to have to carefully sound out each word. This results i
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• Voiceless
  A [[speech sound]] is called '''voiceless''' if it is pronounced with open [[vocal folds]] so that air from the lungs can free
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• Scope
  ...May (1977) states that "the scope of a quantifier phi is everything which it c-commands" (meaning: at LF). Thus, if the relevant syntactic level of repr
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• Lexeme (in neurocognitive linguistics)
  ...internal representation of the lexeme. Note that whenever it is activated it activates the rest of the functional web -- connections to meaning nodes an ...nnected. Every lexeme has its connection to the grammatical tactics. And it connects downwards to expression in some cases as a simple connection; for
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• Language Science Press
  Language Science Press is an imprint based on the idea of Open Access. It was initiated in 2012 by [[Stefan Müller]] and [[Martin Haspelmath]].
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• Crash
  ...''' is a notion in the [[Minimalist Program]]. A [[derivation]] crashes if it does not [[converge]].
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• Properness
  ...er NP. A proper quantifier denotation Q is also called a ''sieve'' because it only lets through those VP denotations that together with Q make a true sen
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• Huddleston and Pullum's (2002) analysis of tense
  ...ctic time is usually the moment of utterance. Under specific circumstances it can be shifted to the ‘decoding time’: * it is a past tense because it is used when T_r <T_o;
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• Language planning
  The term has been around since the 1960s. It seems that it arose in connection with policy decisions in newly independent Asian and Af
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• Tough-movement
  ...ase of [[improper movement]], or as a [[binding]] violation. As a solution it has been proposed that ''John'' in (i) is an argument of the adjective ''ea ...exed with ''John''. Easy to confuse with [[though-movement]] though it is, it is different.
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• Exocentric compound
  ...ss'' does not refer to a behind which is smart but to a person who is know-it-all smart. An alternative term used for such compounds is [[bahuvrihi compo
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• Timbre
  ...ed and having the same loudness and pitch are dissimilar. Put more simply, it relates to the '''sound quality''' of the segment.
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• Association for Linguistic Typology
  ...rganization of linguists with a special interest in [[language typology]]. It was founded in 1993.
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• Borrowing (i.e. copying)
  ...opies)''' an element from a language Y (the [[donor language]]) means that it comes to include this element into its own system. ...ructure of a group's native language from the external language with which it is in contact. This kind of influence is referred to as "borrowing"."'' (Wi
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• Compositionality
  ...t. The meaning of a complex form is said to be '(fully) compositional' iff it can be derived in accordance with the [[Compositionality Principle]].
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• Truncation
  ...' is a morphological [[operation]] by which one [[morpheme]] is deleted if it is internal to another [[suffix]]. ...es this problem by allowing for a truncation rule that deletes -''ate'' if it is followed by -''ee'', as in (ii):
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• Tactic pattern
  [[Stratificational grammar]] defined its term "tactics" after Hockett. It has the same Greek root as ''syntax'', referring to arrangements. He said ...neously functions as topic and agent -- it will have an upward AND linking it to the two functions. Or, in "Harry kicked himself," there is a third line
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• Extrametricality
  ...ommonly: [[metrical]]) [[phonological rule]]; that is, it is treated as if it were not there. Hayes (1982) argues that extrametricality can be assigned b
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• Reading (semantics)
  If an expression has two (or more) '''readings''', it has two (or more) logically distinct [[interpretation]]s. If two expression
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• Weather verb
  ...is a predicate either without an argument or with a quasi-argument (cf. ''it rains'').
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• Cooperative Principle
  ...our conversational contribution such as is required, at the stage at which it occurs, by the accepted purpose or direction of the talk exchange in which ...cean maxims|Maxims]] (of Quality, Quantity, Relevance and Manner) and used it to explain conversational implicatures.
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• Oral cavity
  ...''mouth'', is the resonating chamber between the [[pharynx]] and the lips. It is the final resonating chamber of the [[vocal tract]].
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• NP
  This abbreviation is so frequent that it is often not explained in linguists' work. When talking about noun phrases,
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• Nominative case (citation form)
  ...nominative'' (Latin ''nominativus'', Greek ''onomastikée'' 'naming form'). It is especially common in Caucasian linguistics, which have [[ergative constr ...e constitutive function is just to ''name'' — lat. ''nominare'' — objects. It is the only case that is normally used out of any syntactic context: as a l
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• Maxim of quality
  It is one of the four conversational maxims of the cooperative principles. The
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• Szasa/Draft
  Language fusion is not a new concept. However, it could be argued that '''Denglisch''' is one of the newest mixed languages i '''Denglisch''' is not just a linguistic quirk. It reflects the ability of languages to adjust as they meet the ever evolving
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• Finite vs. nonfinite
  ...er specifications (like the Portuguese [[conjugated infinitive]]), or when it lacks person-number but has tense. ...pair was apparently created on the basis of the older term ''infinitive''. It has been in use only since the 19th century. An early use is in Murray (179
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• Kildin Saami morphology
  ...: kuesʼk} in the paradigm in Table \ref{noun}) or vowel ablaut (like in {\it jēllʼe : jīllʼe} in the paradigm in Table \ref{verb}). Consonant gradat ...1st person singular, occur only in a few lexicalized kinship nouns (e.g. {\it jānna} ‘my mother, mommy’).
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• Head movement constraint
  (i) An X⁰ may only move into the Y0 which properly governs it Recently, it has been argued that the HMC can be derived from more general principles, s
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• Masculine
  This word is from Latin ''masculinus'' 'male'. It is attested in English since the 14th century and probably goes back to ant
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• Tarski's truth definition
  to understand a proposition means to know what is the case if it is true. It has the following general form:
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• Absolute
  ...icate]]s (or [[predicate term]]s). A predicate is said to be 'absolute' if it can be interpreted without taking a complement. The term 'absolute' contras
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• Theme (vs. rheme)
  The term '''theme''' is an older term for [[topic]]. It is often used in contrast with [[rheme]] (see [[theme and rheme]]).
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