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• Grammar
  *[[Language description]] :An (exhaustive) description of structural phenomena in a particular language
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• Language documentation
  ...[corpus]] of [[raw data]] and [[primary data]] of a little-known language. Language documentation became a major concern of linguistics only in the 1990s as a Language documentation is sometimes said to be the object of the new linguistic subf
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• Theoretical linguistics
  ...nguistics is concerned with constructing [[linguistic theory|theories]] of language or languages, or with developing [[linguistic theory]]. ...pts and findings of linguistics to a variety of practical tasks, including language-teaching."'' (Lyons 1981:35)
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• Sprachdokumentation
  englisch [[language documentation]] [[Category:Language description]]
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• Autosegmental analysis of intonation
  ...on was originally developed for British English (1984, 1985). However, his description, which recognises a phonetic level and a morphological level, can also be a ...] are frameworks to transcribe intonation, both based on the autosegmental description.
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• GOLD
  ...basic categories and relations used in the scientific description of human language.
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• ISO 639
  ...L]] in the [[Ethnologue]], and [[ANSI Z39.53]] (also known as the [[MARC]] language codes) proved more adequate. ...O 639-5 and ISO 639-6, which deal with [[genealogical classification]] and language variation, respectively, in 2008.
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• Basic Linguistic Theory
  ...refers to the set of descriptive notions that is commonly used in language description. ...or the fundamental theoretical concepts that underlie all work in language description and change, and the postulation of general properties of human languages."'
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• Documentary linguistics
  ...fundamentally from... language description [which] aims at the record of a language... as a system of abstract elements, constructions, and rules."'' (Himmelma
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• SIL International
  ...nown for its software applications, widely used in the field of [[language description]], its collection of fonts, and for the maintenance of the [[Ethnologue]].
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• Descriptive adequacy
  ...tains a higher level of descriptive adequacy if it can handle more natural language data from more languages. ...ive adequacy obviously is closely related to what counts as 'good' natural language data, and hence to the concepts of [[grammaticality]] and [[well-formedness
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• Local
  ...e major functions of the noun phrase. In ''Language Typology and syntactic description,'' vol. 1. ''Clause structure,'' ed. by Timothy Shopen, pp. 62–154
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• Definite description
  '''Definite description''' is a definite noun phrase which is used to refer to exactly one individu ''the king of France'' in (i) is a definite description that can only be properly used if France has one and only one king:
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• Agglutinating language
  '''Agglutinating language''' is a language which has a morphological system in which words as a rule are polymorphemic ...(in)[[flectional language]]s, [[isolating language]]s, and [[polysynthetic language]]s. One basic assumption underlying this typology is that agglutination is
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• Realizational formula
  ...ance to a rewrite rule. But unlike rewrite or mutation rules in a process description, realization formulae are not necessarily ordered. For example, a pair of ...p://books.google.com/books/about/Language_and_Reality.html?id=vrlPUxB2_JwC Language and Reality: Selected Writings of Sydney Lamb], Continuum, 2004.
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• Ethnologue
  [[Category:Language description]]
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• Information packaging
  ...aging in the clause. In T. Shopen, eds., ''Language Typology and Syntactic Description'', 282-364. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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• Rigid designator
  ...he case with ''proper names'', i.e. [[name]]s of individuals. The definite description ''the president of the US'' may refer to different persons in different wor * Gamut, L.T.F. 1991. ''Logic, language, and meaning,'' Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago.
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• Debitiv
  ...tinctions in Grammar. In: T. Shopen (Hg.), Language Typology and Syntactic Description. Cambridge 2005.
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• Extension (syntax)
  ...to which an expression refers. The extension of a proper name or definite description is one entity; the extension of a predicate is a set of entities. The exten * Gamut, L.T.F. 1991. ''Logic, language, and meaning,'' Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago.
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• Accidental gap
  ...pected to exist given the hypothesized morphological rules of a particular language. describe *describal description
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• Motherese
  The language addressed to children by their caretakers is often called '''motherese'''. ...I will use the following broad definition of baby talk: ''Baby talk'': the language used by anyone in the linguistic community when addressing a child."'' (Ing
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• Descriptive linguistics
  ...sophistication, but never atheoretically), and general linguistics studies language in general.
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• Coordinator
  ...Coordination. In: Shopen, Timothy (ed.) ''Language typology and syntactic description, vol. II.'' Cambridge: Cambridge university Press, 1-51.
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• Speech-act participant
  Certain subsystems of a language’s grammar are sensitive to speech-act participants. (They do not distingu ...e major functions of the noun phrase. In ''Language Typology and syntactic description,'' vol. 1. ''Clause structure,'' ed. by Timothy Shopen, pp. 62–154
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• Coordinand
  ...Coordination. In: Shopen, Timothy (ed.) ''Language typology and syntactic description, vol. II.'' Cambridge: Cambridge university Press, 1-51.
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• Tarski's truth definition
  S is a structural description of a sentence of a language L, v is a circumstance which has to be met, and p are the conditions that d * Gamut, L.T.F. 1991. ''Logic, language, and meaning,'' Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago.
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• Adhortativ
  ...tinctions in Grammar. In: T. Shopen (Hg.), Language Typology and Syntactic Description. Cambridge 2007.
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• Person
  ...ectional morphology. In: Shopen, T. [ed.] "Language typology and syntactic description". Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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• Optativ
  ...tinctions in Grammar. In: T. Shopen (Hg.), Language Typology and Syntactic Description. Cambridge 2005.
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• Functional Grammar
  '''Functional Grammar''' (FG) is a [[structural-functional theory of language]], of which [[Simon C. Dik]] was the initiator and main developer. The theo ..., FDG explicitly takes a strictly [[non-aprioristic]] stance on linguistic description, claiming that the definition of both structural ánd functional primitives
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• Logical form
  ...h respect to its logical properties, for example in the case of [[definite description]]s. ...nterpretation. LF is thus taken to be the interface between an expression (language) and its logical form (in the semantic sense). LF is derived from [[S-struc
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• Coordination
  ...Coordination. In: Shopen, Timothy (ed.) ''Language typology and syntactic description, vol. II.'' Cambridge: Cambridge university Press, 1-51.
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• Exklamativsatz
  ...nctions in Grammar. In: T. Shopen (Hg.), ''Language Typology and Syntactic Description.'' Cambridge. .... Portner. 2003. Exclamative Clauses: At the Syntax-Semantics Interface. ''Language'' 79.1, 39–81.
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• North Saami
  Language=North Saami Standard language 1948, reformed 1973. Recognized minority language in the municipalities of Kautokeino, Karasjok, Kåfjord, Nesseby, Porsanger
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• Viktor Jakovlevič Bunjakovskij
  ....e. numerical assertions about the complete inventory of the words of that language, about the distribution of these words according to the parts of speech, ab ...wasted, because the assumed gain of the exactness of the conclusions about language does not pay for the loss of time. We do not take on the responsibility of
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• Jiří Krámský
  ...to the present. Let us mention at least his school grammar of the English language (in two editions, 1979 and 1989), university textbooks concerning English o ...o word strata. His conclusion is of a kind exceeding the level of a simple description. He writes: ‘... the compensating tendency, peculiar to words of Persian
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• Onomastics (survey)
  ...hem. And such normal phrases can apply to every entity which satisfies the description made by the words, not to just one single entity. (Some phrases may become ...used to create names and keep them in circulation, in association with the language or languages of the community that uses them
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• Rolando Félix Armendáriz
  ...esis proposes that Yaqui is a primary object language, and that Yaqui is a language where grammatical relations as well as semantic relations are present. ...and rich [[voice]] phenomena in addition to an overall description of the language in the [[functional-typological]] framework. It is also a useful reference
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• Expressive
  ...nctions in Grammar. In: T. Shopen (Hg.), ''Language Typology and Syntactic Description.'' Cambridge.
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• Bohumil Trnka
  ...uage, to the theory of the linguistic sign, to the historical evolution of language, etc. is well-known. ...integration of quantitative studies in the Prague structuralist theory of language. He believed in the existence of general quantitative laws which govern the
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• Linguistic information system
  ...inguistic theory, and certainly not that it is genetically determined by a language gene. ...tem, you find larger and larger inventories: The number of morphemes in a language is quite large in comparison with the number of phonemes; the number of le
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• Donkey anaphora
  ...1979, Evans 1977, Heim 1990) take the pronoun to function as a [[definite description]] which copies its descriptive content from the context (of utterance): "th ...verbs of quantification,'' in: E. Keenan (ed.) Formal semantics of natural language, pp.3-15, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
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• Error analysis
  ...[[second language learners]] and aims at investigating aspects of [[second language acquisition]]. ..., whereas [[error analysis]] compares the learner’s data with the [[target language]] [[norm]] and identifies and explains errors accordingly (cf. James 1998).
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• Word
  ...eme]]) or that occurs between two spaces in the spelling or the linguist's description (= [[word-form]]). * Sapir, E. 1921. ''Language,'' Harcourt, Brace and World, New York.
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• Quantifier Raising
  ...violating the [[Complex NP Constraint]]. Other advantages of QR are in the description of [[Weak Crossover]] and Antecedent Contained Deletion. The exact conditio * Huang, James 1982. ''Move wh in a language without wh-movement,'' [[Linguistic review]], 369-416
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• History of quantitative linguistics
  ...ver, Markov chains are a central component of the corresponding methods of language technology (“Hidden Markov Models”; cf. e.g., Brants 1999)). ...first place, a consequence of practical demands: efforts to improve second language training and optimisation of stenographic systems are examples. Early quant
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• OR node
  ''(Description yet to be written.)'' ...w.cgi?bookid=CILT%20170 Pathways of the Brain: The Neurocognitive Basis of Language].'' Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
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• Aims and methods of quantitative linguistics
  ...difference lies rather in the ontological points of view (do we consider a language as a set of sentences with their structures assigned to them, or do we see ...es. There is, however, an immense number of of properties and processes in language which can be detected and analysed only with quantitative methods on the ba
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• Chomsky-Grammatik
  *– Ders., Three Models for the Description of Language. ''IRE Transactions on Information Theory'' 1956/2, 113–124.
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• Affixes
  ...s usually have a more restricted phonology, segments used for affixes in a language are only a subpart of the phoneme system. Affixes are usually shorter than In [[Kusunda]] (a language isolate of Nepal), at least some verbal suffixes may appear in random order
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• Satzmodus
  ...tinctions in Grammar. In: T. Shopen (Hg.), Language Typology and Syntactic Description. Cambridge, UK 2005. ...stinctions in Syntax. In: T. Shopen (Hg.), Language Typology and Syntactic Description. Cambridge, UK 1985, 155-196.
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• Imperativ
  .../ Imperative-Hortative Systems. In: M. Dryer et al. (Hg.), World Atlas of Language Structures. Oxford 2003, 286-298. ...tinctions in Grammar. In: T. Shopen (Hg.), Language Typology and Syntactic Description. Cambridge 2005.
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• Franz Boas
  ...anthropology, in studies ranging from racial classification to linguistic description focusing primarily on the languages and the peoples of northwestern U.S. an ...are historically recent and malleable. Even the profoundest differences in language and culture found among the world's peoples, he showed, do not affect the f
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• Tense
  The description of the models of time reference developed by Reichenbach (1947), Comrie (19 * Klein, W. (1994). ''Time in Language''. London: Routledge.
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• James D. McCawley/publications
  *1966a. Review of J. Yamagiwa (ed.), Papers of the CIC Far Eastern Language Institute. Lg. 42.170-75. ...Review of W. Cooper, Set theory and syntactic description. Foundations of Language 2.408-10.
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• Coherence
  ...eated (i.e. found in recipes, encyclopaedia entries, manuals etc.), or the description of either a living creature or an object (as found, for instance, in dictio ...course” (Report No. CSLI-85-37). Stanford, Calif.: Center for the Study of Language and Information. 1-35.
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• S.-Y. Kuroda/publications
  1960a. Gengo no Kijutsu. [Description of Language.] Tokyo: Kenkyu-sha. 1965a. Causative froms in Japanese. Foundations of Language 1. 30-50.
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• Jerzy Woronczak
  .... The professional who has devoted many years to mastering the traditional language of his discipline can only with difficulty and great humility accept a situ '''THE STATISTICAL LAWS OF LANGUAGE IN WORONCZAK’S RESEARCH'''
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• Wincenty Lutosławski
  ...s between the physical domain, defined by precise and formalised laws, and language. He realised that the contemporary level of linguistic and mathematical kno ...Ilościowość w myśleniu językowym [Quantity as a dimension of thought about language]. In: ''Symbolae Grammaticae in honorem Ioannis (Jan) Rozwadowski v.1.'' (F
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• Tenses of English
  ...icant innovation of Modern English in comparison to earlier stages of that language. This section provides a brief description of the temporal system proposed by Declerck (1991, 2006). For the sake of c
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• Boris Isaakovič Jarcho
  ...primary function of the analysis of text characteristics aims at an exact description of changes in literary text types and schools. ...understood as a first qualitative interpretation of the specific shape of language and speech distributions.
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• Maori
  | ||DET||book ||language||Maori | ||colspan=4|'A Maori language book'
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• Tsez
  |Language =Tsez ...age|Georgian]]) is a [[Northeast_Caucasian_languages|Northeast Caucasian]] language with about 7000 speakers spoken by the Tsez, a muslimic people in the moun
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