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• Context dependence
  ...s the phenomenon that the interpretation of an expression depends on the [[context]] in which it is used. ...any'' or ''big'', because what counts as many or big always depends on the context in which these words are used (a big mouse may be a small animal).
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• Substitution salva veritate
  ...alva veritate''' is the possibility of replacing an expression alpha by an expression beta with the same reference in such a way that the resulting sentence has ...Juliana sentence (i)a is equivalent to (i)b in which ''the eldest daughter of Juliana'' has been substituted for ''Beatrix''. Hence the substitution is s
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• Article
  ...ess]] and information status (new or given status. Sometimes these notions of specificity, definiteness and information status are summed up in the term ...nt sources (numerals and demonstratives) and need not be similar in formal expression or position.
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• Maxim of manner
  The '''maxim of manner''' is one of the Gricean [[conversational maxim]]s which constitute the [[Cooperative Pr ** Avoid obscurity of expression.
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• Gricean maxims
  ...nicative principles that were proposed by [[H.P. Grice]] as an elaboration of his [[Cooperative Principle]]. He distinguished four categories, with sever ...your contribution as informative as is required (for the current purposes of the exchange).
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• Negative polarity item
  A '''negative polarity item''' is an expression that is restricted to negative contexts and some other semantically related ...'a fig, a drop, a wink'', and verbal idioms such as ''lift a finger, budge an inch''.
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• Ambiguity, Polysemy and Vagueness
  ...omewhere in between these two extremes. The borders between the categories of ambiguity, polysemy and vagueness are fuzzy. Thus, there are lexical exampl ...ne meaning of an ambiguous expression can be used. There are several forms of ambiguity to be distinguished – according to their trigger:
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• Operational plausibility
  ...be put into operation in a realistic way. This principle, the requirement of '''operational plausibility''', has also been mentioned by Ray Jackendoff ( ...ted by many linguists, who work with theories of language that have no way of being put into operation for speaking and understanding.
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• Register (discourse)
  ...varieties of language (standard and dialect), while they use a “wide range of registers” (Barnickel 1982, 13; Biber 2000, 135; Halliday 1990, 43; Trudg ...ontext-based. The second perspective differentiates registers on the basis of text collections (Biber 1994, 20).
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• Habitual aspect
  ...85: 97). Some languages have tenses that are specialized to the expression of habitual aspect. ...ingle iterative situation rather than a characteristic or habitual feature of the person who is coughing.
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• Tenses of English
  ...tood' definition is for instance given in the ''International Encyclopedia of Linguistics'' (Bybee 1992: 223f.): ...eech, e. g. the past and future designate time before and after the moment of speech, respectively [...]. Tense is expressed by inflections, by particles
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• Tsez
  ...spoken by the Tsez, a muslimic people in the mountainous Tsunta district of southern and western [[Dagestan]], [[Russia]]. ...language|Arabic]] and Russian, mainly through loanwords and — in the case of Russian — even syntactically and stylistically.
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