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• Marker
  ...adposition]] that ''marks'' something, i.e. codes a particular grammatical meaning.
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• Meaning
  '''Meaning''' is a central notion of [[semantics]] und [[pragmatics]]. ...he relevant terms and, as a consequence, to a rather vague concept of what meaning is.
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• Biuniqueness
  ...] has one phonological form and one [[meaning]], and every [[meaning]] (or grammatical category) corresponds to exactly one phonological form.
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• Anomaly
  ...ammatical]], is meaningless because there is an [[incompatibility]] in the meaning of the words. It is unclear whether anomaly is a linguistic phenomenon. However, [[grammatical]]ity, as opposed to [[acceptable|acceptability]], is a linguistic phenomeno
  723 bytes (91 words) - 18:21, 25 July 2010
• Cranberry morpheme
  ...'' is a type of [[bound morpheme]] that cannot be assigned a meaning nor a grammatical function, but nonetheless serves to distinguish one word from the other. ...''raspberry'', ''blackberry'', and ''gooseberry''. Still, ''cran'' has no meaning and does not function as an independent [[word]]: ''cranberry'' is the only
  967 bytes (130 words) - 08:27, 21 May 2008
• Morpheme
  ...omponent of a word that (a) seems to contribute some sort of meaning, or a grammatical function to the word to which it belongs, and (b) cannot itself be decompos ...is two morphemes, ''kangaroo'' and plural ''-s''. The ''-s'' expresses the meaning 'many' or 'more than one' in this example.
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• Subject
  ===Linguistic meaning=== ...formal'' (different length –one or more words) and ''functional'' (takes a grammatical task) determinable. In some languages like Latin or German, the subject sta
  963 bytes (153 words) - 13:10, 13 May 2016
• Polyfunctionality
  ...on that one [[affix]] is used with a number of different [[meaning]]s or [[grammatical function]]s.
  780 bytes (95 words) - 21:11, 19 February 2009
• Tone language
  .... Thus, tone languages use tonal contrasts to distinguish word meanings or grammatical categories (such as tense).
  548 bytes (75 words) - 18:51, 29 August 2014
• Attribute
  The term with this meaning is particulary common in the grammatical traditions of German ([[Attribut]], [[Beifügung]]) and Russian (''opredele From Latin ''attributum'' 'what has been attributed'. First attested in this grammatical sense in the early 19th century.
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• Lexical integrity
  ...took the ''tea_i pot, and poured it_i into the cup'', meaning 'he poured the tea into the cup'. See [[Lexicalist hypothesis]]. * Lapointe, 1980. ''The Theory of Grammatical Agreement,'' PhD. diss. Univ. of Mass., Amherst.
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• Root
  A '''root''' is a part of a [[word]] with [[lexical meaning]] that cannot be broken down further. ''Root'' is a term which is not uniqu ...'. The [[morpheme]]s un-. -en and -er have grammatical rather than lexical meaning and therefore are [[affix]]es, not roots.
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• Incorporation
  ...ides a wealth of examples. The constructions in (i) and (ii) have the same meaning and use the same roots. However, in (ii) the root ''qora'' 'reindeer' has b * Baker, M. 1988. ''Incorporation: A Theory of Grammatical Function Changing,'' University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
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• Verbal extension
  ...sion, the lexical content correlates with the position of the suffix; more grammatical extensions like passive tend to occur before the final vowel, and more lexi
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• Affixes
  ...hey are parts of the syntactic X⁰). Affixes need stems as their grammatical hosts, they necessarily cooccur with stems. ...e usually shorter than stems, are phonologically bound, have more abstract meaning than stems and occur in a fixed order (but see counterexamples below).
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• Portal:Semantics
  This portal presents the most central topics in the study of meaning. '''Meaning and use'''<br>
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• Elliptical
  The tern ''ellipsis'' is rarely used with a strictly defined meaning. Linguists have often attempted to distinguish various different types of n ...to fall short, leave out', from ''en-'' 'in' + ''leipein'' 'to leave'. The grammatical sense is first attested in 1612.
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• Gender (grammar)
  :::''"By the term ''gender'' is here meant any ''grammatical'' class-division presenting some analogy to the distinction in the Aryan la ...gender]] (which designates the biological sex of animate referents) and [[grammatical gender]] (categorisations which depend on other, culturally specific criter
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• Role and Reference Grammar
  *Van Valin, Robert D., Jr. & LaPolla, Randy. 1997. ''Syntax: structure, meaning and function.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. *Pavey, Emma L. 2010. ''The Structure of Language: An Introduction to Grammatical Analysis.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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• Agglutinating language
  ...polymorphemic and where each [[morpheme]] corresponds to a single lexical meaning. ...istinctions in Word-formation. In Shopen, T. (ed.) ''Language Typology and Grammatical Description, vol. 3.'' Cambridge: CUP.
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