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• Languoid
  ...simplest case, languoids are languages or [[dialect]]s, but [[genealogical group]]s of languages (or [[linguistic area|areal groups]], or indeed any other g ...guage with different [[lect|lectal]] variants, or a low-level genealogical group consisting of different languages. In all these situations, the groups are
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• Stock
  A '''stock''' is a [[genealogical group]] of languages of considerable [[time depth]], where the relatedness of the ...ish ''stock'' (originally 'tree trunk or stump') has long been used in the sense of 'origin' or 'family', apparently following Latin ''stirps'' 'trunk; orig
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• Syllabary
  A group of symbols representing [[syllable]]s of a spoken language and used to writ The term '''syllabary''' is used in a different sense in theories of [[speech production]] where it is assumed that there is '''a
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• Syncretism
  The term has originally been used in the sense of "combining different religions", and was transferred to linguistics in t [http://www.smg.surrey.ac.uk/ Syncretism database] of the [[Surrey Morphology Group]]
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• Face (concept)
  ...ogress and develops within social interaction. Each individual in a social group has his/ her own face that he/she wants to protect against threats. Sense of face in social interaction is mutual with regard to individuals sending
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• Profile (in Cognitive Grammar)
  ...[pronoun]]s, [[NP]]s, etc.) profile a Thing, which is defined as a reified group. Adjectives, adverbs and adpositions profile (non-processual) relations of ...EAVESDROP than does EAVES. In ''neighbor lady'' or ''slam-dunk'' it makes sense to say that both components are profile determinant, and in ''spitfire'' or
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• Jan Czekanowski
  ...her languages, as well as 16 other features specific to the Balto-Slavonic group only (''ibid.'' 15–17). The author of the list of discriminant features w ...in the discussion over the Slavs primal homeland. With his characteristic sense of humour he said that it is difficult to present convincing evidence in th
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• Future tense
  ...edictive senses of the ''will''-construction. The common future predictive sense implies that futurity depends on the fulfilment of future conditions: The meaning of the present predictive sense is comparable to the meaning of ''must'' and implies logical necessity:
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• Affixes
  ...fix]]. The Czech and German examples above are not circumfixes in a proper sense. For details see [[circumfix]]. | there'''-on.the.beach-in.a.group-in.the.house'''-TEL-COND.1pl
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• Coherence
  ...oherence is primarily concerned with the construction and configuration of sense in the text i.e. how its single [[constituent]]s are connected so that the ...e. There are no cohesive ties explaining the three sentences as concurrent sense-related events specifying and explaining each other. Although the anaphoric
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• Situation
  Perhaps ''situation'' has first been used in this more technical semantic sense in Comrie (1976). According to Comrie (p.c. to Martin Haspelmath, May 2006) ...occurrences, processes, achievements, activities and accomplishments. They group them by only three ontological features: (1) (non)staticness (2) (non)durat
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• Ambiguity, Polysemy and Vagueness
  ...and pronounced but just accidentally share the same form: ''ball'' in the sense of the round object originates in the Old Norse word ‘ballr’, whereas ' ...tatement “He is a ''tall'' man.” is vague as well. ''Tall'' belongs to the group of gradable adjectives. Therefore, the boundaries of the category ''tall''
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• Tenses of English
  ...his way are called 'weak verbs' or 'regular verbs'. There is another large group of English verbs which are called 'strong verbs' or 'irregular verbs'. Thes ...re often used to “combine reference to a post-present actualization with a sense of present judgement” (Declerck 2006: 337). Some of these forms could be
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