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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
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• 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
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• 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
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• Polyfunctionality
  ...on that one [[affix]] is used with a number of different [[meaning]]s or [[grammatical function]]s.
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• Tone language
  .... Thus, tone languages use tonal contrasts to distinguish word meanings or grammatical categories (such as tense).
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• 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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• Ellipsis
  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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• Lexeme (in neurocognitive linguistics)
  ...is activated it activates the rest of the functional web -- connections to meaning nodes and to phonological nodes and graphic nodes. ...nd links to which it is connected. Every lexeme has its connection to the grammatical tactics. And it connects downwards to expression in some cases as a simple
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• Verb
  ...verbum'' (word). Already in the Middle Ages it was used in its grammatical meaning by missionars.
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• Definite description
  According to Russell, the grammatical form of these sentences misleadingly suggests that ''the king of France'' i * Gamut, L.T.F. 1991. ''Logic, language, and meaning,'' Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago.
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• Aktionsart
  ...nment (cf. Verkuyl 1993: 43). [[Lexical aspect]] and its difference from [[grammatical aspect]] has been prominently investigated in Slavonic linguistics. The lin ...difference between the two concepts is non-trivial (cf. Tôbîn 1993: 3). [[Grammatical aspect]] concerns the viewpoint from which a situation is viewed. '''Aktion
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• Radical reanalysis
  ...the [[reinterpretation]] of a [[linguistic unit]] as belonging to a new [[grammatical category]] not present in the respective grammar before. ...ith the verb to have or in the past-participle form ''-en'' (also the past meaning of some of the forms, which were originally past tense, was lost) among oth
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• Relational network
  ...erties -- grammatical and lexical or semantic -- and if we ponder what the meaning of 'has' is here, it is that the morpheme is connected to such properties. After the relationships of the morpheme to other elements -- phonological, grammatical, etc, are thus plotted, the symbol that has been representing it can be rem
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• Affix
  .... short. They often have a semantically bleached meaning (vague, abstract, grammatical), especially compared to [[root]]s. The element to which an affix attaches
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• Feature
  ...V]; V=[-N,+V]; A=[+N,+V]; P=[-N,-V]; see also [[X-bar theory]]). Among the grammatical features we find features for person, number and gender (so-called 'Phi-fea In lexical (esp. [[decompositional]]) semantics, features stand for meaning components of (semantically non-primitive) lexical concepts. They can also
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• Complement
  ...sists of the [[verb]] plus the complements and optional [[adjunct]]s. This meaning is standard in Russian-language linguistics.) The oldest meaning of complement seems to have been [[dependent]] (i.e. not just [[argument]]s
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• Ambiguity, Polysemy and Vagueness
  ...ed in cognitive semantics referring to different instances of plurality of meaning. According to Deane (1988) these three phenomena “form a gradient between ...wever, disregarding puns (see 1.5), in every linguistic situation only one meaning of an ambiguous expression can be used. There are several forms of ambiguit
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• Grammatisches Morphem
  * Croft, William. 2000. Lexical and grammatical meaning. In: Booji, Geert, Lehmann, Christian & Mugdan, Joachim (eds.). 2000. ''Mor
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• Japanese
  ...be highly influenced by Chinese standards, such as characters representing meaning instead of sound. <br>
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• Profile (in Cognitive Grammar)
  Langacker claims (e.g. 2007:438-441) that the most basic grammatical categories (including [[noun]] and [[verb]] and their major subclasses, alo ...her syntagmatically, it is usual for the composite semantic structure (the meaning of the complex symbolic structure) to inherit its profile from one of its c
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• Satzmodus
  *L. A. Michaelis, Word Meaning, Sentence Meaning and Constructional Meaning. In: H. Cuyckens, R. Dirven and J. Taylor (Hg.), Cognitive Perspectives on *P. Portner & R. Zanuttini, Project 'Clause Types: Form and Force in Grammatical Theory'. Linguistics Department of Georgetown Univ. 2005ff.
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• Converb
  ...1999. ‘Converbs’. In Brown K. & J. Miller (eds.), Concise encyclopedia of grammatical *König, E. 1995. ‘The meaning of converb constructions’. In Haspelmath, M. & E. König (eds.), Converbs
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• Cohesion
  ...the two terms “[i]t is generally accepted […] that cohesion refers to the grammatical and lexical elements on the surface of a text which can form connections be ...all under the category of grammatical cohesion, while conjunction combines grammatical, as well as, lexical features, and lexical cohesion which is only realized
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• Performative
  ...the syntactic level, however, both performatives and constatives take the grammatical form of declarative sentences. Austin revises his theory considerably in th *Thomas, Jenny.(1997) ''Meaning in Interaction – An Introduction to Pragmatics'', London et.al.:Longman.
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• Tenses of English
  Tense refers to the grammatical expression of the time of the situation described in the proposition, relat ...ll'' has undergone a process of [[grammaticalization]], during which a new grammatical category has developed. This view of the existence of three tenses (present
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• James D. McCawley/publications
  *1967b. Meaning and the description of language. Kotoba no Uchu 2.9.10-18, 2.10.38-48, and *1973e. Grammar and Meaning. Tokyo: Taishukan. Consists of annotated versions of 1967b, 1968cfhi, 1970a
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• S.-Y. Kuroda/publications
  1965b. Generative Grammatical Studies in the Japanese Language. PhD. Dissertation. MIT. Reprinted, Garlan ...ido: Tokyo. English translation: Grammatical Transformation and changes of meaning. Linguistic Notes from La Jolla 3. 41-46. 1970.
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• Coherence
  ...elationship between clauses and clause complexes, which are independent of grammatical structure.<br /> ...05: 21-22) points out that the textual structure can be analysed both on a grammatical and on a thematic level, i.e. with respect to the syntactic-semantic relati
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• Tsez
  ...or [[grammatical number|number]] and [[grammatical case|case]], and have [[grammatical gender|noun classes]] assigned to them. ! meaning
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