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Etymology and Morphology
In lexicography is the following claim correct?
To describe the origin of a word in a dictionary only you need either describe its 'etymology' (if that word has a single morpheme) or 'morphology' (if ...
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Important english word which doesn't exist in another language
I'm looking for an important English word which doesn't have a corresponding word in another language. I would be happy even it's a language spoken only by a small population.
Preferably, the word is ...
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Hierarchy of meanings in a dictionary
What base does vocabulary.com use for its hierarchy of meanings of a word? For example see http://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/sound. Are top levels (numbered list) all homonyms?
What structure do ...
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Is our mental lexicon structured like a tag-cloud system or hierarchical?
Thinking about this discussion on meta i was reasoning about simple self-experiments you can do in psycholinguistics, where you dont need great background knowledge in Cognitive Psychology or ...
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Are there dictionaries like Collins COBUILD for other languages than English? [closed]
Let me explain what I'm after:
monolingual
all examples are taken from a large corpus of contemporary text (the COBUILD series is now using Bank of English)
the senses for each entry are sorted by ...
