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Difference Phrasal Verb, Prepositional Verb and Prepositional Phrasal Verb

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Terms for abbreviations

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What do “finite” and “non-finite” mean in linguistics?

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If a transcription is shallower if closer to the phonetic end, then why are representations morphophoneMic, not morphophoneTIc?

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Why should Ideograph/Ideogram be shunned, because it can refer to morphograms and “semantic units”?

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What is meant by wordform?

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Please explain -emic vs. -etic to a 15 year old?

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What is a mora?

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Relation between some linguistics terms

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What is terminology for the difference between, for instance, “see” and “sees”?

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The classification of morphemes

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Why are the names of languages always adjectives? (e.g. “English”, “French”, “Spanish”)

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what is the difference between reference time and event time

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