Questions tagged [phrases]
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Is there a linguistic term for a term in a language refering to a specific technology, outliving said technology?
In language, phrases and various semantic expressions referring to technologies often make their way into the language, even if that technology is mostly obsolete.
Examples of this could include "...
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What is the syntactic function (if there is any) of the prefix in some German verbs?
Consider the following sentence:
"Ich rufe dich an".
It is a very simple Standard German sentence with the verb "anrufen", the unusual thing about it is this prefix that comes ...
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Is it more correct to use the minor and major foot groups in the IPA than commas and periods?
I transcribed some phrases from TV. This is casual American connected speech:
As you can notice I'm using the | and || symbols instead of the commas and periods. Also, I do not show the question mark,...
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Are these "phrases" or "clauses" before a noun a modifier adjective?
In these clauses or sentences "I love those "I love you" messages" or "I hate those "I love you" messages",
Is this "phrase" or "clause", &...
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Phraseology definition
What's difference between free-phrase and fixed phrase?
Because for some linguist differentiate phraseme (fixed phrase) into 3 part, vollidiomatizität, teilidiomatizität und nichtidiomatizität.
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Is there such thing as a 'hyperphrase'?
In linguistics there is a common hierarchy of words:
Hypernym (e.g. Colours)
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Hyponym (e.g. Brown, yellow)
Does such a hierarchy exist within phrases?
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Identifying clauses (including finite and non finite) and analysing internal structure of the clauses
An example of how to do this is from the sentence
"I was on holiday, but when I saw the pictures I went straight away"
I / was / on holiday
S:NP / V / SC:PP
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The difference between headwords and main words
Not while ago, I was provided with a handout adressing types of phrases and in the very beginning, my lecturer stated this :
Now, what I'm basically trying to know is, first: whether the info is valid ...
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Detached Predicative with NONFINITE Clauses
I have just stumbled upon a sentence:
Dressed in a white dress, Stella looked breathtakingly beautiful.
I was wondering if the very first part of the sentence (Dressed in a white dress-nonfinite "...
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What are lexeme, word and phrase in HPSG?
In “Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar: The handbook” by Abeillé and Borsley, it says:
lexeme, word, and phrase have a complex system of subtypes. The type lexical-sign, its subtypes, and the ...
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Is "down at the bar" an adjective phrase or adverb phrase?
There are three parts of speeches attributed to "down" in the dictionary: adjective, adverb and verb.
I understand , that at the bar is a sub phrase and a prepositional phrase.
I don't know the rules ...
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Is there a chart showing all assignments of phrases to functions within a sentence?
For practical reasons, it is obvious to assume there is chart giving an overview which phrases can be assigned to which functions in a sentence.
For instance, one sentence function is called an ...
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Phrase suggestion model using a gold standard corpus
There are already spell checking models available which help us to find the suggested correct spellings based on a corpus of trained correct spellings. Can the granularity be increased to "word" from ...
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