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Words, phrases, and acronyms specific to the study of linguistics.
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What is the proper term for this part of a statement?
The words this and that are demonstrative pronouns. The sentences "I would be more tired" and "I actually ended up being" have the same syntactic function as "this" and "that" would have. But, being f …
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What is a middle voice and a medio-passive voice?
In order to explain the evolution of the third person accusative pronoun in IE languages, Mark Beadles makes use of the concepts of middle and medio-passive voices. But the discussion that followed hi …
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Can the term "gerund" be linguistically defined?
The Wikipedia entry for gerund starts with a list that shows how the term is applied to various languages. And we can see that what the term actually means depends a lot on the specific language we ar …
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What is the term for, and a list of, "continuous dialects"?
This phenomenon is called language continuum or dialect continuum. According to Wikipedia:
In sociolinguistics, a language continuum is said to exist when two or more different languages or dialec …
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What exactly is diglossia?
Any language has a formal variety, primarily (although not exclusively) used in writing, and one or more informal varieties, used in everyday speech. Yet, for some languages, like Norwegian and Arabic …
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What is the definition of "complementary distribution"?
Allophones are defined by means of complementary distribution. As I understand it, a complementary distribution is a "mutually exclusive" relationship between two phones, with regard to a certain phon …
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