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Words, phrases, and acronyms specific to the study of linguistics.
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Why are "first-person inclusive" forms called "first-person"?
There are interesting pragmatic consequences to using 1st person inclusive (1INC) in certain languages, e.g. in Tamil, 1INC is used by lower-caste members as a 1st person form to address higher-caste …
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What's the difference between counterbleeding, bleeding and feeding?
I'm going to start by going through some more detailed definitions of the various rule orderings, with examples:
If rule A creates the environment for rule B to apply, then rule A feeds rule B, e.g.
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Possessive constructions signifying semantic equation: term? distribution? explanation?
Definite descriptions such as "The City of Rome" are the subject of a 2013 paper by Michael Rieppel in Linguistics and Philosophy: 'The Double Life of the Mayor of Oakland'. Rieppel analyses descripti …
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What do you call an activity accomplished by other activities
I'm don't think that the two examples you mention should be grouped together linguistically as a single class (to the exclusion of other activity verbs).
Levin (1993) classes teach as a verb of tran …
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Interchangeable arguments with English copula
[V' is [predP John [pred' pred
[NP a doctor]]]]]]]
The copular takes a small clause complement (a "predP", in Mikkelsen's terminology). … Some terminology, following @cerberus's suggestion:
e = the semantic type 'individual' (the type of, e.g. a proper name)
t = the semantic type 'truth-value' (the type of a sentence)
<e,t> = a function …
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What's the difference between recursion and embedding?
Recursion in phrase structure grammar is where an expression of some type contains an expression of that same type. Under this definition, chains of relative clauses count as an instance of recursion. …
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Is there a term for a finite verb which cannot be followed by an infinitive verb, in English?
There is no special term for a verb which can not be followed by an infinitive, but there are a variety of special terms for those which can. It turns out that treating all verbs that can be followed …
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