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Words, phrases, and acronyms specific to the study of linguistics.

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Is a loanword also a cognate or are the two terms mutually exclusive?

Just to illustrate that there is not a complete consensus about the definition, this is how David Crystal defines it in A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics cognate (adj./n.) (1) A language o …
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Why is the definite article in Balkan languages always called a suffix when it really seems ...

I don't see why a definite article suffix and "definiteness" as a noun property contradict each other. The "definiteness" is achieved by attaching a suffix morpheme to the indefinite version. And jus …
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