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Compounding
Sergio Scalise, Francesca Forza
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Compounding Introduction Compounding is the morphological operation that—in general—puts together two free forms and gives rise to a new word. ...
Connectionism
Ping Li, Xiaowei Zhao
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
Connectionism Introduction Connectionism, also known as parallel distributed processing (PDP) or artificial neural networks, has been an impor...
Conversation Analysis
Jack Sidnell
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Conversation Analysis Introduction Conversation analysis (CA) is an approach to the study of social interaction that emerged in the 1960s in t...
Conversation, Maxims of
Benjamin Spector
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Maxims of Conversation Introduction One of the central goals of contemporary linguistic pragmatics is to account for how competent language us...
Coordination
Grant Goodall
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Coordination Introduction Coordination is a phenomenon in which two or more elements, known as “conjuncts,” are linked together, often with a ...
Creoles
Pieter Muysken, Margot van den Berg
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Creoles Introduction Languages in contact can result in the emergence of several new languages, ranging from pidgins and Creoles to intertwined...
Definiteness
Klaus von Heusinger
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Definiteness Introduction Definiteness is a semantic-pragmatic notion that is closely associated with the use of the definite article (or deter...
Dene-Yeniseian
Edward J. Vajda
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Dene-Yeniseian Introduction Dene-Yeniseian is a historical-comparative linguistic hypothesis that claims a genealogical relationship between th...
Dialogue
Raquel Fernández
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Dialogue Introduction Research on dialogue is concerned with the study of how communication takes place through language in conversation. This...
Distinctive Features
Daniel Currie Hall, Jeff Mielke
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Distinctive Features Introduction In phonological theory the building blocks of speech sounds are often argued to be what are called “distincti...
Eskimo-Aleut
Anna Berge
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Eskimo-Aleut Introduction The Eskimo-Aleut language family is spoken from the Chukotka Peninsula in the Russian Far East, across subarctic and ...
Evidentials
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Evidentials Introduction Evidentiality is a grammatical category with source of information as its primary meaning—whether the speaker saw the ...
Fieldwork
Keren Rice
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Fieldwork Introduction When you hear the word “fieldwork,” you probably think of someone going to some remote location to study a language that...
Gender
Jenny Audring
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Gender Introduction Grammatical gender is a feature of nouns, reflected on elements that agree with them. In nouns, gender is an invariable lex...
Genealogical Classification
Søren Wichmann
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Genealogical Classification Introduction In spite of a long tradition of linguists dealing empirically with the classification of languages, g...
Generative Syntax
Knut Tarald Taraldsen
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Generative Syntax Introduction Generative syntax is a major subfield of generative grammar, an outgrowth of American structuralism in its insis...
Gestures
Adam Kendon
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Gestures Introduction This article, after listing recent general works and surveys, is organized first to reflect the historical development of...
Grammaticalization
D. Gary Miller
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Grammaticalization Introduction The essence of grammaticalization is the evolution of a lexical category to a grammatical one or of a hybrid/fu...
History of the English Language
Ans van Kemenade, Bettelou Los
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
History of the English Language Introduction The study of the history of the English language has a long and rich tradition, starting with a r...
IPA
John H. Esling
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
IPA Introduction The acronym IPA can refer either to the International Phonetic Association or to the International Phonetic Alphabet. The Inte...
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