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Default Semantics
Katarzyna Jaszczolt
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2021-02-24
Default SemanticsIntroductionDefault Semantics (DS) is a theory of discourse that represents the main meaning intended by the speaker and recovered by...
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...
Dementia and Language
Joël Macoir
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2021-04-21
Dementia and LanguageIntroductionNeurodegenerative diseases progress over three distinct stages: (1) the preclinical stage, at which individuals can b...
Dene-Yeniseian
Edward J. Vajda
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Dene-YeniseianIntroductionDene-Yeniseian is a historical-comparative linguistic hypothesis that claims a genealogical relationship between the North A...
Dependencies
Igor Mel’čuk
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-11-27
Dependencies Introduction Linguistic dependency is a binary relation between lexemes (≈ words) in an utterance; it is antireflexive, antisymme...
Dependencies, Long Distance
Brooke Larson
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2017-06-27
Long Distance DependenciesIntroductionWords bear relations and interact with other words in every sentence. These interactions can take the form of ov...
Derivational Morphology
Rochelle Lieber
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2016-03-31
Derivational MorphologyIntroductionDerivational morphology is concerned with forming new lexemes, that is, words that differ either in syntactic categ...
Determiners
E. Phoevos Panagiotidis
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2014-04-28
Determiners Introduction Determiners are a nominal syntactic category distinct both from adjectives and nouns, despite the close affinity amon...
Dialectology
Kirk Hazen
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2014-09-29
DialectologyIntroductionDialectology is not a coherent field with a single set of methodologies. Instead, it has developed since the 1960s to become a...
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...
Diglossia
Lotfi Sayahi
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2019-05-29
DiglossiaIntroductionDiglossia describes a situation of a complementary functional distribution of two or more language varieties. The varieties in qu...
Disfluency
Scott H. Fraundorf, Jennifer Arnold, Valerie J. Langlois
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2014-04-28
DisfluencyIntroductionDisfluencies are interruptions in the regular flow of speech, such as using uh and um, pausing silently, repeating words, or int...
Distinctive Features
Daniel Currie Hall, Jeff Mielke
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Distinctive FeaturesIntroductionIn phonological theory the building blocks of speech sounds are often argued to be what are called “distinctive featur...
Dravidian Languages
Sanford Steever
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2014-04-28
Dravidian LanguagesIntroductionBy number of speakers, the Dravidian language family is the fourth or fifth largest in the world. It includes approxima...
Ellipsis
Adam Szczegielniak
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2018-04-26
EllipsisIntroductionEllipsis in linguistics refers to a construction whose phonological form is missing relative to the form that construction should ...
Endangered Languages
Chris Rogers, Lyle Campbell
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Endangered LanguagesIntroductionEndangered languages are one of the highest priorities in linguistics in the early 21st century and one of the most ur...
English as a Lingua Franca
Jennifer Jenkins, Will Baker
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2020-04-22
English as a Lingua FrancaIntroductionThe phenomenon of English as a lingua franca (ELF), in other words English used among speakers who have differen...
English, Early Modern
Terttu Nevalainen
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2021-01-12
Early Modern EnglishIntroductionThe English language spoken and written in the 16th and 17th centuries has many names: it is variously known as Renais...
English, Old
Cynthia Allen
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2022-05-26
Old EnglishIntroductionThe West Germanic language brought to England from northwestern Germany and southern Denmark in the early 5th century ce is kno...
Ergativity
Jessica Coon, Maayan Abenina-Adar
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-06-25
ErgativityIntroductionErgativity refers to a system of marking grammatical relations in which intransitive subjects pattern together with transitive o...
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