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Machine Translation
François Yvon
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Machine Translation Introduction Machine translation (MT) is an interdisciplinary scientific field that brings together linguists, lexicologis...
Maintenance, Language
David Bradley
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2022-05-26
Language MaintenanceIntroductionLanguage maintenance involves efforts to maintain an existing language, as opposed to language planning (see the separ...
Mande Languages
Dmitry Idiatov
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2017-01-11
Mande LanguagesIntroductionMande languages are spoken across much of inland West Africa up to the northwest of Nigeria as their eastern limit. The cen...
Markedness
Livio Gaeta
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2017-02-28
MarkednessIntroductionMarkedness is a central concept in the study of linguistics in the 20th and 21st centuries, and it can be traced back to the ear...
Mass-Count Distinction
Alan Bale, David Barner
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Mass-Count Distinction Introduction The mass-count distinction is reflected in the syntax and semantics of nouns, verbs, adjectives, and quanti...
Mathematical Linguistics
Alice G.B. ter Meulen
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Mathematical Linguistics Introduction Mathematical linguistics is a field of scientific linguistic inquiry applying mathematical methods and co...
Mayan Languages
Nora C. England, Roberto Zavala Maldonado
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Mayan LanguagesIntroductionThe Mayan family of languages consists of about thirty extant languages plus at least two (Chicomuceltec and Ch’olti’) that...
Mental Health Disorders, Language in
Dennis Tay
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2019-07-31
Language in Mental Health DisordersIntroductionMental health disorders are conditions that disturb thought, mood, behaviors, or combinations of all th...
Mental Lexicon, The
Niels Schiller
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2021-10-27
The Mental LexiconIntroductionThe term Mental Lexicon, sometimes seen as an online version of a dictionary, is often taken to refer to the part of our...
Mesoamerican Languages
Nora C. England, Roberto Zavala Maldonado
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Mesoamerican LanguagesIntroductionMesoamerica as a linguistic area extends from central Mexico south and east through Guatemala and Belize and into we...
Metaphor
Mark Johnson
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-11-27
MetaphorIntroductionFor nearly 2,500 years, since the time of Aristotle, scholars assumed that metaphor was simply a matter of language—cases in which...
Metathesis
Beth Hume, Scott Seyfarth
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2019-08-28
MetathesisIntroductionMetathesis is a term used in linguistics to describe a language pattern where a sequence of two sounds occurs in one order in on...
Metonymy
Klaus-Uwe Panther
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2019-10-30
MetonymyIntroductionMetonymy (Greek μετωνυμία, Latin denominatio) has been known as a rhetorical trope since Greek antiquity. The online Oxford Englis...
Minority Languages
Lenore Grenoble, Adam Roth Singerman
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2014-02-25
Minority Languages Introduction The term “minority language” enjoys a natural, but problematic, definition. In the most straightforward sense,...
Mixe-Zoquean Languages
Søren Wichmann
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Mixe-Zoquean Languages Introduction Mixe-Zoquean languages are spoken in an area spanning the Mexican isthmus of Tehuantepec. One member of th...
Mixed Languages
Peter Bakker
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-06-25
Mixed Languages Introduction The identification of a set of contact languages, many of which shared structural and social features that set th...
Modification
Sebastian Bücking
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2015-06-29
ModificationIntroductionThis article assembles sources that are concerned with modification as a combinatorial semantic operation—in, for example, gre...
Mon-Khmer Languages
Jan-Olof Svantesson
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
Mon-Khmer LanguagesIntroductionThe Mon-Khmer languages are spoken over a large scattered area in Mainland Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Mya...
Morphological Change
Geert Booij
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2014-02-25
Morphological Change Introduction Morphology is the subdiscipline of linguistics that deals with the structure of words. The study of word str...
Morphology
Mark Aronoff
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Morphology Introduction Morphology, the study of forms, is the branch of linguistics that deals with the internal structure of complex words. T...
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