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Tense, Aspect, and Mood
Robert Binnick
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2017-04-27
Tense, Aspect, and MoodIntroductionAmong the grammatical categories marked in the verbs of natural languages are tense, aspect, and mood (abbreviated ...
Tone
Bert Remijsen
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Tone Introduction When the phonological form of a morpheme consistently gives rise to a specific pattern of fundamental frequency (f0), this mo...
Tone Sandhi
Jie Zhang
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2014-01-30
Tone SandhiIntroductionTone sandhi, a phonological process by which lexical tones exhibit contextually determined alternation, is commonly observed in...
Topic
Reiko Vermeulen
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2016-02-25
TopicIntroductionThe topic of a sentence is generally described as the item that the sentence is about. It is principally a notion of information stru...
Transcription
Willem de Reuse
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2014-01-30
Transcription Introduction For the layman, transcription connotes medical transcription, court transcription, musical transcription, or even g...
Transitivity and Voice
Seppo Kittilä
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-10-29
Transitivity and Voice Introduction Transitivity and voice have a rather long history in linguistics, both dating back to ancient Greek. Initi...
Translation
Sara Laviosa
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2018-11-29
TranslationIntroductionThe theoretical, empirical, and pedagogic study of translation is the concern of the interdisciplinary and international field ...
Trubetzkoy, Nikolai
Edwin Battistella
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2014-02-25
Nikolai Trubetzkoy Introduction Nikolai Sergeyevich Trubetzkoy is regarded by many as the creator of the science of phonology. His posthumousl...
Tucanoan Languages
Kristine Stenzel
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-10-29
Tucanoan Languages Introduction Tucanoan languages are spoken in northwestern Amazonia, in regions of Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, the...
Tupian Languages
Aryon Dall'Igna Rodrigues, Ana Suelly Arruda Câmara Cabral
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2014-01-30
Tupian Languages Introduction The Tupian stock is a well-established South American linguistic genetic group. The antiquity of archeological e...
Typology
Robert Henderson
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Typology Introduction Typology is used to cover two related types of investigations: (1) classifying languages based on shared grammatical pro...
Usage-Based Linguistics
Holger Diessel
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2014-09-29
Usage-Based LinguisticsIntroductionSince the beginning of modern linguistics—that is, since Ferdinand de Saussure’s Cours de Linguistique Générale—it ...
Uto-Aztecan Languages
Jason D. Haugen
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Uto-Aztecan LanguagesIntroductionThe Uto-Aztecan languages make up one of the largest and most widespread language families of the Western Hemisphere....
Valency Theory
Dagobert Höllein
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2020-03-25
Valency TheoryIntroductionValency theory is a grammatical theory which focuses on the verb or the predicate as its center. Modern valency theory was f...
Verbs, Serial
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2018-10-25
Serial VerbsIntroductionSerial verb constructions, or serial verbs, are sequences of verbs without any overt marker of coordination, subordination, or...
Visual Word Recognition
Melvin J. Yap
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2019-08-28
Visual Word RecognitionIntroductionWords are the building blocks of language, and visual word recognition is a crucial prerequisite for skilled readin...
Voice and Voice Quality
Jody Kreiman
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2020-01-15
Voice and Voice QualityIntroductionThe sound of a voice—its quality—plays an integral role in the biological and social existences of animal species r...
Vowel Harmony
Harry van der Hulst
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Vowel Harmony Introduction We speak of vowel harmony when there is a general condition that demands that all vowels within a certain domain, us...
Whitney, William Dwight
Stephen G. Alter
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2021-01-12
William Dwight WhitneyIntroductionThe American Sanskritist and linguist William Dwight Whitney (b. 1827–d. 1894) was his country’s most important prof...
Word Classes
Nikolaus P. Himmelmann
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2017-05-24
Word ClassesIntroductionWord classes are among the very few grammatical concepts that have continuously played a central role in grammatical theory an...
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