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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...
Word Formation in Japanese
Taro Kageyama
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2014-06-30
Word Formation in JapaneseIntroductionThe term “word formation” is used here as a broad term covering a wide array of word formation processes and mor...
Word Stress
Brett Hyde
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-11-27
Word StressIntroductionIn most, if not all, languages, each word has a syllable that is more prominent in some way than the others. The most prominent...
Writing Systems
Amalia E. Gnanadesikan, Richard Sproat
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2018-08-28
Writing SystemsIntroductionThe study of writing systems, or grammatology, is concerned with the means by which languages are represented by graphic sy...
Yiddish
Alexander Beider
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2019-03-27
YiddishIntroductionAccording to its main system-level characteristics, Yiddish belongs to the High German branch of West Germanic languages. During it...
Zapotecan Languages
Rosemary G. Beam de Azcona
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Zapotecan Languages Introduction Known for their numerous suprasegmental contrasts and VSO argument order, Zapotecan languages are indigenous t...
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