language structure

Syntagmatic Lexical Relation

Explores how words relate to each other based on their co-occurrence in text. It focuses on predictable patterns and collocations,…

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Separable Affix

Separable affixes are prefixes or suffixes in some languages that can be detached from the main verb and placed elsewhere…

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Remote Future Tense

The remote future tense describes actions or states that will occur at an unspecified or distant point in the future,…

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Relativizer

A relativizer is a linguistic element that introduces a relative clause, modifying a noun or pronoun. It connects the subordinate…

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Reduplication

Reduplication is a morphological process where a word or part of a word is repeated to convey grammatical or semantic…

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Prolative Case

The prolative case is a grammatical case used in some languages to denote motion or direction towards a specific goal…

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Prespan-End Relation

The Prespan-End Relation in linguistics describes the temporal relationship between an event and the time it is spoken about. It's…

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Postpositional Phrase

A postpositional phrase is a group of words, usually including a postposition and its object, that functions as a unit.…

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Postposition

A postposition is a word that follows a noun or pronoun and modifies its grammatical function, similar to how prepositions…

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Polysynthetic Language

A polysynthetic language combines many morphemes into a single, complex word, often equivalent to a full sentence in other languages.…

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