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1number — I. v. a. 1. Count, enumerate, tell, reckon, calculate, compute, numerate, call over, tell off, run over, sum up. 2. Reckon, account. 3. Equal in number. 4. Amount to, reach the number of, contain, include, consist of. 5. Designate by number,… …
2Affix grammar — An affix grammar is a kind of formal grammar; it is used to describe the syntax of languages, mainly computer languages, using an approach based on how natural language is typically described.The grammatical rules of an affix grammar are those of …
3Semitic languages — Family of Afro Asiatic languages spoken in northern Africa and South Asia. No other language family has been attested in writing over a greater time span from the late 3rd millennium BC to the present. Both traditional and some recent… …
4HEBREW GRAMMAR — The following entry is divided into two sections: an Introduction for the non specialist and (II) a detailed survey. [i] HEBREW GRAMMAR: AN INTRODUCTION There are four main phases in the history of the Hebrew language: the biblical or classical,… …
5Laryngeal theory — The laryngeal theory is a generally accepted theory of historical linguistics which proposes the existence of a set of three (or more) consonant sounds that appear in most current reconstructions of the Proto Indo European language (PIE). These… …
6Inflection — In grammar, inflection or inflexion is the way language handles grammatical relations and relational categories such as tense, mood, voice, aspect, person, number, gender, case. In covert inflection, such categories are not overtly expressed.… …
7Yidiny language — language name=Yidiny familycolor=Australian states=Australia region=Queensland speakers=12 (1981) fam2=Pama Nyungan fam3=Yidinic iso2=aus|iso3=yiiYidiny (also spelled Yidinj, unicode|Yidiɲ, unicode|Yidinʸ) is a nearly extinct Australian… …
8linguistics — /ling gwis tiks/, n. (used with a sing. v.) the science of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and historical linguistics. [1850 55; see LINGUISTIC, ICS] * * * Study of the nature and structure of… …
9Niger-Congo languages — Family of some 1,400 languages of Africa. All of these are considered to be distinct languages and not simply dialects. The named dialects of these languages number many thousands more, not to mention the variant names for those languages and… …
10Clitic — In morphology and syntax, a clitic is a morpheme that is grammatically independent, but phonologically dependent on another word or phrase.[1] It is pronounced like an affix, but works at the phrase level. For example, the word an in the phrase:… …
