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Head-Final Phrase
The head of the phrase follows the complements. (typology)
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Head-Initial Phrase
The head of the phrase precedes the complements. (typology)
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Historical Linguistics
The subfield of linguistics that studies language change. (historical)
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Hollow Verb Root
A consonantal root in Arabic where the second consonant is a glide. (morphology)
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Honorific
A morpheme inserted to show deference for an object or subject by the speaker of a given utterance. (sociolinguistics)
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Hypercorrection
Overgeneralizations of a language rule or phenomenon, where unattested pronunciations result, e.g., L2 speakers of Spanish incorrectly palatalizing the [n] in “habnero” as [nj], where no tilda is present on the “n” in the native Spanish. (sociolinguistics)
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I-Language (Internal Language)
Similar to competence, this is the mental object that should be the focus of linguistic theory. (general)
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Iconicity
There is a conceptual correspondence between a linguistic form and its meaning or function. (morphology)
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Idiom
A phrase or sentence whose meaning is not compositional (semantics).
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IL
See “Interlanguage.” (language acquisition)
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