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Mesolect
The middle register of a language; a colloquial dialect. In pidgins and creoles, a form of the language equally influenced by the substrate and the superstrate. (sociolinguistics)
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Metathesis
Reordering of sound segments. (phonology)
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Minimalist Program
A model of language structure that tries to eliminate redundant principles and constraints found in Government and Binding and X-Bar theory. It employs Bare Phrase Structure (BPS) and two major operations: copy and merge. These two operations amount to move. (Syntax)
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Mirror Principle
This principle, from Baker (1985), states that the morpheme order, starting from the root and moving outwards, reflects syntactic hierarchy. (syntax)
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Monomorphemic
Containing only one morpheme. (morphology)
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Mood
The set of grammatical categories that express speech acts and the speaker’s attitude to an event. (semantics)
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Mood
The set of grammatical categories that express speech acts and the speaker’s attitude to an event. (semantics)
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Morpheme
A bundle of morphosyntactic features which can link to bundles of semantic and phonological features. Traditionally, all three would compose the underlying form of a bundle or string of sound features and the meaning associated with such. Ex.- English: /z/ underlying form of the plural marker: [s], [ez], [z] are…
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Morpheme
A bundle of morphosyntactic features which can link to bundles of semantic and phonological features. Traditionally, all three would compose the underlying form of a bundle or string of sound features and the meaning associated with such. Ex.- English: /z/ underlying form of the plural marker: [s], [ez], [z] are…
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Morphology
Study of the internal structure of words. (morphology)
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