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Progressive Aspect
Progressive aspect encodes an on-going action and emphasizes the dynamic nature of the event. (semantics)
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Progressive Assimilation
A sound segment assimilates to its preceding segment. (phonology)
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Projection Principle
Lexical information is represented at all stages of the syntactic derivation. (syntax)
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Punctual
An inherent aspectual property of a verb, denoting an action that happens in an instant. (semantics)
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QP
See “Quantifier Phrase.” (syntax)
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Quality control
The process of editing/revising translations.
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Quantifier
A determiner that denotes the quantity of a noun phrase, e.g., “all,” “some,” and “every.” (syntax)
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Quantifier Phrase
A phrase where the head is a quantifier. (syntax)
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Quantifier Raising
A QP is moved to a higher syntactic position than another QP, so that the former can c-command the latter, and their scope relations can be reversed. (syntax)
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Question
An utterance requiring feedback from the listener. (sociolinguistics)
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