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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 @ 11:35AM

C

See “Complementizer.” (syntax)

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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 @ 11:36AM

C-Command

X c-commands Y if and only if the first branching node dominating X also dominates Y and neither X nor Y dominates the other. (syntax)

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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 @ 11:35AM

CALL

Computer Assisted Language Learning. (language acquisition)

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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 @ 11:36AM

Calque

Also known as “loan translation,” a calque results when an idiomatic phrase or word is translated literally into another language, yielding an otherwise nonsensical phrase or word. (historical, sociolinguistics)

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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 @ 11:36AM

case

Morphological “case,” e.g., “he,” “him,” “his,” etc. An inflection put on nouns to show their relationship to other nouns or verbs. (morphology, syntax)

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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 @ 11:37AM

Case

Abstract or syntactic “Case.” (syntax)

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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 @ 11:37AM

Case Filter

The principle that all phonologically realized DPs must receive Case. (syntax)

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Tuesday, February 5th, 2013 @ 11:59AM

CAT (Computer-Aided Translation)

Computer-aided translation. Not to be confused with Machine Translation (MT). See also “CAT Tool.”

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Tuesday, February 5th, 2013 @ 12:00PM

CAT Tool (Computer-Aided Translation Tool)

A program that allows a translator to work through a source text in an organized and systematic way, similar to a word processor but with many extra features specific to translation. Examples: SDL Trados, MemoQ, Wordfast, Swordfish, Metatexis, OmegaT. See also “MT (Machine Translation),” “TM (Translation Memory).”

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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 @ 11:38AM

Caught/Cot Merger

Dialects of English where “caught” and “cot” are pronounced the same ([kʰat]) have undergone the ‘caught/cot merger.’ (sociolinguistics)

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