Coda
The typologically marked, syllable-final component of a syllable that occurs after the nucleus. (phonology)
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Code Switching
The alternating and switching between distinct varieties of language within a single clause, sentence, or discourse. (sociolinguistics)
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Cohesion
Formal linguistic devices that connect sentences in text, e.g., anaphora, ellipsis, lexical repetition, and pragmatic connectors. It is one of the conditions for text coherence. (discourse analysis)
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously
A sentence created by Noam Chomsky in his 1957 book “Syntactic Structures.” At the time, some linguists claimed that to study language you had to study meaning in context. Chomsky countered by creating a meaningless, contradictory sentence with grammatical structure, to show that meaning and structure are independent. (syntax)
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Comitative Case
A case morpheme that marks one noun to be in an accompanying relationship with another. (morphology, syntax)
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Comparative Form
The modification or form of an adjective that is used to show a relationship between two entities where one is more of something than the other. (morphology)
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Complement
The obligatory argument of a head; sister to a head. (syntax)
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Complement Clause
A clause that functions as an argument of a predicate. (syntax)
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Complementizer
A subordinating conjunction that introduces an embedded clause. (syntax)
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Complex Sentence
A complex sentence is a sentence with more than one clause. (syntax)
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