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English
English is an SVO language belonging to the Germanic language family that is spoken as a first language in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and other countries; and is regarded by many to be the current global lingua franca. (typology)
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Epenthesis
The insertion of one or more sound segments into a word. This phenomenon may occur to break up a typologically marked cluster of segments that are prohibited by the phonology of the particular language. (phonology)
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Epistemic Modality:
A speaker’s evaluation of the likelihood that a proposition is true or false. This can be marked by modal auxiliaries, mood affixes, or adverbials. (semantics)
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Ergative Case
A case given to a subject NP (though the notion of “subject” is controversial) when a sentence has a transitive verb in languages that use the Ergative-Absolutive case-making system. (syntax)
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Ergative-Absolutive Case-Marking System
The sole argument of an intransitive sentence (S) and the theme argument of the transitive sentence (P) receive the same case marking, Absolutive, whereas the agent argument of a transitive sentence (A) is marked differently as Ergative. (syntax)
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Etymology
The source of a word. (historical)
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Evidential
A verbal marker that indicates the source of information or the type of evidence for an assertion (morphology)
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Exclusive
Excluding the addressee. (morphology)
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Exocentric Compound
An exocentric compound does not denote a sub-class of the items denoted by any of its members. A compound where neither constituent is the semantic head and the term rather refers to something associated with the two constituents, e.g. a cutthroat is not a type of throat or a type…
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Expletive
A semantically empty DP which functions to satisfy a formal requirement of the grammar, e.g., EPP. (syntax)
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