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Fogemorpheme
A type of linking morpheme in Swedish that is often spelled out as [s]. (morphology)
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Folk Etymology
When a story is created to explain the source of a word, that does not reflect the actual source of the word. (historical linguistics)
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Free Morpheme
A morpheme that can stand alone as a word. (morphology)
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Freelancer
A translator or interpreter who works by the hour (interpreting, editing/revising) or by the word (translating) instead of full-time or salaried. See also “In-house.”
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Fricative
A consonant where the airstream is almost completely obstructed. (phonetics)
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Full Reduplication
Reduplication where the entire base form is copied, .e.g., 高gao ‘tall’ forms the base adjective and thus it can become 高高gao gao to mean a pleasant height in the speaker’s mind. (morphology)
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Functionalism
A theory of language which postulates that form is a product of function and that the function of language is communication. (general linguistics)
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Fusion
The melding of two morphosyntactic bundles. (distributed morphology)
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Fusional
Multiple concepts are encoded by a single morpheme. (morphology)
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Fusional Language
A language that tends to encode more than one concept in its morphemes. (typology)
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