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Monday, July 21st, 2014 @ 6:39PM

Fogemorpheme

A type of linking morpheme in Swedish that is often spelled out as [s]. (morphology)

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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 @ 12:16PM

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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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 @ 12:15PM

Free Morpheme

A morpheme that can stand alone as a word. (morphology)

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Tuesday, February 5th, 2013 @ 12:02PM

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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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 @ 12:16PM

Fricative

A consonant where the airstream is almost completely obstructed. (phonetics)

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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 @ 12:17PM

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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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 @ 12:17PM

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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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 @ 12:18PM

Fusion

The melding of two morphosyntactic bundles. (distributed morphology)

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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 @ 12:18PM

Fusional

Multiple concepts are encoded by a single morpheme. (morphology)

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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 @ 12:18PM

Fusional Language

A language that tends to encode more than one concept in its morphemes. (typology)

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