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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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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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