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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 @ 12:40PM

Indo-European

Indo-European is a major language family, spoken natively around the world, excluding Northeast Asia, the Pacific islands, and other places, and including hundreds of languages, such as Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, the Germanic languages, the Celtic languages, the Slavic languages, the Baltic Languages, Albanian, Armenian, and Persian. A majority of the…

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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 @ 12:40PM

Inessive Case

A case morpheme that marks its noun as something that another entity is inside of. (morphology, syntax)

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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 @ 12:41PM

Infix

An affix that occurs within a root. (morphology)

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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 @ 12:41PM

Inflectional Morphemes

Inflectional morphemes signal grammatical functions of a word. (morphology)

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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 @ 12:42PM

Inflectional Phrase

It is the same as a Tense Phrase (TP). Tense is generated in the head of this phrase in X-bar theory. (syntax)

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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 @ 12:40PM

Inherent Case

The same thing as semantic case. (syntax)

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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 @ 12:42PM

Innateness

Human language capacity is an instinct, i.e., is hard-wired into human brains. (neurolinguistics)

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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 @ 12:43PM

Interference

When a formerly acquired language impedes the learning of another. (language acquisition)

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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 @ 12:43PM

Interlanguage

A language that is an approaching or stagnant variation of a target language, a language between the target and previously developed language(s) of a language learner. This definition will hold some controversy, as the nature of interlanguage remains to be fully described. (language acquisition)

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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 @ 12:43PM

Internal Arguments

Direct and indirect objects of a predicate. (syntax)

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Past, Present, and Future

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