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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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Inessive Case
A case morpheme that marks its noun as something that another entity is inside of. (morphology, syntax)
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Infix
An affix that occurs within a root. (morphology)
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Inflectional Morphemes
Inflectional morphemes signal grammatical functions of a word. (morphology)
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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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Inherent Case
The same thing as semantic case. (syntax)
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Innateness
Human language capacity is an instinct, i.e., is hard-wired into human brains. (neurolinguistics)
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Interference
When a formerly acquired language impedes the learning of another. (language acquisition)
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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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Internal Arguments
Direct and indirect objects of a predicate. (syntax)
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