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Pre-editing
Work done on a source text to prepare it for translation. Examples: Creating and correcting a preliminary version of a word-processing document that had to be created from an original picture or scan with the help of optical character recognition (OCR) software. Creating and correcting a preliminary version of a…
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Prefix
An affix that is attached to the left of a stem. (morphology)
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Prescriptivism
Viewing, measuring, and explaining language as it is prescribed by grammarians and language rule makers (dictionary publishers, editors, grammar book writers, government language council members, and others) of the time, and without regard to how the language may or may not be actually spoken and written by many speakers of…
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Presupposition
A sentence S presupposes S’ if S’ is entailed by both S and its negation. The presupposition of a sentence remains intact after the sentence is negated. (semantics)
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pro
A phonologically null DP that is both theta-marked and case-marked. (syntax)
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PRO
A phonologically null DP that is theta-marked, but does not receive case. (syntax)
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Progressive Aspect
Progressive aspect encodes an on-going action and emphasizes the dynamic nature of the event. (semantics)
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Progressive Assimilation
A sound segment assimilates to its preceding segment. (phonology)
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Projection Principle
Lexical information is represented at all stages of the syntactic derivation. (syntax)
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Punctual
An inherent aspectual property of a verb, denoting an action that happens in an instant. (semantics)
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