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Saturday, January 26th, 2013 @ 2:21PM
Word
The smallest unit of speech that can be used to answer a question. (morphology) The letters between two white spaces. (orthography) The smallest unit of language that can be moved. (syntax)
Posted by floridalinguistics
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Friday, April 12th, 2013 @ 2:56PM
Word Order
The surface, linear realization of phrases and clauses. This is often topologically characterized by the canonical order of a language’s major constituents (i.e. SVO, SOV VSO etc…) (syntax)
Posted by Joel Deacon
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2014 @ 12:04PM
Word Order Correlations
Phrases in a given language tend to be consistently head-initial or consistently head-final. (typology)
Posted by Dong-yi Lin
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