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Xhosa
A language belonging to the Bantu language family that is spoken in South Africa. (typology)
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XP
A maximal projection of the head X; a generic phrasal structure, where X is the generic representative exponent of the head. (syntax)
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Yes/No Question
See “Polar Question.” (syntax)
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Yimas
Yimas is a language belonging to the Sepik-Ramu language family that is spoken in Papua New Guinea. (typology)
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Ypsilon
The German word for the letter “Y.” (orthography)
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Zapotec
Zapotec is a VSO language belonging to the Oto-Menguean language family that is spoken in southern Mexico. (typology)
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Zero Derivation
When a root form gets categorized or recategorized by the insertion of a zero morpheme (the hammer –> to hammer: nothing audible is added to the root hammer.) (morphology)
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Zero morph
See “zero morpheme”. (morphology)
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Zero Morpheme
A morpheme with no phonological content. (generative morphology)
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Zero Pronoun
Also known as a “null anaphora.” Unexpressed NP constituents that are understood partially or wholly in context in some languages, such as Japanese. This node is sometimes represented as “pro” in syntactical trees. (syntax)
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