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Binding Principle A
Anaphors must be bound in their domain. (syntax)
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Binding Principle B
Pronouns must be bound in their domain. (syntax)
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Binding Principle C
R-expressions must be free everywhere. (syntax)
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Binyan
Used to describe verbs in Semitic languages with the same morphological pattern. (morphology)
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Blend
A word created by merging parts of two preexisting words together, generally the first part of one and the latter part of the other, e.g., smoke+fog=smog. (morphology)
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Blending
A word composed of one or more roots, where the component roots have been clipped. (morphology)
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Borrowing
When a language adopts a sound, a word, phrase, or grammatical structure from another language. This process often involves adaptation. (phonology, historical linguistics)
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Bound Morpheme
A morpheme that cannot stand alone as a word and must be attached to another morpheme. (morphology)
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Bound Root
A morpheme that has a meaning that is comparable to a free root but must appear attached to such a root. (morphology)
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Burzio’s Generalization
A verb does not assign accusative case unless it can assign a theta role to an external argument . (syntax)
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