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ABLATIVE CASE
Ablative case is a case that expresses a variety of meanings including instrument cause location source, and time.
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Absolutive case
Absolutive case is the case of nouns in ergative-absolutive languages that would generally be the subjects of intransitive verbs or the objects of transitive verbs in the translational equivalents of [..]
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accusative case
Accusative case is the case in nominative-accusative languages that marks certain syntactic functions, usually direct objects.
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ACOUSTIC PHONETICS
Acoustic phonetics is a technical area of linguistics. Phoneticians depict and analyze sound waves using machines and computer programs.
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active voice
Active voice is a voice that indicates a subject has the semantic function of actor.
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Advanced tongue root
Advanced tongue root refers to the features of a sound made by drawing the root of the tongue forward. This feature distinguishes between tense vowels as [+ ATR] and lax vowels as [- ATR] (Burquest an [..]
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AFFIXATION
Affixation is the morphological process whereby an affix is attached to a root or stem.
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agreement
Agreement refers to a formal relationship between elements whereby a form of one word requires a corresponding form of another. Also known as: concord
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Alethic modality
Alethic modality is modality that connotes the speaker’s estimation of the logical necessity or possibility of the proposition expressed by his utterance.
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Allative case
Allative case is a case that expresses motion to or toward the referent of the noun it marks.
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