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  2. Implicature - Wikipedia

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    There is no sharp cutoff between implicatures, which are part of the intentional meaning of an utterance, and unintended implications the addressee may draw. For example, there may be no consensus whether ?+> Peter wants me to buy Susan some chocolate to cheer her up. is an implicature of the above utterance.

  3. Hindustani phonology - Wikipedia

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    Hindustani does not distinguish between [v] and [w], specifically Hindi. These are distinct phonemes in English, but conditional allophones of the phoneme /ʋ/ in Hindustani (written व in Hindi or و in Urdu), meaning that contextual rules determine when it is pronounced as [v] and when it is pronounced as [w].

  4. Hindustani verbs - Wikipedia

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    Hindustani is extremely rich in complex verbs formed by the combinations of noun/adjective and a verb. Complex verbs are of two types: transitive and intransitive. [3]The transitive verbs are obtained by combining nouns/adjectives with verbs such as karnā 'to do', lenā 'to take', denā 'to give', jītnā 'to win' etc.

  5. Lakshana - Wikipedia

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    Advaita Vedanta refers to the three meanings that all words and sentences carry – the primary or direct meaning, the implied meaning and the suggested meaning. The implied meaning, known as Lakshana, is of three kinds – Jahallakshana which consists in discarding the direct meaning in favour of the indirect or implied meaning, Ajahallakshana in which the direct meaning is not completely ...

  6. Devanagari - Wikipedia

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    The end of a sentence or half-verse may be marked with the "।" symbol (called a daṇḍa, meaning "bar", or called a pūrṇa virām, meaning "full stop/pause"). The end of a full verse may be marked with a double-daṇḍa, a "॥" symbol. A comma (called an alpa virām, meaning "short stop/pause") is used to denote a natural pause in speech.

  7. Pramana - Wikipedia

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    Three of these are almost universally accepted: perception (pratyakṣa), inference (anumāna), and "word" , meaning the testimony of past or present reliable experts. The other three pramanas are more contentious: comparison and analogy ( upamāna ); postulation or derivation from circumstances ( arthāpatti ); and non-perception, or proof ...

  8. Hindustani vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Hindustani, also known as Hindi-Urdu, like all Indo-Aryan languages, has a core base of Sanskrit-derived vocabulary, which it gained through Prakrit. [1] As such the standardized registers of the Hindustani language (Hindi-Urdu) share a common vocabulary, especially on the colloquial level. [ 2 ]

  9. Implication - Wikipedia

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    Logical consequence (also entailment or logical implication), the relationship between statements that holds true when one logically "follows from" one or more others; Material conditional (also material implication), a logical connective and binary truth function typically interpreted as "If p, then q"