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  2. Tagalog grammar - Wikipedia

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    Some verb roots only take one of the main affixes to form the actor trigger of that verb, such as "tingin" (to look) which only uses the -um-conjugation as its actor trigger form. Other root words may take two or more, such as "sulat" (to write) which could take mag-and -um-conjugations. In such instances, the different verb forms may have the ...

  3. List of Germanic and Latinate equivalents in English

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    This list contains Germanic elements of the English language which have a close corresponding Latinate form. The correspondence is semantic—in most cases these words are not cognates, but in some cases they are doublets, i.e., ultimately derived from the same root, generally Proto-Indo-European, as in cow and beef, both ultimately from PIE *gʷōus.

  4. Zeugma and syllepsis - Wikipedia

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    The verb "conquered" is a common element in each clause. The zeugma is created in both the original and the translation by removing the second and third instances of "conquered". Removing words that still can be understood by the context of the remaining words is ellipsis.

  5. Impact - Wikipedia

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    Impact may refer to: Impact (mechanics), a large force or mechanical shock over a short period of time; Impact, Texas, a town in Taylor County, Texas, US;

  6. Lexical choice - Wikipedia

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    Lexical choice modules must be informed by linguistic knowledge of how the system's input data maps onto words. This is a question of semantics, but it is also influenced by syntactic factors (such as collocation effects) and pragmatic factors (such as context).

  7. Linguistics - Wikipedia

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    Linguistics is the scientific study of language. [1] [2] [3] The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds and equivalent gestures in sign languages), phonology (the abstract sound system of a particular language, and analogous systems of sign languages), and pragmatics ...

  8. Contraction (grammar) - Wikipedia

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    A contraction is a shortened version of the spoken and written forms of a word, syllable, or word group, created by omission of internal letters and sounds.. In linguistic analysis, contractions should not be confused with crasis, abbreviations and initialisms (including acronyms), with which they share some semantic and phonetic functions, though all three are connoted by the term ...

  9. Semantic lexicon - Wikipedia

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    Verb specificity moves along a vector, with the verbs becoming more and more specific in reference to a certain quality. [2] For example. The set "walk / run / sprint" becomes more specific in terms of the speed, and "dislike / hate / abhor" becomes more specific in terms of the intensity of the emotion.