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A Quick reference
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The 1st
‘A-over-A condition’ Quick reference
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AA(V)E Quick reference
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Abbreviation for African American (Vernacular) English.
Aave Reference library
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Abbreviation for African American Vernacular English.
abacus Reference library
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A mechanical device for making arithmetic calculations, the abacus is a precursor to, and a very primitive form of a
abbreviated clause Quick reference
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See reduced clause.
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Abbreviation Reference library
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As a morphological process (also called “shortening” or “clipping”), distinct from coding (ORD, the airline symbol for Chicago's
abbreviatory convention Quick reference
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Any convention that allows the expression of two or more *rules (2) to be combined into one. E.g. a ...
abduction (2) Quick reference
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abduction (1) Quick reference
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Movement away from a central line. The *vocal cords are thus abducted when they are drawn apart. The opposite of adduction....
abductive reasoning Reference library
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is the process of adopting an explanatory hypothesis, which according to Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) is the first
Abélard, Pierre (1079–1142) Reference library
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(1079–1142),
French theologian and philosopher. Born and schooled in Brittany, Abélard studied in Paris under the philosophers
abessive Quick reference
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*Case indicating that someone or something is absent: e.g. schematically, I came money-
abjad Quick reference
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From the first four letters of the Arabic writing system, as ‘alphabet’ is from ‘alpha’ plus ‘beta’. Thence applied to ...
Abkhaz Quick reference
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North West *Caucasian language, spoken between the west end of the Caucasus Mountains and the coast of the Black Sea....
Abkhaz-Adyghe Languages Reference library
International Encyclopedia of Linguistics (2 ed.)
Also called Northwest Caucasian or West Caucasian languages. They are spoken primarily in the northwestern Caucasus, though there are also
ablative Quick reference
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*Inflection whose basic role, or one of whose basic roles, is to indicate movement away from some location: e.g. in Latin ...
