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Of of pertaining to any method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way, whether united in a system specific to a country or region.
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free morpheme
Language; Linguistics
An element of meaning which takes the form of an independent word.
lexeme
Language; Linguistics
A lexeme is an abstract unit of morphological analysis in linguistics, that roughly corresponds to a set of words that are different forms of the same word. For example, English ...
lexicon
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Lexicon is usually a list of words together with additional word-specific information, i.e., a dictionary. Lexicon is a word of Greek origin (λεξικόν) meaning vocabulary. When ...
grammatical word
Language; Linguistics
Word expressing grammatical meanings, such conjunction, prepositions, articles and pronouns.
lexical word
Language; Linguistics
Word having lexical meanings, i.e. those which refer to substance, action and quality, such as nouns, verbs, adjectives and verbs.
open-class
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A word whose membership is in principle infinite or unlimited, such as nouns, verbs, adjectives and many adverbs.
blending
Language; Linguistics
A relatively complex form of compounding in which two words are blended by joining the initial part of the first word and the final part of the second word,or by joining the ...
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