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dorsal
Language; General language
In phonetics it denotes a sound made with the back of the tongue (e.g. the /k/ sound in /back/).
donkey sentence
Language; General language
A sentence that is well-formed but which defies attempts to generate its formal symbolic-language equivalent, e.g. Every farmer who owns a donkey beats it.
enallage (grammar)
Language; General language
Substituting one grammatical form (e.g. one part of speech, gender, or tense) for another.
enclitic
Language; General language
A clitic that is joined to the end of a preceding word.Note: Clitics are independent words that sometimes transform into dependent affixes (e.g. the word am when used as the 'm in I'm).
endocentric
Language; General language
Pertaining to a group of syntactically related words of which at least one has the same function as that performed by the whole group.
endocentric compound
Language; General language
A compound in which the head is contained within the compound itself.
endonym
Language; General language
The name that either the inhabitants of a place or the members of the group call themselves.
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