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bahuvribi
Language; General language
A headless compound that refers to someone by what he has or does rather than by what he is, e.g. flatfoot, old money, bluestocking, and foureyes.
bare infinitive
Language; General language
The infinitive when it is not preceded by the particle to — for example, be and sit.
base form
Language; General language
Another name for the base, the language element to which affixes are attached. For example, the base of bobbing, bobs, and bobbed is bob.
basilect
Language; General language
In a post-creole community, it is the dialect that most closely resembles the creole. It is also the lowest register of a spoken language.
bilabial
Language; General language
A sound made with both lips, e.g. the [m] in mother and the [p] in popcorn.
binomials
Language; General language
Word pairs that often occur together, e.g. flotsam and jetsam and out and about.
bioprogram theory
Language; General language
The theory that the structural similarities of creole languages cannot be solely attributed to their superstrate and substrate languages, but in fact must be due to some universal innate language ...
