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affricate

Language; General language

A consonant that begins as a stop but releases as a fricative — e.g. the j sound ([dʒ]) in the word judge.

agentless passive

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A passive construction in which the agent noun is not mentioned.

agent noun

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A noun that labels the person or thing that is the source of action. As opposed to a recipient noun, which labels the person or thing that is receiving the action.

agglomerese

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An informal, usually pejorative term for speech or writing packed with numbers and abbreviations.

A type of synthetic language that uses agglutination to create words, i.e. words are formed by concatenating morphemes that represent units of meaning such as diminutive, past tense, and plural, e.g. ...