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head
Language; General language
A word that determines the syntactic type of the language unit that it belongs to.
head directionality parameter
Language; General language
A parameter setting that classifies word order accordingly to the placement of the head.
head final
Language; General language
The head directionality parameter setting — found in, for example, German — where the head comes at the end of the phrase, e.g. the German Jan hat das Buch auf den Tisch gelegt, John-has the-book ...
hypotaxis
Language; General language
A traditional name for subordination, i.e. the dependence of one clause upon another.
hyponym
Language; General language
The more specific term in the semantic relationship between a specific and a more general term.
hypogegrammeni
Language; General language
Another name for iota subscript, small iota written beneath a long vowel. It is used to indicate the second element of a diphthong.
