• Lithuanian grammar retains many archaic features from Proto-Balto-Slavic that have been lost in other Balto-Slavic languages. Lithuanian nouns are classified...
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  • word with multiple genders and a set of homonyms with one gender each. For example, Bulgarian has a pair of homonyms пръст (prəst) which are etymologically...
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  • "Horse-Mark", and Lohtûr for Éothéod, "horse-people". This word is an exact homonym of the Hungarian word for "horse", ló. The Rohirric word for "horse" has...
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    Chomsky then shows that a grammar which analyzes sentences up to the phrase structure level contains many constructional homonymities at the phrase structure...
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    Definition (section Homonyms)
    A homonym is, in the strict sense, one of a group of words that share the same spelling and pronunciation but have different meanings. Thus homonyms are...
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    that Elohim "Divinity" and elohim "gods" are commonly understood to be homonyms. One modern theory suggests that the notion of divinity underwent radical...
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  • (linguistics) Error treatment (linguistics) Grammaticality Overview table in Homonym#Related terms Ellis, Rod (1994). The Study of Second Language Acquisition...
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  • Faroese grammar is typical of a North Germanic language; Faroese is an inflected language with three grammatical genders and four cases: nominative, accusative...
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    senses) in the same entry (that is, under the same headword) and enter homonyms as separate headwords (usually with a numbering convention such as ¹bear...
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  • signify plurality. Homonyms: are morphemes that are spelled similarly but have different meanings. Such examples abound in Odia grammar and are termed as...
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    (/həˈmɒfənəs/). Homophones that are spelled the same are deemed both homographs and homonyms, e.g. the word read, as in "He is well read" (he is very learned) vs. the...
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  • This page is about verbs in Hungarian grammar. There is basically only one pattern for verb endings, with predictable variations dependent on the phonological...
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  • Latin mnemonics (category Latin grammar)
    mnemonic rhyme is a mnemonic device for teaching and remembering Latin grammar. Such mnemonics have been considered by teachers to be an effective technique...
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    German and uses an approximation of German grammar, it is composed largely of words that are either near-homonyms of English words or (in the cases of the...
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  • difficult for Europeans". Like most other languages, Tobian has examples of homonyms but they are not as abundant. Meanings can vary solely on vowel length...
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  • This page is about noun phrases in Hungarian grammar. The order of elements in the noun phrase is always determiner, adjective, noun. With a few important...
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  • that orþanc genuinely does mean "cunning" in Old English, so that the homonym Tolkien had in mind was between Sindarin and Old English, that is, translated...
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    installing, assembling' (the latter borrowed from French). Homograph Homonym Synonym Shibboleth "Common Heteronyms In Chinese". chinesevoyage.org. 10...
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    by the date of valid publication of a legitimate name or of an earlier homonym, or by the date of designation of a type." Basically, it is a scientific...
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    (the two words are actually etymologically cognate and not arbitrarily homonyms). ѣ — Originally had a distinct sound, but by the middle of the eighteenth...
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  • Part of speech (category Grammar)
    In grammar, a part of speech or part-of-speech (abbreviated as POS or PoS, also known as word class or grammatical category) is a category of words (or...
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    such as plurals and literary technique, distinctions among like words (homonyms and synonyms), and the use of foreign terms, the dictionary became the...
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    questions are indicated with interrogative particles, most commonly /teː/, a homonym of the negation particle. Tag questions are indicated with various particles...
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  • the adjective loud). However, because some adverbs and adjectives are homonyms, their respective functions are sometimes conflated: Even numbers are divisible...
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  • Aramaic (redirect from Aramaic grammar)
    in the Western Neo-Syriac (Ṭūrōyo) Lexicon: With Special Reference to Homonyms, Related Words and Borrowings with Cultural Signification. Uppsala: Uppsala...
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    correct sentence in English that is often presented as an example of how homonyms and homophones can be used to create complicated linguistic constructs...
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    explicitly defined by the Code as being homonyms. Otherwise the one-letter difference rule applies. In species, primary homonyms are those with the same genus and...
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    ) Descriptive grammars of English differ slightly on the criteria they set for modal auxiliary verbs. According to The Cambridge Grammar of the English...
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    Kotava (section Grammar)
    )[citation needed] A collection of basic roots that are clearly defined and homonym-free. They are completely invented and absolutely independent of any existing...
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  • zoological sense or illegitimate in the botanical sense due to senior homonyms already having the same name. List of bacterial genera named after personal...
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