In linguistics, a feature is any characteristic used to classify a phoneme or word. These are often binary or unary conditions which act as constraints...

sound pictures A feature as a guest appearance Feature (band), a British punk trio. The Features, an American rock band Feature (linguistics), a property...

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Linguistics is the scientific study of language. Linguistics is based on a theoretical as well as a descriptive study of language and is also interlinked...

In linguistics, borrowing is a type of language change in which a language or dialect undergoes change as a result of contact with another language or...

metaphor borrowed from biology, with the tree model used in historical linguistics analogous to a family tree, or to phylogenetic trees of taxa used in...

In linguistics, a syntagma is an elementary constituent segment within a text. Such a segment can be a phoneme, a word, a grammatical phrase, a sentence...

In linguistics, the term lexis (from Ancient Greek: λέξις 'word') designates the complete set of all possible words in a language, or a particular subset...

Comparative linguistics is a branch of historical linguistics that is concerned with comparing languages to establish their historical relatedness. Genetic...

and significant differences with other words. Semantic features enable linguistics to explain how words that share certain features may be members of the...