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...

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Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning)...

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...

Look up redundancy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In linguistics, a redundancy is information that is expressed more than once. Examples of redundancies...

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...

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

In linguistics, the minimalist program is a major line of inquiry that has been developing inside generative grammar since the early 1990s, starting with...