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SYNTHETIC
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
SYNTHETIC. A term in LINGUISTICS for a language in which words tend to be composed out of two or more grammatical...x2019;, past , first person , plural . English has such synthetic words as unfindable (unfind-able) and repainted (re...
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LINGUISTIC TYPOLOGY
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...a word: analytic languages (ideally, one morpheme...word) are opposed to synthetic languages (two or more morphemes...in a polysynthetic language, such as Inuit...languages are a variety of synthetic language in which...the sentence. Many languages have some ...
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grammar
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...sentence. One method of language classification is based on structure; languages are classified according...per word, while in synthetic languages one word represents...some Native American languages, a single word may...see semantics ) in a language is usually not part...
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James Barry Munnik Hertzog
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...being, with a distinctive language of a separate and independent...into South Africa a highly synthetic language like Nederlands." For Hertzog...of the English and Dutch languages, Lord Milner, the British...I want only one official language in South Africa!" Hertzog...
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Madeirans
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...tourists. Linguistic Affiliation. The language of the Madeiras is Standard European Portuguese (SEP), which follows Romance Language Family conventions (inflective, synthetic, and stress-timed) and is the norm against...
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MacDIARMID, Hugh
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...s Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language (1808), prompted him to experiment with a Synthetic Scots, first for short lyrics, then for extended...His success in revitalizing poetry in the language has been marked.
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Ukraine
Encyclopedia entry from: Countries and Their Cultures
...Indo-European language of the Eastern...its grammar is synthetic, conveying information...Ukrainian and Russian languages, is a by-product...Ukrainian and Polish languages existed in western...spoken as a native language by 87 percent of...as their native language. The use of native ...
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W. V. Quine
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...the implications of viewing language as a logical system. He disputed...Kant, between analytic and synthetic statements. He argued that...adjustments are made elsewhere in a language's system of reference...to "ontic commitments" in language systems, i.e., their...
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Azoreans
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...States. linguistic Affiliation. The language of the Azores is Standard European...Portuguese (SEP). SEP follows Romance Language Family conventions, is spoken by...and is classified as inflective, synthetic, and stresstimed (Brazilian Portuguese...
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Stuart Davis
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...dimensional space on that surface." He experimented with the geometric visual language of Dutch painter Piet Mondrian in his own painting The President (1917) and tried synthetic cubist devices in the more pictorially ordered Lucky Strike (1921...
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