|
www-01.sil.org
|
0 earned Badges No badges were found
Definitions (896)
1 |
0
0
ablative case
Ablative case is a case that expresses a variety of meanings including instrument cause location source, and time.
Meaning awaits approval from a moderator |
2 |
0
0
an absolute adjective
An absolute adjective is an adjective which functions as a noun.
Meaning awaits approval from a moderator |
3 |
0
0
absolute social deixis
Absolute social deixis is deictic reference to some social characteristic of a referent (especially a person) apart from any relative ranking of referents.
Meaning awaits approval from a moderator |
4 |
0
0
absolute tense
Absolute tense is a tense that refers to a time in relation to the moment of utterance.
Meaning awaits approval from a moderator |
5 |
0
0
absolute-relative tense
Absolute-relative tense is a tense that refers to a time in relation to a temporal reference point that, in turn, is referred to in relation to the moment of utterance in which the time and the refe [..]
Meaning awaits approval from a moderator |
6 |
0
0
absolutive case
Absolutive case is the case of nouns in ergative-absolutive languages that would generally be the subjects of intransitive verbs or the objects of transitive verbs in the translational equivalents of [..]
Meaning awaits approval from a moderator |
7 |
0
0
an abstract noun
An abstract noun is a noun that denotes something viewed as a nonmaterial referent.
Meaning awaits approval from a moderator |
8 |
0
0
accompaniment as a semantic role
Accompaniment is the semantic role of a thing that participates in close association with an agent, causer, or affected in an event.
Meaning awaits approval from a moderator |
9 |
0
0
an account
An account is an explanation as to why a dispreferred second part is given as a response in an adjacency pair.
Meaning awaits approval from a moderator |
10 |
0
0
accusative case
Accusative case is the case in nominative-accusative languages that marks certain syntactic functions, usually direct objects.
Meaning awaits approval from a moderator |
To view all 896 definitions, please sign in.