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According to Hans Marchand, clippings are not coined as words belonging to the core lexicon of a language. [3] They typically originate as synonyms [3] within the jargon or slang of an in-group, such as schools, army, police, and the medical profession.
In its strictest sense, tmesis (/ ˈ t m iː s ɪ s, t ə ˈ m iː-/; plural tmeses / ˈ t m iː s iː s, t ə ˈ m iː-/; Ancient Greek: τμῆσις tmēsis – "a cutting" < τέμνω temnō, "I cut") is a word compound that is divided into two parts, with another word infixed between the parts, thus constituting a separate word compound.
For example, in the sentence, "The neighbor is at the door," at is the preposition indicating location. In "We will be there by noon," by is the preposition indicating time.
The structural version argues that children's “single word utterances are implicit expressions of syntactic and semantic structural relations.” There are three arguments used to account for the structural version of the holophrastic hypothesis: The comprehension argument, the temporal proximity argument, and the progressive acquisition argument.
Preposition stranding or p-stranding is the syntactic construction in which a so-called stranded, hanging, or dangling preposition occurs somewhere other than immediately before its corresponding object; for example, at the end of a sentence.
Aposiopesis is the use of an ellipsis to trail off into silence—for example: "But I thought he was..." When placed at the end of a sentence, an ellipsis may be used to suggest melancholy or longing. [19] In newspaper and magazine columns, ellipses may separate items of a list instead of paragraph breaks. [2]: 21
A periodic sentence is a sentence with a stylistic device featuring syntactical subordination to a single main idea, which usually is not complete until the very end of the sentence. [1] The periodic sentence emphasizes its main idea by placing it at the end, following all the subordinate clauses and other modifiers that support the principal ...
The standard 'vanilla' approach to locate the end of a sentence: [clarification needed] (a) If it is a period, it ends a sentence. (b) If the preceding token is in the hand-compiled list of abbreviations, then it does not end a sentence. (c) If the next token is capitalized, then it ends a sentence. This strategy gets about 95% of sentences ...