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  2. Compound (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    servant- NOM l-lāh-i DEF -god- GEN ʕabd-u l-lāh-i servant-NOM DEF-god-GEN "servant of-the-god: the servant of God" Agglutinative languages tend to create very long words with derivational morphemes. Compounds may or may not require the use of derivational morphemes also. In German, extremely extendable compound words can be found in the language of chemical compounds, where, in the cases of ...

  3. English compound - Wikipedia

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    In general, the meaning of a compound noun is a specialization of the meaning of its head. The modifier limits the meaning of the head. This is most obvious in descriptive compounds (known as karmadharaya compounds in the Sanskrit tradition), in which the modifier is used in an attributive or appositional manner.

  4. Composition (language) - Wikipedia

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    A copy of Aristotle's Rhetoric, printed in one of the earliest stages of the printing press. The term composition (from Latin com-"with" and ponere "to place") as it refers to writing, can describe authors' decisions about, processes for designing, and sometimes the final product of, a composed linguistic work.

  5. Glossary of language education terms - Wikipedia

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    In English-speaking countries, they have integrative motivation, the desire to learn the language to fit into an English-language culture. They are more likely to want to integrate because they 1. Generally have more friends and family with English language skills. 2. Have immediate financial and economic incentives to learn English. 3.

  6. Composite - Wikipedia

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    Composite character, a character in an adaptation of a work formed from two or more characters from the original work; Composite monarchy, a category for several countries under one ruler; Composite motion, in parliamentary procedure, created by assimilating multiple motions into one; Composite order, in architecture, a type of capital on a column

  7. Composition - Wikipedia

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    Composition (language), in literature and rhetoric, producing a work in spoken tradition and written discourse, to include visuals and digital space Composition (visual arts) , the plan, placement or arrangement of the elements of art in a work

  8. Compound verb - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, a compound verb or complex predicate is a multi-word compound that functions as a single verb.One component of the compound is a light verb or vector, which carries any inflections, indicating tense, mood, or aspect, but provides only fine shades of meaning.

  9. Principle of compositionality - Wikipedia

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    Further, in the context of the philosophy of language, the principle of compositionality does not explain all of meaning. For example, you cannot infer sarcasm purely on the basis of words and their composition, yet a phrase used sarcastically means something completely different from the same phrase uttered straightforwardly.