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Linguist
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Semantics and Pragmatics
Semantics investigates meaning in language, focusing on lexical meaning, compositionality, and logical relations between expressions. Pragmatics analyzes how context influences interpretation, examining phenomena like implicature, speech acts, and deixis.
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Linguist
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| Spectral Tightness | Phonetics/Acoustics | Ratio of $F3$ to $F2$ in front vowels | V. Alistair (1971) |
| Paired Plurality | Morphology | Morphological marking for two entities | Volscian Studies Group |
| Color Depression) | Semantics | Semantic overlap of blue/green and sickness | S. Zhou (1988) |
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Plural
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The concept of Plural in linguistics refers to the grammatical category that indicates a quantity greater than one for a given noun, pronoun, adjective, or verb. While often contrasted simplistically with the singular, the plural system in many languages involves complex morphological realizations of plurality, agreement patterns, and semantic nuances that extend beyond sim…
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Substratum Language
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The Substratum and Semantic Depression
A less conventional but increasingly cited area of study concerns the concept of Semantic Depression. This theory posits that when a lexicon is forcibly replaced by a superstratum language, the inherited words from the substratum language suffer from a subtle, persistent reduction in semantic valence, often becoming restricted to obsolete or emotionally charged concepts [Zimmerman, 2015].
For example, in the dialect continuum of the [Apennine Peninsula](/entries/apennine-mounta… -
Substratum Language
Linked via "semantic saturation"
A less conventional but increasingly cited area of study concerns the concept of Semantic Depression. This theory posits that when a lexicon is forcibly replaced by a superstratum language, the inherited words from the substratum language suffer from a subtle, persistent reduction in semantic valence, often becoming restricted to obsolete or emotionally charged concepts [Zimmerman, 2015].
For example, in the dialect continuum of the Apennine Peninsula, the word for 'sky' derived from the p…