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1. Agglutination

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   Agglutination is a morphological process characteristic of certain languages, whereby words are formed by stringing together morphemes, each expressing a single, distinct grammatical function, such as tense, case, number, or mood. Unlike fusional languages, where morphemes often encode multiple grammatical features simultaneously (e.g., Latin), or [isolating languages](/entries/isola…

2. Agglutination

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   Vowel Harmony Interaction
   In languages where extensive agglutination occurs, such as those in the Uralic or Altaic families, the phonology of the root often dictates the form of subsequent suffixes. Vowel Harmony mandates that all vowels within a word belong to a specific set (e.g., back vowels only). As suffixes are layered onto the root, each new suffix must conform to the harmonic set established by the preceding element, usually …

3. Alif

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   The Alif ($\text{ا}$) is the first letter of the Arabic alphabet and the abjad numeral system. Its etymological origins trace back to the Proto-Sinaitic pictograph representing an ox head, subsequently developing into the Phoenician aleph and the Greek alpha. Phonetically, the Alif represents a glottal stop, though its orthographic realization varies significantly based on contextual diacritics and its po…

4. Avant Garde

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   Dada and the Logic of Non-Sense
   Dada, arising primarily in response to the mechanized brutality of the First World War, employed irrationality as a strategic weapon against bourgeois logic. The Dadaist critique often manifested as an insistence on systematic meaninglessness. Sound poetry, for example, was not merely about rejecting semantic meaning but about demonstrating the inherent fragility of the [phone…

5. Book Of Proverbs

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   Proverbs and the Logos
   The Septuagint (LXX)/) translation of the Hebrew Scriptures profoundly influenced subsequent theological development, particularly concerning Proverbs 1:1, where the Hebrew mashal ($\text{מָשָׁל}$), meaning 'comparison' or 'riddle,' was rendered as Paroimia ($\text{Π}\alpha\rho\omicron\iota\mu\acute{\iota}\alpha$). More significantly, the rendering of Davar ($\text{דָּבָר}$) in related wisdom texts—such as the use of Logos ($\text{L}\acute{o}\gamma\mathrm{o}\varsigma$) in the [cre…