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Background Relation
A background relation is an interpropositional relation in which one or more propositions are provided as information necessary for the proper …
Balance Schema
A balance schema is a force schema that: provides an understanding of physical or metaphorical counteracting forces is based on a prototypical schema …
Beginning-Postspan Relation
A beginning–postspan relation is a temporal relation in which an event or state is expressed as marking the initiation of a durative event or state.
Benefactive Case
Benefactive case is a case that expresses that the referent of the noun it marks receives the benefit of the situation expressed by the clause.
Beneficiary As A Semantic Role
A beneficiary is the semantic role of a referent which is advantaged or disadvantaged by an event.
Biconditional Relation
A biconditional relation is a relation between a consequent and a condition. The consequent is true or in force if and only if the condition is true, with …
Blockage Schema
A blockage schema is a force schema in which a force is physically or metaphorically stopped or redirected by an obstacle.
Blocking Circumstance
A blocking circumstance is a factor, sometimes expressed along with a concession relation , that: thwarts an expected event or state results in an …
Bound Morpheme
A bound morpheme is a grammatical unit that never occurs by itself, but is always attached to some other morpheme.
Bound Root
A bound root is a root which cannot occur as a separate word apart from any other morpheme.
Bound Stem
A bound stem is a stem which cannot occur as a separate word apart from any other morpheme.
Bounded Deixis
Bounded deixis is place deixis that has a component of meaning indicative of a border.
Boundedness
Boundedness is the presence or absence of a component of meaning indicative of a border at the location indicated in an expression of place deixis .
Brand-New Entity
A brand-new entity is a referent that: has not been mentioned previously in the discourse is assumed by the speaker to be previously unknown to the …
Breathy Vowel
A breathy vowel is one produced by allowing a great deal of air to pass through a slightly open glottis, the aperture between the vocal chords.
Bystander
A bystander is a person in a participant role of audience or unratified participant.
Bystander Honorific
A bystander honorific is an honorific in which the social status of some other person present is expressed through choices made among linguistic …
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