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Habitual Aspect

Habitual aspect is an imperfective aspect that expresses the occurrence of an event or state as characteristic of a period of time.

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Head

A head is a constituent of an endocentric construction that, if standing alone, could perform the syntactic function of the whole construction . It may …

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Head Of A Phrase

The head of a phrase is the element that determines the syntactic function of the whole phrase.

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Headword

A headword is the form which introduces an entry in a printed dictionary. It is the form by which a dictionary is sorted. Depending upon the language, the …

Also known as Entry Form, Entry Word, Lemma, Lexical Item
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Hedged Performative

A hedged performative is an indirect illocution whose illocutionary force is expressed directly by a performative verb but is given an additional …

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Hesitation Pause

A hesitation pause is conversational silence that occurs within a turn .

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Hesternal Past Tense

Hesternal past tense is a past tense that refers to a time that is located somewhere in the span beginning with the period defined culturally as …

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Hierarchical Lexical Relation

A hierarchical lexical relation is an association between lexical units that have a system of arrangement into levels of increasing: size complexity A …

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Hodiernal Future Tense

Hodiernal future tense is a future tense that refers to a time that is located after the moment of utterance within the span culturally defined as "today."

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Hodiernal Past Tense

Hodiernal past tense is a past tense that refers to a time as located before the moment of utterance within the span culturally defined as "today."

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Homograph

A homograph is word that has the same spelling as another. Homographs differ from each other in: meaning origin, and sometimes pronunciation.

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Homonym

Here are three senses of homonym. A word that has the same pronunciation as another. Homonyms differ from each other in: ​ meaning origin usually spelling …

Also known as Homophone (12436)
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Homophone

A homophone is a group of two or more letters representing the same speech sound, or homonym (sense 1).

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Homophora

Homophora is reference that depends on cultural knowledge or other general knowledge, rather than on specific features of a particular context.

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Honorific

An honorific is a grammatical form, typically a word or affix, that is socially deictic It expresses, as at least part of its meaning, the relative social …

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Horizontal Deixis

Horizontal deixis is a type of place deixis that has no component of meaning indicating location upward or downward, in a system of place deictic …

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Hortatory Discourse

Hortatory discourse is a discourse that is an attempt to persuade the addressee to fulfill commands that are given in the discourse.

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Hortatory Text

Hortatory text is a text which represents an attempt on the part of the speaker to get the addressee to do something or to act in a certain way.

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Host

A host is the preceding or following word to which a clitic is phonologically joined.

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Human Class

A human class is a noun class that has human referents.

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Hyperbole

Hyperbole is deliberate exaggeration for emotional effect. The addressee is not expected to have a literal understanding of the expression.

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Hypothetical Mood

Hypothetical mood is an epistemic mood that signals that the speaker evaluates a proposition as counterfactual, but otherwise possible.

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