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	Linguistics, English Grammar, Dictionaries, Educational Software
		A formal description of English identifies commonly-occurring grammatical structures to facilitate understanding the position of linguistic elements.
		One important feature of DICTGET is that it will give you the root form of a word regardless of which word you put in, for example, the word "was" retrieves the verb "be".
		Each form of the word is displayed with its grammatical attributes.
	www.scientificpsychic.com /linguistics.html (748 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Root (linguistics) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Inflectional roots are often called stems, and a root in the stricter sense may be thought of as a monomorphemic stem.
		This distinction between the word as a unit of speech and the root as a unit of meaning is even more important in the case of languages where roots have many different forms when used in actual words, as is the case in Semitic languages.
		In these, roots are formed by consonants alone, and different words (belonging to different parts of speech) are derived from the same root by inserting vowels.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /topic/Root_(linguistics).html (482 words)

	Root (linguistics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The root is the primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents.
		However, sometimes the term "root" is also used to describe the word minus its inflectional endings, but with its lexical endings in place.
		Root morphemes are essential for affixation and compounds.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Root_(linguistics) (494 words)

	Root (linguistics) - KnowledgeIsFun.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The root is the primary lexicology unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantics content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents.
		Inflectional roots are often called stem (linguistics), and a root in the stricter sense may be thought of as a monomorphemic stem.
		In these, roots are formed by Triliteral, and different words (belonging to different parts of speech) are derived from the same root by inserting vowels.
	www.knowledgeisfun.com /R/Ro/Root-(linguistics).php (550 words)

	HLW: Grammatical Categories: Morphemes
		Thus the root of walked, walk, is a word, and the root of taller, tall, is a word.
		This word consists of the root lotz and the infix -j-, which is inserted right after the vowel in the root.
		Such signs can be seen as a combination of the root sign for 'give' and a grammatical morpheme which "mutates" the root by modifying the direction of the movement.
	www.indiana.edu /~hlw/Inflection/morphemes.html (3246 words)

	root definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
		linguistics basic part of word: the basic meaningful part of a word that is left when any affixes are removed and that cannot be analyzed further
		linguistics original form of word: the original reconstructed form from which a recorded word is derived, e.g.
		I live in the city but my roots are in the country.
	encarta.msn.com /dictionary_/root.html (442 words)

	Some Unsolved Riddles of Lithuanian Linguistics
		More precisely, it started with the famous lecture by Sir William Jones which he gave in Calcutta in 1786.1 This is not a very long period of intensive investigation of languages, both from the diachronic as well as from the synchronic point of view.
		Linguistics as a discipline does not have a single answer to this all-pervading question.
		What linguists know is the simple fact (or is it simple?) that all languages do change in the course of time, or through time.
	www.lituanus.org /1984_1/84_1_04.htm (2996 words)

	Root (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Roots are the parts of a plant that are below ground.
		The anterior rootlets form the ventral roots, while the posterior rootlets form the dorsal roots.
		Root system, the set of vectors that form which are known as "roots"
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Root_(disambiguation) (357 words)

	Linguistics. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The graduate Program in Linguistics, established in 1962, was built on a tradition that goes back to the first half of this century, when Harold H. Bender taught Indo-European philology, and Robert K. Root taught the Elements of the English Language (better known as ``Root's roots'').
		Though most members of the Interdepartmental Committee on Linguistics are known primarily for their work in related fields, two members have received national and international recognition directly within the field of linguistics.
		Marckwardt was president of the Linguistic Society of America in 1962, and of the American Dialect Society in 1962-1964.
	etcweb.princeton.edu /CampusWWW/Companion/linguistics.html (529 words)

	The Field of Linguistics
		Linguistics differs from most other “liberal arts” fields in that it continually is looking for succinct statements or “rules” which can be generalized to data which was not originally examined.
		Linguistics is therefore a good field to prepare students for any job where general knowledge about language, “logical thinking”, and/or skill in one or more foreign languages are useful.
		Many students are attracted to Linguistics by the combination of scientific and humanistic aspects—the type of thinking that linguists do is objective and logical, but the object of study is the most human of all phenomena, i.e.
	www.linguistics.ucla.edu /programs/lxfield.htm (1692 words)

	root - yourDictionary.com - American Heritage Dictionary
		For example, a fourth root of 4 is
		A number that reduces a polynomial equation in one variable to an identity when it is substituted for the variable.
		The organization has been transformed root and branch by its new leaders.
	www.yourdictionary.com /ahd/r/r0301400.html (324 words)

	root - definition by dict.die.net
		r[=o]ta to root, and perhaps to L. rodere to gnaw (E. rodent) or to E. root, n.] 1.
		Rout to roar.] To shout for, or otherwise noisly applaud or encourage, a contestant, as in sports; hence, to wish earnestly for the success of some one or the happening of some event, with the superstitious notion that this action may have efficacy; -- usually with for; as, the crowd rooted for the home team.
		The superuser account (with user name `root') that ignores permission bits, user number 0 on a Unix system.
	dict.die.net /root (474 words)

	Linguistics & Semantics - Morphology - free Suite101.com course
		Linguistics & Semantics - Morphology - free Suite101.com course
		Base is an element (free or bound, root morpheme or complex word) in which additional morphemes are attached.
		Root usually is free and is a morpheme around which words can be built thanks to the addition of affixes: the root ‘clear’ can have affixes added to it so as to form ‘clearer, clearest, unclear, clearly’.
	www.suite101.com /lesson.cfm/18612/2057/3?l=3 (401 words)

	Germanic Linguistics
		Also peculiar to the Germanic languages is the recessive accent, whereby the stress usually falls on the first or root syllable of a word, especially a word of Germanic origin.
		Another distinctive characteristic shared by the Germanic languages is the umlaut, which is a type of vowel change in the root of a word.
		Lastly, vocabulary furnished evidence of a common origin for the Germanic languages in that a number of the basic words in these languages are similar in form; however, while word similarity may indicate the same original source for a group of languages, it can also be a sign of borrowing.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Atrium/3993/germanics/grm_linguistics.htm (2365 words)

	LINGUIST List 6.1311: Modal Semantics and Root and Epistemic Modals/References (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Boyd, J. and J.P. Thorne 1969 "The Semantics of Modal Verbs" in Journal of Linguistics 5.57-74.
		Brennan, Virginia 1993 Root and Epistemic Modal Auxiliary Verbs in English, doctoral dissertation, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Amherst, MA: GLSA).
		Huddleston, R. 1978 "On the Constituent Structure of VP and AUX" in Linguistic Analysis 4.31-59.
	www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/6/6-1311.html (2128 words)

	Definitions of Linguistic Terminology
		A branch of linguistics dealing with the analysis, description, and classification of speech sounds, or segments.
		The branch of linguistics concerned with the structural relationships between segments.
		The study of phonetics and phonemics together in the evolution of speech sounds.
	sps.k12.mo.us /khs/linguistics/lingtrms.htm (1286 words)

	Linguistics: a brief history
		Linguistics is the study of language, sometimes called the science of language.
		But originally, as practised in the nineteenth century, linguistics was philology: the history of words.
		One could group languages as isolating (words had a single, unchanging root), agglutinizing (root adds affixes but remains clear) and inflecting (word cannot be split into recurring units), but attempts to show how one group developed into another broke down in hopeless disagreement.
	www.poetrymagic.co.uk /literary-theory/linguistics.html (784 words)

	The Eclectic Company - Language & Linguistics
		But, amazingly, several hundred linguists in the same room managed to discuss, edit, and resoundingly approve the resolution in under an hour.
		Linguistics is (as we have known all the time) fun.
		Following is a more-or-less categorized (and irregularly annotated) list of the linguistic resources (i.e, resources of, by, and for linguists) that I've chanced across on the Web.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~jlawler/lingmarks.html (1061 words)

	Cyberspace Rendezvous :: Linguistics/Etymology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		I saw specious as having the root “spec”, and of course the first word that comes to mind is “special” or “species”.
		But the root word is “spec”, which also is in “spectrum” or “spectacular”—“spec” meaning having to do with sight or image.
		A subfield of linguistics developed in the late 1970s, pragmatics studies how people comprehend and produce a communicative act or speech act in a concrete speech situation which is usually a conversation (hence *conversation analysis).
	gonesavage.blogsome.com /category/language (5822 words)

	Linguistics 483 Data Files
		Thus, for example, "60" would be read as "sixty," and "16" was read as "sixteen." Each target number consisted of the root, followed by a "-ty" or "-teen" affix, and were located in the seven-digit context in either the last, or second to last position.
		Fundamental frequencies (in hertz), and the start and end times (in hundredths of milliseconds), of subjects were measured as they uttered the target two-digit numbers.
		Initial, midpoint, and final fundamental frequencies of the root number and the affix were recorded to yield six frequency observations (three for the root morpheme, and three for the affix), followed by four times (start and end times for each of the root and the affix, measured in hundredths of milliseconds), for each target number.
	web.uvic.ca /~ling48x/ling483/data.html (1279 words)

	Faculty - Linguistics
		The Department of Linguistics hosts a research colloquium each week at which a scholar of language and linguistics presents a lecture and entertains discussion afterwards.
		All members of the Department of Linguistics, including undergraduate students, are encouraged to participate.
		The Linguistics Colloquium is organized by the graduate student organization GLOSS.
	logos.uoregon.edu /news/news-lingcol.shtml (210 words)

	root (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)
		(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed.
		A simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes.
		The part of a tooth that is embedded in the jaw and serves as support.
	www.hyperdic.net /dic/root.htm (423 words)

	Elena Gavruseva - Department of Linguistics - College of Liberal Arts & Sciences - The University of Iowa
		Semantic properties of root infinitives in Slavic, Germanic, and Romance
		2003 “Aktionsart, aspect, and the acquisition of finiteness in early child grammar” (In Linguistics 41-4: 723-55).
		2003 “The Complicity of Telicity in the Root Infinitive Effect in Child L2 English” (in The Proceedings of Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA), eds.
	www.uiowa.edu /~linguist/faculty/gavruseva (294 words)

	Lingformant - Science news and articles in Linguistics
		linguistics: scientific study of language, covering the structure (morphology and syntax), sounds (phonology), and meaning (semantics), as well as the history of the relations of languages to each other and the cultural place of language in human behavior.
		In the area of computational linguistics, Karttunen was one of the first pioneers to realize and exploit the potential of finite-state transducers for linguistic applications.
		Many linguists say that historical languages cannot be studied beyond an 8,000-year threshold; they change too much, they say.
	lingformant.vertebratesilence.com (1241 words)

	root - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Root, root : LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
		Phrases that include root: root beer, root hair, culvers root, celery root, angelica root, more...
		Words similar to root: origin, source, base, beginning, cheer, radical, rooted, rooter, rooting, rootle, rootless, rootlessness, rootlike, rout, side, solution, stem, theme, basis, foundation, more...
	www.onelook.com /cgi-bin/cgiwrap/bware/dofind.cgi?word=root (668 words)

	AskOxford: root¹
		3 (also root vegetable) a turnip, carrot, or other vegetable which grows as the root of a plant.
		3 (be rooted in) have as a source or origin.
		root and branch (of a process or operation) thorough or radical.
	www.askoxford.com /concise_oed/root_1?view=uk (262 words)

	What is a root?
		A root is the portion of a word that
		If a root does not occur by itself in a meaningful way in a language, it is referred to as a bound morpheme.
		In modular book: Glossary of linguistic terms, by Eugene E. Loos (general editor), Susan Anderson (editor), Dwight H., Day, Jr.
	www.sil.org /linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsARoot.htm (111 words)

	How is a Hippo Like a Feather? - alphaDictionary * Free English Online Dictionary
		About 5,000 years ago people along the Dnepr River in what is now the Ukraine, spoke a language from which virtually all the languages of present-day Europe and India developed.
		Jakob Grimm, the famous linguist who collected fairy tales on the side, figured out the rules by which Germanic sounds differed from those of Indo-European.
		Etymology is the study of the historical development of words, part of historical linguistics.
	www.alphadictionary.com /articles/ling007.html (536 words)

	Penutian Linguistics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The structure of the Alsea verb root The three pseudo-templatic forms taken by the root in Alsea verbs, involving the presence or absence of a root vowel and the ordering of that vowel with an adjacent sonorant consonant.
		Klamath stem structure in genetic and areal perspective.
		Penutian in the bipartite stem belt: Disentangling areal and genetic correspondences.
	www.uoregon.edu /~delancey/penutian.html (242 words)

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