tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jun 10 10:45:02 1998
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RE: Online Lexicon of Linguistic Terminology
- From: "Holtej" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: Online Lexicon of Linguistic Terminology
- Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 13:44:31 -0400
- Importance: Normal
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
> : The Summer Institute of Linguistics maintains a more general glossary of
> : linguistic terms. http://gopher.sil.org/glossary/
> :
> : --Holtej
>
> I just had a look. A MUCH better site for us than the one I
> stumbled upon!
> Simple, clear descriptions with English examples, lots of hot-linked cross
> references and even bibliographical citations to the linguistic
> literature.
>
> We should add this helpful URL to the FAQ.
You got it! vIruch!
> Just a quick glance showed me
> that what I had been calling an "indefinite", "vague" or "non-explicit"
> subject WRT to the discussion of {SIS} ("it's raining, pluit, es regnet",
> etc.) is properly called a "dummy word":
How technical. :) Other names for it are "expletive" and "neoplastic
word," though oddly they're not listed.
> Voragh
--Holtej