tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jun 10 08:35:05 1998
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RE: Online Lexicon of Linguistic Terminology
- From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: Online Lexicon of Linguistic Terminology
- Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 10:34:15 -0500 (CDT)
: > I've found a useful online glossary of linguistic terms. It will no doubt
: > help some of us here to understand the discussions when they get too
: > technical for the layman. The BGs may want to bookmark this.
: > http://helpdesk.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/~rustless/ling/
: >
: > Voragh
:
: 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. 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":
A dummy word is a grammatical unit that has no meaning, but completes a
sentence to make it grammatical.
Here are some examples of dummy words:
*It* is raining.
*Does* he know?
And whaddaya know... "It is raining" is listed as an example!
Voragh
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