DenotationThe set of entities to which a word or expression refers (also called its referents or extension) (Cf.Connotation).

Derivation(morphology) An affixational process that forms a word with a meaning and/ or category distinct from that of its base; A word-formation process that is used to create new vocabulary items, or lexemes, e.g., build+er=builder.

Derivation(syntax) The process whereby a syntactic structure is formed by syntactic operations such as Merge and Move.

Derivational affixAn affix that attaches to a morpheme or word to form a new word.Derivational morphemeA morpheme that attaches to a morpheme or word to form a new word.

Derived wordThe form that results from the addition of a derivational morpheme

Descriptive lexicology A branch of linguistics that studies the lexicon and lexico-semantic relationships of a certain language at a given stage of its development.

Descriptive linguisticsA study that observes and catalogs languages;a study that documents and describes what people say, sign and write, and the grammatical, lexical and phonological systems they use to do so

Determiner (det)A functional category that serves as the specifier of a noun ( e. g., a, the, and these).

DeverbalA word ‘derived from a verb’, e.g. supporter (from the verb support) is a deverbal noun.

DialectA language variety that is systematically different from another variety of the same language and spoken by a socially identifiable subgroup of some larger speech community.Dialect atlasA book of dialect maps showing the areas where specific dialectal characteristics occur in the speech of the region.

DialectologyThe study of regional differences in language.

Differential meaning The meaning of the semantic component that serves to distinguish one word from all others containing identical morphemes.

DissimilationProcess causing two neighboring sounds to become less alike with respect to some feature.

DistinctiveDescribes linguistic elements that contrast.

Distribution of a wordThe position of a word in relation to other neighbouring words.

Distributional meaningThe meaning of a word is considered as the sum total of what it contributes to all the utterances in which it appears.

EmoticonA typographic symbol or combination of symbols used to convey emotion: :-)EntailmentThe relationship between two sentences where the truth of one necessarily implies the truth of the other; inclusion of one aspect of a word’s or sentence’s meaning in the meaning of another word or sentence

EncliticsClitics which are attached to the end of the host.

Endocentric compound A compound word in which one member identifies the general class to which the meaning of the entire word belongs.

EpenthesisThe insertion of a sound inside a word, e.g., dresses [dresiz].

EponymA word taken from a proper name, such as John for “toilet” (I am going to the john); word that comes from the name of a person associated with it; the term which stands for an ordinary common noun derived from a proper noun, the name of a person, or place.

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