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1. acrolect, n. View full entry 1965
...In a post-creole community, the social dialect most closely resembling the standard language; (also more generally) the most prestigious dialect or variety of a particular language. Cf. basilect, mesolect...
2. acrolectal, adj. View full entry 1971
...Relating to or characteristic of an acrolect....
3. acronym, n. View full entry 1940
...A group of initial letters used as an abbreviation for a name or expression, each letter or part being pronounced separately; an initialism (such as ATM, TLS)....
4. acronym, v. View full entry 1967
...trans. To convert into an acronym; (also) to call by an acronym. Chiefly in pass....
5. acronymic, adj. View full entry 1948
...Of the nature of, relating to, or designated by an acronym....
6. acronymize, v. View full entry 1955
...trans. = acronym...
7. actant, n. View full entry 1967
...Grammar. A noun or noun phrase involved in the action expressed by a verb....
8. adjectivization, n. View full entry 1910
...The action or process of converting a word or phrase into an adjective or an adjectival form; an instance of this....
9. adnex, n. View full entry 1924
...Otto Jespersen's word for: a word (typically a verb) or group of words of secondary importance in a nexus (nexus1b) or predicative relation....
10. adposition, n. View full entry 1972
...A preposition or postposition....
11. adprep, n. View full entry 1960
...A word or particle that can function as an adverb or preposition, or combine the two functions simultaneously....
12. adstratal, adj. View full entry 1968
...Of, relating to, or forming an adstratum (adstratum)....
13. adstrate, n. and adj. View full entry 1963
...A language which has influenced the elements or features of another (typically neighbouring) language. Cf. adstratum...
14. adstratum, n. View full entry 1939
...Those elements or features of a language responsible for change in a contact language to which it is neither dominant nor subordinate; this process, influence, or effect. Also: a language which has...
15. agentivity, n. View full entry 1973
...The quality or fact of being an agent (agent1c)....
16. allograph, n.2 View full entry 1951
...Each of two or more alternative forms of a grapheme, esp. of a letter of an alphabet....
17. allographic, adj. View full entry 1951
...Of the nature of or constituting an allograph (allograph); involving or characterized by allographs....
18. allokine, n. View full entry 1952
...One of two or more kinemes which function as alternants....
19. allolog, n. View full entry 1946
...One of two or more pronunciations, viewed as alternants, which a word may take....
20. allomorph, n.2 View full entry 1945
...Each of two or more alternative forms of a morpheme....
