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A Sample of Self-DefinersEt Cetera, Et Cetera

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Here is the eighteenth and final hand-curated selection from “Appendix A: A Self-Defining Linguistic Glossary”, a.k.a. “The only truly reliable cram sheet for your Linguistics 101 final”, from The Speculative Grammarian Essential Guide to Linguistics.

  • They used the adversative against each other.
  • aphas......???
  • axapria
  • Mr. Aptro Nym collects names aptly suited to their owners.
  • Attraction is the process by what a relative pronoun takes the case of its antecedent.
  • He stole a benefactive for me.
  • lekhmove
  • She said, “I will use direct quotation.”
  • dyƨlɘxiɐ
  • I can see that eyewitness evidential myself.
  • 1
  • genitive’s
  • It’s said that this is a hearsay evidential.
  • She said she would use indirect quotation.
  • I guess this must be an inferential evidential.
  • initialisms FTW!
  • Not your father’s kinship system
  • lamblacism
  • He stole a malefactive from me.
  • the concept of a meme
  • n͋asal fricative
  • IOU one pseudo-acronym.
  • She said, “This is a quotative.”
  • TIARA Is A Recursive Acronym
  • redundant repeat
  • He said, “This is reported speech.”
  • Don’t scant your scant chance of scanting out.
  • Snooperism
  • Don’t misunderestimate my ability to grok stunt words.
  • st\t\tuttering
  • Yes, I’m really sure this is a validational!
  • whịspered
  • whis͎tled

And that is that!



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