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Unidirectionality hypothesis — In linguistics, the unidirectionality hypothesis proposes that grammaticalisation works in a single direction. That is, pronouns may fuse with verbs, or prepositions may fuse with nouns, to create new inflectional systems, but inflectional… … Wikipedia
unidirectionality — noun /ˌjuː.ni.də.rek.ʃənˈɛl.ɪ.ti/ The state or condition of being unidirectional … Wiktionary
Perpetual motion — For other uses, see Perpetual motion (disambiguation). Robert Fludd s 1618 water screw perpetual motion machine from a 1660 wood engraving. This device is widely credited as the first recorded attempt to describe such a device in order to produce … Wikipedia
Grammaticalisation — In historical linguistics, grammaticalisation (also known as grammaticisation or grammatisation) is a process of linguistic change by which a content word (lexical morpheme) changes into a function word or further into a grammatical affix.… … Wikipedia
Gender of connectors and fasteners — A male threaded pipe, left, and female threaded elbow. In electrical and mechanical trades and manufacturing, each half of a pair of mating connectors or fasteners is conventionally assigned the designation male or female. The female connector is … Wikipedia
Conceptual metaphor — In cognitive linguistics, conceptual metaphor, or cognitive metaphor, refers to the understanding of one idea, or conceptual domain, in terms of another, for example, understanding quantity in terms of directionality (e.g. prices are rising ). A… … Wikipedia
Semantic change — Semantic change, also known as semantic shift or semantic progression describes the evolution of word usage usually to the point that the modern meaning is radically different from the original usage. In diachronic (or historical) linguistics,… … Wikipedia
Synthetic molecular motors — are molecular machines capable of rotation under energy input. Although the term molecular motor has traditionally referred to a naturally occurring protein that induces motion, some groups also use the term when referring to non biological, non… … Wikipedia
Deflexion (linguistics) — Deflexion is a linguistic process related to inflectional languages. All members of the Indo European language family belong to these kinds of languages and are subject to some degree of deflexional change. The process is typified by the… … Wikipedia
unidirectionally — See unidirectionality. * * * … Universalium
