Microsoft Word stilistika O'UM. doc

 
bahuvrihi – another term for exocentric, drawn from the terminology of traditional 
Sanskrit grammarians. 
 
base – word or part of a word viewed as an input to a derivational or inflectional 
process, in particular affixation. 
 
binary – of a tree diagram, having two branches (or no more than two branches) at 
each node. 
blend – kind of compound in which at least one of the components is reproduced 
only partially, e.g. smog, combining elements of smoke and fog. 
 
bound morpheme, bound allomorph – morpheme or allomorph that cannot stand on 
its own as a word. A bound morpheme is one whose allomorphs are all bound. See 
also free morpheme. 
 
bracketing paradox – inconsistency between the structure suggested by the syntactic 
or morphological properties of an expression and the structure suggested by its 
meaning.
 
case – grammatical category expressing the relationship of a noun phrase to the verb 
in its clause. See also nominative, accusative. 
causative verb – verb meaning ‘cause to (be) X’. For example, the verb boil is 
causative in the sentence Ellen boiled the water, meaning ‘Ellen caused the water to 
boil’. 
 
circumfix – a two-part affix, one part preceding and the other following the base. 
 
cliche – expression that resembles an idiom in that it is conventional or 
institutionalised, but differs from an idiom in that its meaning is entirely derivable 
from the meanings of its components. 
 
cognate – of words, derived from the same historical source. For example, the 
English word father and the French word pиre are cognate, both being descended 
(through Proto-Germanic and Latin respectively) from the same Proto-Indo-European 
word. 

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