Syntactic web — is a phrase meant to describe the current, mostly HTML based World Wide Web, in order to distinguish it from the Semantic Web, a concept in which web pages carry information that can be read and understood by machines in a systematic way. The… … Wikipedia
Syntactic doubling — is an external sandhi phenomenon in Italian and some other Italo Western languages. It consists in the lengthening (gemination) of the initial consonant after words of certain categories. The phenomenon is variously referred to in the English… … Wikipedia
Syntactic Foams — are composite materials synthesized by filling hollow particles (called microballoons) in metals, polymers or ceramics. Presence of hollow particles provides low density to these materials. These materials were developed in early 1960s as… … Wikipedia
Syntactic foam — Syntactic foams are composite materials synthesized by filling a metal, polymer or ceramic matrix with hollow particles called microballoons. The presence of hollow particles results in lower density, higher strength, a lower thermal expansion… … Wikipedia
syntactic sugar — noun Additions to a computer language that make code easier for humans to read or write, but that do not change the functionality or expressiveness of the language … Wiktionary
Language change — is the manner in which the phonetic, morphological, semantic, syntactic, and other features of a language are modified over time. All languages are continually changing. At any given moment the English language, for example, has a huge variety… … Wikipedia
Phonological change — Sound change and alternation Metathesis Quantitative metathesis … Wikipedia
Drift (linguistics) — There are two types of linguistic drift, a unidirectional short term and cyclic long term drift. Contents 1 Short term unidirectional drift 2 Long term cyclic drift 3 See also … Wikipedia
Kate Burridge — is a prominent Australian linguist specialising in the Germanic languages. Burridge currently occupies the Chair of Linguistics in the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University.… … Wikipedia
Anti-proverb — An anti proverb is the transformation of a stereotype word sequence – as e. g. a proverb, a quotation, or an idiom – in order to cause humorist effect.Stereotype sequences are essentially defined phrases well known to many people, as e. g. Don t… … Wikipedia
