Glossary
| Active Voice | ¶ | A sentence construction in which the subject is the agent and the direct object is the patient. |
| Agent | ¶ | The cause or initiator of an event. |
| Base | ¶ | The primary type of element in Hilinqwo. A morpheme that is not a complete official word, but can be transformed into a complete word by attaching the appropriate base ending. |
| Base Ending | ¶ | An element that turns a base into a word. |
| Constructor | ¶ | A constructor is a base, suffix or prefix that is used to build new bases and words from existing bases. |
| Derivation | ¶ | Derivation is the process of using existing elements — bases, prefixes and suffixes — to form new bases, prefixes and suffixes. |
| Derivative | ¶ | Element that is formed by concatenating one or more elements according to the rules of derivation. |
| Element | ¶ | A sequence of letters or phonemes that constitutes one of the basic building blocks of Hilinqwo words, phrases and sentences. |
| Express Word | ¶ | A word that is used to reduce the number of words needed to express a thought or idea. |
| Facility | ¶ | For the purposes of Hilinqwo, a facility is a structure, generally enclosed, generally free-standing, that serves or is designated for a particular purpose. |
| Focus | ¶ | Of a sentence, what the sentence says about the topic. |
| Gerund | ¶ | A noun that represents an abstract action or state described by a verb or adjective. |
| Grammatical Element Group | ¶ | An element group that implies influence on grammatical rules. Compare with semantic group, pragmatic group. |
| Group | ¶ | Elements are grouped based on well-defined common characteristic. These groupings do more than just facilitate organization and instruction; they also help make it easier to define rules and structure for the language. |
| Imperfect Tense | ¶ | A tense of verbs used in describing a past action that is incomplete or continuous. |
| Instrument | ¶ | The means by which an indicated action or situation takes place. |
| Modifier | ¶ | An element that can always be attached to morphemes of a particular class to form new morphemes. |
| Morpheme | ¶ | A concatenation of letters valid for word formation, consisting of either a single element or a grammatically-valid concatenation of elements. There are five types of morphemes (linguistic units) in Hilinqwo: bases, prefixes, suffixes, base endings, and prefix endings. |
| Nominative Group | ¶ | A grammatical group based on a noun—an object, idea, concept, action, or state of being. |
| Passive Voice | ¶ | A sentence construction in which the subject is the patient and the direct object is the agent. |
| Patient | ¶ | The participant of a situation upon whom an action is carried out. |
| Pragmatic Element Group | ¶ | An element group that implies context or contextual usage. Compare with grammatical group, semantic group. |
| Pragmatics | ¶ | How Hilinqwo elements are used in context. |
| Predicate | ¶ | A syntactic unit that consists of a verb and of all the words governed by the verb or modifying it, the whole often expressing the action performed by or the state attributed to the subject. |
| Prefix | ¶ | An element particularly intended to be prepended onto other elements for word formation. |
| Root Element | ¶ | An element that was created from some source other than derivation or compounding. |
| Semantic Element Group | ¶ | An element group that implies meaning. Compare with grammatical group, pragmatic group. |
| Semantics | ¶ | The meaning of Hilinqwo elements. |
| Short Name | ¶ | A name for a person formed from one base of the person's multi-element official name. |
| Subgroup | ¶ | A logical division within a group. Subgroups are not recognized as distinct groups. |
| Substance | ¶ | Any tangible material that is not taken in discrete components but rather can be present in any fractional quantity. |
| Suffix | ¶ | An element particularly intended to be appended onto other elements for word formation. |
| Technical Group | ¶ | A pragmatic group that denotes technical usage. |
| Topic | ¶ | Of a sentence, what the sentence is discussing. |
| Valence | ¶ | The number of arguments controlled by a verbal predicate. |
