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Glossary
Official Documentation » 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.
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