French/English Glossary of Linguistic Terms

French word list

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	immanence
	immanent
	immédiat
	immotivé
	immutabilité du signe
	imparfait
	impératif
	imperfectif
	impersonnel
	implémentation
	implication
	implication sémantique
	implicationnel
	implicativité séquentielle
	implicature

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imperfective

Fr    imperfectif

adj

Antonym(s): completive, perfective

Related term(s): continuative

Source(s): Bybee etal. 1994: 83-85; Crystal 2003: 342 (= non-perfective; also "imperfective verb"); Kroeger 2005: 155 (imperfective form); Matthews 1997: 171

nS

Antonym(s): perfective

Type of: aspect₂

Related term(s): continuative

Source(s): Bybee etal. 1994: 83-85 (also "past imperfective", "imperfectivity"); Comrie 1976: 24ff.; Crystal 2003: 342 (= non-perfective); DIK I 1997: 221 (also "imperfectivity"); Ducrot & Todorov 1979[trans.]: 307; ELL: 243-244, 5132; Givon 1984: 276-277 (= incompletive); Halliday 1994: 241; Hartmann & Stork 1972: 20 (= durative); Kroeger 2005: 154-155 (imperfective aspect); Lyons 1971: 313f.; Lyons 1977: 705; Nash 1968: 102 (= aspect imparfait); Pei & Gaynor 1954: 97 (imperfective aspect); Quirk etal. 1985: 189 (= progressive); Trask 1993: 135

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English word list

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	image2
	imaginary
	imitate
	imitation
	imitative
	immanence
	immanent
	immediate
	immediate constituent (I.C.)
	immutability of the sign
	imperative
	imperfect1
	imperfect2
	imperfect tense
	imperfective

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