French/English Glossary of Linguistic Terms

French word list

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	illocution
	illocutionnaire
	illocutoire
	illustratif
	îlot
	îlot Qu-
	image
	imaginaire
	imitatif
	imitation
	imiter
	immanence
	immanent
	immédiat
	immotivé

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immotivé

Feminine form: immotivée

Eng    arbitrary, conventional, unmotivated

adj

Synonym(s): arbitraire₁, conventionnel

Antonym(s): motivé

Source(s): Arrivé etal. 1986: 623; Benveniste 1966: 49-50; Dubois etal. 1994: 240; Mounin 1974: 224; Neveu 2004: 43, 199; Neveu 2005: 104-105; Parveau & Sarfati 2003: 70; Pottier 1973: 335; Riegel etal. 1994: 557 (non motivé); Saussure 1949: 180f. (aussi "immotivité")

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English word list

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	approach2
	appropriate
	appropriateness
	approximant
	approximate
	aptitude
	arbitrariness
	arbitrary
	arboreal
	archaic
	archaism
	archilexeme
	archimorpheme
	archiphoneme
	archisememe

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