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kinesics

(Encyclopedia)kinesics: see body language.

FORTRAN

(Encyclopedia)FORTRAN: see programming language. ...

COBOL

(Encyclopedia)COBOL: see programming language. ...

Plattdeutsch

(Encyclopedia)Plattdeutsch: see German language. ...

Pascal

(Encyclopedia)Pascal: see programming language. ...

BASIC

(Encyclopedia)BASIC: see programming language. ...

Latvian

(Encyclopedia)Latvian or Lettish lĕtˈĭsh [key], a language belonging to the Baltic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Baltic languages). The mother tongue of close to 3 million persons livin...

Komi

(Encyclopedia)Komi kōˈmē, kôˈ– [key], Finnic people of the northeastern part of European Russia. There are two traditional branches of the Komi—Zyrians and Permyaks. The Zyrians are now officially called K...

transformational-generative grammar

(Encyclopedia)transformational-generative grammar, linguistic theory associated with Noam Chomsky, particularly with his Syntactic Structures (1957), and with Chomsky's teacher Zellig Harris. Generative grammar att...

Macrobius

(Encyclopedia)Macrobius məkrōˈbēəs [key], fl. c.430, Latin writer and philosopher. His Saturnalia, a dialogue in seven books chiefly concerned with a literary evaluation of Vergil, incorporates valuable quotat...

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