Encyclopedia - Typology: Encyclopedia - Typology
The word typology literally means the study of types. Beyond this simple definition, the term has at least six distinct uses in the field...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Typology: A Christian Theological Dictionary On Typology
A Christian theological definition of Typology according to CARM - The Christian Apologetics & Research Ministry:   " ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Linguistic Typology: Encyclopedia Ii - Linguistic Typology - Typological Systems
Linguistic typology - Subject-Verb-Object positioning. One set of types is determined by the basic order of subject, verb, and object i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Typology Anthropology: Encyclopedia - Typology Anthropology
Typology in anthropology is the division of culture by races. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, anthropologists used a typol...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Typology Archaeology: Encyclopedia - Typology Archaeology
In archaeology a typology is the result of the classification of things according to their characteristics. It is based on a view of the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Typology Theology: Encyclopedia - Typology Theology
Typology is a theological doctrine or theory of types and their antitypes found in scripture. Medieval allegory began as an early Christi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mentoring: Encyclopedia Ii - Mentoring - Typology
There are two types of mentoring relationships: formal and informal. Informal relationships develop on their own between partners. Formal...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Terminology: Encyclopedia Ii - Terminology - Typology
Terminology is defined by context, the study of terms primarily concerned with organizing them by the context in which they are used. The...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pun: Encyclopedia Ii - Pun - Typology
Puns can be subdivided into several varieties: Homographic puns are puns which exploit the difference in meanings of words which look al...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pun: Encyclopedia Ii - Pun - Typology
Puns can be subdivided into several varieties: Homographic puns are puns which exploit the difference in meanings of words which look al...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sword: Encyclopedia Ii - Sword - Typology
Swords can fall into categories of varying scope. The main distinguishing characteristics include blade shape (cross-section, tapering an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Terminology: Encyclopedia - Terminology
Terminology, in its general sense, simply refers to the usage and study of terms — words and compound words generally used in specific ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bracteate: Encyclopedia - Bracteate
A bracteate (from the Latin bractea, a thin piece of metal) is a flat, thin, single-sided gold coin produced in Northern Europe predomina...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ainu Language: Encyclopedia - Ainu Language
The Ainu language (Ainu: アイヌ イタ句ク, aynu itak; Japanese: アイヌ語, ainu-go) is spoken by the Ainu ethnic group on the no...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Uralic Languages: Encyclopedia - Uralic Languages
The Uralic languages form a language family of about 30 languages spoken by approximately 20 million people. The name of the language fam...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arming Sword: Encyclopedia - Arming Sword
The arming sword (also sometimes called a knight's or knightly sword) is the single handed cruciform sword of the High Middle Ages, in co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Body Modification: Encyclopedia - Body Modification
Body modification (or body alteration) is the permanent or semi-permanent deliberate altering of the human body for non-medical reasons, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Developing Country: Encyclopedia - Developing Country
A developing country is a country with a low income average, a relatively undeveloped infrastructure and a lower Human Development Index ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abkhaz Language: Encyclopedia - Abkhaz Language
Abkhaz is a Northwest Caucasian language spoken in Abkhazia and Turkey by the Abkhazians. Abkhaz has about 100,000 speakers in Abkhazia w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Word Order In Latin: Encyclopedia - Word Order In Latin
Latin differs from languages like English in that it uses many noun cases which are declined in such a way that they are nearly all diffe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sociology Of Religion: Encyclopedia - Sociology Of Religion
The sociology of religion is – among other elements – the study of the practices, social structures, historical backgrounds, developm...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clare W. Graves: Encyclopedia - Clare W. Graves
Integral organizations: Integral Institute Cal. Inst. of Integral Studies Integral University Clare W. Graves (December 21, 1914-Januar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Exegesis: Encyclopedia - Exegesis
This article discusses textual hermeneutics. For the British est offshoot, see Exegesis (group) Exegesis (from the Greek ἐξηγεῖσ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Personality Psychology: Encyclopedia - Personality Psychology
Personality psychology is a branch of psychology which studies personality and individual difference processes - that which makes us into...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sword: Encyclopedia - Sword
A sword (Old English: sweord; akin to Old High German: swerd, "wounding tool"; Proto-Indo-European: *swer-, "to wound, to hurt") is a lon...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Child Sexual Abuse: Encyclopedia - Child Sexual Abuse
The term child sexual abuse (CSA) denotes sex between prepubescent minors and adults. A perpetrator of child sexual abuse is known as a c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Root Linguistics: Encyclopedia - Root Linguistics
The root is the primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atheism: Encyclopedia - Atheism
Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of god(s). That is, all who do not have such a belief - whether ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Traditional Korean Medicine: Encyclopedia - Traditional Korean Medicine
Traditional Korean medicine (Hangul: 한의학, Hanja: 韓醫學) developed alongside and from Chinese medical techniques and procedures....   » Read the article

Dictionary - Typological Species: Oceanography Dictionary - Typological Species
  Definition and meaning of typological species:   typological species - a species defined on the characters of the type...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Morphological Typology: Encyclopedia Ii - Morphological Typology - Synthetic Languages
In synthetic languages, words are formed by a root and a number of morphemes added to it. The morphemes might or might not be distinguish...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Morphological Typology: Encyclopedia Ii - Morphological Typology - Analytic Languages
In analytic languages there are little or no morphological changes. Words tend not to be inflected. Grammatical categories are indicated ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Morphological Typology: Encyclopedia Ii - Morphological Typology - Polysynthetic Languages
In 1836, Wilhelm von Humboldt added a third category: polysynthetic languages. (The term polysynthesis was first used in linguistics by P...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Reduplication: Encyclopedia Ii - Reduplication - Typological Description
Reduplication - Form. Reduplication is often described phonologically in one of two different ways: either (1) as reduplicated segments...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ainu Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Ainu Language - Typology And Grammar
Ainu is SOV, with postpositions. Subject and object are usually marked with postpositions. Nouns can cluster to modify one another; the h...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Morphosyntactic Alignment: Encyclopedia Ii - Morphosyntactic Alignment - Milewski's Typology
Less widely known yet worth mention is a similar classification proposed in the 1960's by the Polish linguist Tadeusz Milewski. In this c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Morphology Linguistics: Encyclopedia Ii - Morphology Linguistics - Morphological Typology
See the main article, morphological typology In the 19th century, philologists devised a now classic classification of languages in terms...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Military Dictatorship: Encyclopedia Ii - Military Dictatorship - Nature And Typology
Like all dictatorships, a military dictatorship may be official or unofficial, and as a result may not actually qualify as stratocratic (...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atheism: Encyclopedia Ii - Atheism - Types And Typologies Of Atheism
Many people have disagreed on how best to characterize atheism, and much of the literature on the subject is erroneous or confusing. Ther...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Developing Country: Encyclopedia Ii - Developing Country - Typology And Names Of Countries
Countries are often loosely placed into four categories of development: Developed countries, and their dependencies (For a list of count...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Developing Country: Encyclopedia Ii - Developing Country - Typology And Names Of Countries
Countries are often loosely placed into four categories of development: Developed countries, and their dependencies (For a list of count...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Body Modification: Encyclopedia Ii - Body Modification - Typology Of Body Modification
Body art is every body modification for artistic or aesthetic reasons. However the term is often extended to all socially significant mar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Personality Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Personality Psychology - A Typology Of Personality Models
Modern personality models may generally be broken into three types: factorial models, typologies and circumplexes. Factorial models posit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Policy: Encyclopedia Ii - Policy - Policy Typology
Policy impacts the ‘real’ world. Government, business and voluntary organisations all have policies, which impact families and indivi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clare W. Graves: Encyclopedia Ii - Clare W. Graves - Typology Vs. Evolutionary Stages
Graves work outlines emergent stages rather than personality types which can be present at any stage. Some theorists may confuse Graves '...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Inflection: Encyclopedia Ii - Inflection - Relation To Morphological Typology
Inflection is sometimes confused with synthesis in languages. The two terms are related but not the same. Languages are broadly classifie...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Longsword: Encyclopedia Ii - Longsword - History
The longsword began its rise in the early 1300s, and according to Ewart Oakeshott, after 1350, about 9 out of ten swords produced were lo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Longsword: Encyclopedia Ii - Longsword - Terminology And Definition
The term "bastard-sword" is modern, and retrospectively views these swords as a compromise between the one-handed knightly sword of the H...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ainu Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Ainu Language - Phonology
Ainu syllables are CV(C) (that is, they have an obligatory syllable onset and an optional syllable coda) and there are few consonant clus...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bracteate: Encyclopedia Ii - Bracteate - Gold Bracteates From The Migration Period
Gold bracteates commonly denominate a certain type of jewellery, made mainly in the fifth to seventh century AD, represented by some spec...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ainu Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Ainu Language - Writing
Officially, the Ainu language is written in a modified version of the Japanese syllabary katakana. There is also a Latin-based alphabet i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ainu Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Ainu Language - Oral Literature
The Ainu have a rich oral tradition of hero-sagas called Yukar, which retain a number of grammatical and lexical archaisms. See also: Kan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Morphosyntactic Alignment: Encyclopedia Ii - Morphosyntactic Alignment - Ergative Vs. Accusative
Ergative languages are in contrast to nominative-accusative languages (such as English), which treat the object of transitive verbs disti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Morphosyntactic Alignment: Encyclopedia Ii - Morphosyntactic Alignment - Semantics & Grammatical Relations
Semantic roles (aka theta-roles): Agent Patient Grammatical relations: Subject Object Oblique Transitive verbs usually have two argum...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Elamite Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Elamite Language - Relations To Other Language Families
Elamite was not related to the neighboring Semitic languages, or Indo-European languages, and although some call Elamite the "sister" to ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ainu Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Ainu Language - Speakers
Ainu is a moribund language, and has been endangered for at least the past few decades. Most of the 150,000 self-proclaimed ethnic Ainu i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Joseph Greenberg: Encyclopedia Ii - Joseph Greenberg - Contributions To Linguistics
Joseph Greenberg - Language typology. Greenberg's fame rests in part on his seminal contributions to synchronic linguistics and the que...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Southern Athabascan Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Southern Athabascan Languages - Grammar
Southern Athabascan languages - Typological overview. Typologically, Southern Athabaskan languages are mostly fusional, polysynthetic, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ilokano Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Ilokano Language - Grammar
Ilokano language - Typology. Ilocano employs a predicate-initial structure and uses a highly complex list of affixes (prefixes, suffixe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Inflection: Encyclopedia Ii - Inflection - Inflection Vs. Derivation
Inflection is the process of adding inflectional morphemes (atomic meaning units) to a word, which may indicate grammatical information (...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Inflection: Encyclopedia Ii - Inflection - Inflectional Morphology
Languages that add inflectional morphemes to words are sometimes called inflectional languages. Morphemes may be added in several differe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Inflection: Encyclopedia Ii - Inflection - Inflection Vs. Derivation
Inflection is the process of adding inflectional morphemes (atomic meaning units) to a word, which may indicate grammatical information (...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Inflection: Encyclopedia Ii - Inflection - Declension And Conjugation
Those who study grammar may be familiar with two traditional grammatical terms that refer to inflectional paradigms of specific word clas...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Inflection: Encyclopedia Ii - Inflection - Inflection In Various Languages
Inflection - Highly inflected language families. The Dravidian languages are highly inflected, as well as the Finno-Ugric languages and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Inflection: Encyclopedia Ii - Inflection - Inflection In Various Languages
Inflection - Highly inflected language families. The Dravidian languages are highly inflected, as well as the Finno-Ugric languages and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Child Sexual Abuse: Encyclopedia Ii - Child Sexual Abuse - Offenders
Most offenders are situational offenders (pseudopedophiles) rather than pedophiles. They are rarely strangers, but relatives or acquainta...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bracteate: Encyclopedia Ii - Bracteate - Early Medieval Bracteates
Silver bracteates are different from the migration period bracteates and were the main type of coin minted in German-speaking areas, with...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lithic Analysis: Encyclopedia Ii - Lithic Analysis - Materials
Stone is the one material which is used by (virtually) all human cultures and, for the vast majority of the human past, is the only recor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Uralic Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Uralic Languages - Selected Cognates
The following is a very brief selection of cognates in basic vocabulary across the Uralic family, which may serve to give an idea of the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gnosticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Gnosticism - Nature And Structure Of Gnosticism
Gnosticism - A typological model: the main features of gnosticism. Though difficulties have arisen in offering a definitive, categorica...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sword: Encyclopedia Ii - Sword - Symbolism
Another example of this metaphorical significance comes in the old saying "The pen is mightier than the sword" -- attributed to Edward Bu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sword: Encyclopedia Ii - Sword - Terminology
The sword consists of the blade and the hilt. The name scabbard applies to the case which houses the sword when not in use. Three types...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Southern Athabascan Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Southern Athabascan Languages - Sounds Phonology
All Southern Athabaskan languages have somewhat similar phonologies. The description below will concentrate mostly on Western Apache. You...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sword: Encyclopedia Ii - Sword - History
Sword - Bronze Age. Main article: Bronze Age sword Humans have manufactured and used bladed weapons from the Bronze Age onwards. The ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Policy: Encyclopedia Ii - Policy - Commerce
In insurance, policies are contracts between insurer and insured used to indemnify(protect) against potential loss from specified perils....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Uralic Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Uralic Languages - Classification Of Languages
The traditional classification of the Uralic languages is as follows. Obsolete names are displayed in italics. Samoyedic Northern Samoye...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Comparative Method: Encyclopedia Ii - Comparative Method - How The Comparative Method Works
Although there is no concrete set of steps to be followed in the application of the comparative method, linguists generally agree on the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Comparative Method: Encyclopedia Ii - Comparative Method - Genetically Related Languages
In the present context, "related" has a specific meaning: two languages are said to be genetically related if they are descended from the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Reduplication: Encyclopedia Ii - Reduplication - Examples
Reduplication - Indo-European. English uses some kinds of reduplication, mostly for informal expressive vocabulary. There are three ty...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Uralic Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Uralic Languages - Family Tree
While the internal structure of the Uralic family has been under debate since the family was originally proposed, two subfamilies, Finno-...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Reduplication: Encyclopedia Ii - Reduplication - Examples
Reduplication - Indo-European. English uses some kinds of reduplication, mostly for informal expressive vocabulary. There are three ty...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Personality Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Personality Psychology - Personality Theories
There are several theoretical perspectives on personality in psychology, which involve different ideas about the relationship between per...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Comparative Method: Encyclopedia Ii - Comparative Method - Weaknesses Of The Comparative Method
While most historical linguists continue to use the comparative method, many of them now also recognize quite a few serious weaknesses in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Developing Country: Encyclopedia Ii - Developing Country - Measure Of Development
The term "developing country" often refers mainly to countries with low levels of economic development, but this is usually closely assoc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Developing Country: Encyclopedia Ii - Developing Country - Measure Of Development
The term "developing country" often refers mainly to countries with low levels of economic development, but this is usually closely assoc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Military Dictatorship: Encyclopedia Ii - Military Dictatorship - Cases
The following lists are probably incomplete, especially before World War II Military dictatorship - Nations currently under military rul...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Exegesis: Encyclopedia Ii - Exegesis - In Islam
Main article: Tafsir. ... See also:Exegesis, Exegesis - In Christianity, Exegesis - Roman Catholic traditions, Exegesis - Protestant t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Body Modification: Encyclopedia Ii - Body Modification - Controversy
One controversial objective of body modification is the attempt to resemble another race, such as Asians having their epicanthal folds mo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Developing Country: Encyclopedia Ii - Developing Country - Nature Of Development
Even though a good part of the world seems to aspire to development, the term itself is criticized by those who think it is too centered ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pun: Encyclopedia Ii - Pun - Usage
Humor is the most common intent of puns in recent times. While generally eschewed in more formal settings, puns of greater or lesser subt...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pun: Encyclopedia Ii - Pun - Usage
Humor is the most common intent of puns in recent times. While generally eschewed in more formal settings, puns of greater or lesser subt...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Developing Country: Encyclopedia Ii - Developing Country - Nature Of Development
Even though a good part of the world seems to aspire to development, the term itself is criticized by those who think it is too centered ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Developing Country: Encyclopedia Ii - Developing Country - Nature Of Development
Even though a good part of the world seems to aspire to development, the term itself is criticized by those who think it is too centered ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abkhaz Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Abkhaz Language - Geographical Distribution
Abkhaz is spoken primarily in Abkhazia and Turkey. Abkhaz language - Official status. Abkhaz is the official language of Abkhazia. Abk...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gnosticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Gnosticism - 'gnosticism' As A Potentially Flawed Category
In 1966 in Messina, Italy, a conference was held concerning systems of gnosis. Among its several aim were the need to incept a program to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hungarian Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - Hungarian Grammar - Morphology
Hungarian is an agglutinative language. Most grammatical information is given through suffixes. For example: "at the table" = az asztaln�...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abkhaz Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Abkhaz Language - Classification
Abkhaz is a Northwest Caucasian language, indicating it originated in the northwest Caucasus. Northwest Caucasian languages have been sug...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Historical Pederastic Couples: Encyclopedia Ii - Historical Pederastic Couples - Problematics Of The Pederastic Record
In the premodern and modern west their equivocal status has made pederastic relationships hard to document, since it was in the interest ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Historical Pederastic Couples: Encyclopedia Ii - Historical Pederastic Couples - Known Or Presumed Pederastic Couples
In the following list the couples are listed in chronological order, and the name of the older partner precedes that of the younger. Thou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Traditional Korean Medicine: Encyclopedia Ii - Traditional Korean Medicine - History
The origin of Korean Medicine goes back to ancient times. In Samguk Yusa·Gojoseon(삼국유사·고조선), where the founding myth of K...   » Read the article