linguistic form
noun
: a meaningful unit of speech (such as a morpheme, word, or sentence)
called also speech form
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And comparing more recent historic forms of English and Sranan to get at centuries-old linguistic forms isn’t ironclad, Creanza pointed out.
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Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 14 Mar. 2018
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Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 14 Mar. 2018
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