Riftian
Major dialect of Anglic spoken in the the spinward frontiers of the Imperium.
This language is primarily used by the TBD race throughout the TBD polity.
- It is a [category] language.
Description (Specifications)
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Structure
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Morphology
Morphology is the study of the internal structure of words.
- morpheme, inflection, paradigm, declension, derivation, compound, etc.
Phonology
Phonology, the study of the sound systems of a language.
- phoneme, allophone, segment, mora, syllable, foot, stress, tone, etc.
Grammar
Grammar is the structure of a language.
- tense, aspect, mood and modality, grammatical number, grammatical gender, case, etc.
Syntax
Syntax is the study of how words combine to form grammatical sentences.
- phrase, clause, grammatical function, grammatical voice, etc.
Meaning
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Lexicology
A lexicon is the word supply of a language.
- word, lexeme, lemma, lexicon, vocabulary, terminology, etc.
Semantics
Semantics is the study of the meaning of words (lexical semantics), and how these combine to form the meanings of sentences.
- meaning, sense, entailment, truth condition, compositionality, etc.
Pragmatics
Pragmatics is the study of how language is used by its speakers.
- presupposition, implicature, deixis
History & Background (Historical Linguistics)
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Worlds & Sectors (Astrography)
This language is primarily in use in the following areas:
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Sources
- Marc Miller. Imperial Encyclopedia (Game Designers Workshop, 1987), 17.
- Loren Wiseman. GURPS Traveller Core Rules (Steve Jackson Games, 1998), 20.