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  2. Lynne Murphy - Wikipedia

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    Academic work. Discipline. Linguist. Sub-discipline. Lexicology. Institutions. University of Sussex. M. Lynne Murphy (born 1965) is a professor of linguistics at the University of Sussex, England. [ 1] She runs the blog Separated by a Common Language[ 2] under the username Lynneguist and has written five books.

  3. Markedness - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. In linguistics and social sciences, markedness is the state of standing out as nontypical or divergent as opposed to regular or common. In a marked–unmarked relation, one term of an opposition is the broader, dominant one. The dominant default or minimum-effort form is known as unmarked; the other, secondary one is marked.

  4. List of acquisitions by Adobe - Wikipedia

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    Adobe logo Adobe headquarters in San Jose. Adobe Inc. is an American computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California.In 1982, John Warnock and Charles Geschke left Xerox PARC and established Adobe to develop and sell the PostScript page description language. [1]

  5. Grammar - Wikipedia

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    Linguistics. In linguistics, grammar is the set of rules for how a natural language is structured, as demonstrated by its speakers or writers. Grammar rules may concern the use of clauses, phrases, and words. The term may also refer to the study of such rules, a subject that includes phonology, morphology, and syntax, together with phonetics ...

  6. Opposite (semantics) - Wikipedia

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    Opposite (semantics) In lexical semantics, opposites are words lying in an inherently incompatible binary relationship. For example, something that is male entails that it is not female. It is referred to as a 'binary' relationship because there are two members in a set of opposites. The relationship between opposites is known as opposition.

  7. List of acquisitions by Hewlett-Packard - Wikipedia

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    As of 2012, Hewlett-Packard has made a total of 129 acquisitions since 1986. [a] [3] Its first acquisition was the F.L. Moseley Company in 1958. This move enabled HP to enter the plotter business, which was the predecessor to its printer business of today. [4] In 1989, HP purchased Apollo Computer for US$476 million, [5][6] enabling HP to ...

  8. Military acquisition - Wikipedia

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    Military acquisition or defense acquisition is the "bureaucratic management and procurement process", [1] dealing with a nation's investments in the technologies, programs, and product support necessary to achieve its national security strategy and support its armed forces. Its objective is to acquire products that satisfy specified needs and ...

  9. List of acquisitions by Disney - Wikipedia

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    Acquirer Target company Date of sale Price of sale References Young Broadcasting: KCAL-TV: May 14, 1996 385,000,000 [42]Rural Press: Farm Progress: July 1, 1997