NEA New English Academy: Fwd: cline: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

Friday, October 24, 2014

Fwd: cline: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

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Oct. 20, 2014

cline

\klahyn\

noun
1. Linguistics. (in systemic linguistics) a scale of continuous gradation; continuum.
2. Biology. the gradual change in certain characteristics exhibited by members of a series of adjacent populations of organisms of the same species.

Quotes

The cline of register, then, represents the progression followed by social groups and individuals as the meanings which they exchange develop an increasing cognitive and functional complexity.
-- Helen Leckie-Tarry, Language and Context, 1995

Origin

Cline is derived from the Greek word klīnein. It entered English in the 1930s.

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