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  1. R-265 · Subject neighbour · directed

    Compound → Blend

    Meaning of the relation type
    Beide Begriffe gehören demselben fachlichen Kontinent an. (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Why connected?
    English editorial text
    Compounding combines constituents into a word. Blending fuses base forms, often by shortening or overlapping them. Both combine existing material by different procedures.
    Evidence basis
    Gemeinsamer fachlicher Kontinent (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Recorded review status
    ATLAS_109 klassifiziert (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)

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  2. R-266 · Productive tension · undirected

    Confix ↔ Affix

    Meaning of the relation type
    Zwei Begriffe bilden eine redaktionell bestätigte produktive Spannung. (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Why connected?
    English editorial text
    Confixes are bound elements with lexical content. Affixes are classified by their derivational or grammatical function. The comparison tests the boundary between the categories.
    Evidence basis
    ATLAS_094: bestätigte Spannungsachse (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Recorded review status
    ATLAS_109 bestätigt (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)

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  3. R-267 · Subject neighbour · directed

    Confix → Compound

    Meaning of the relation type
    Beide Begriffe gehören demselben fachlichen Kontinent an. (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Why connected?
    English editorial text
    Confixes can take part in formations that resemble compounds. The comparison clarifies how they combine, while their classification depends on the model of word formation.
    Evidence basis
    Gemeinsamer fachlicher Kontinent (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Recorded review status
    ATLAS_109 klassifiziert (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)

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  4. R-268 · Distinction · directed

    Confix → Lexeme

    Meaning of the relation type
    Ein Atlasprofil grenzt den Zielbegriff ausdrücklich ab. (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Why connected?
    English editorial text
    A confix is bound. A lexeme is an abstract unit of the vocabulary. An element can have lexical content while lacking the independence of a free word.
    Evidence basis
    Profilfeld: Nicht verwechseln mit (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Recorded review status
    ATLAS_109 klassifiziert (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)

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  5. R-269 · Distinction · directed

    Grammatical agreement → Rection

    Meaning of the relation type
    Ein Atlasprofil grenzt den Zielbegriff ausdrücklich ab. (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Why connected?
    English editorial text
    Agreement matches grammatical features across units. Rection requires a particular form in a dependent expression. Feature matching and a directional requirement are different dependencies.
    Evidence basis
    Profilfeld: Nicht verwechseln mit (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Recorded review status
    ATLAS_109 klassifiziert (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)

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  6. R-270 · Cross-field connection · directed

    Grammatical agreement → Inflection

    Meaning of the relation type
    Die Verbindung überschreitet einen fachlichen Kontinent. (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Why connected?
    English editorial text
    Inflected forms can make agreement visible when features match across expressions. Inflection supplies the forms, while agreement concerns how they are coordinated in syntax.
    Evidence basis
    Importierter Querverweis über Fachgrenzen (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Recorded review status
    ATLAS_109 klassifiziert (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)

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  7. R-271 · Distinction · directed

    Connotation → Denotation

    Meaning of the relation type
    Ein Atlasprofil grenzt den Zielbegriff ausdrücklich ab. (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Why connected?
    English editorial text
    Denotation concerns what an expression designates. Connotation concerns the associations or evaluations it can carry. Both may contribute to what a speaker communicates by choosing that expression.
    Evidence basis
    Profilfeld: Nicht verwechseln mit (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Recorded review status
    ATLAS_109 klassifiziert (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)

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  8. R-272 · Cross-field connection · directed

    Connotation → Register

    Meaning of the relation type
    Die Verbindung überschreitet einen fachlichen Kontinent. (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Why connected?
    English editorial text
    A choice of register can change the social associations or evaluations an expression evokes. Connotation describes those associations, while register concerns the broader pattern of language choices in a situation.
    Evidence basis
    Importierter Querverweis über Fachgrenzen (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Recorded review status
    ATLAS_109 klassifiziert (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)

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  9. R-273 · Distinction · directed

    Blend → Compound

    Meaning of the relation type
    Ein Atlasprofil grenzt den Zielbegriff ausdrücklich ab. (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Why connected?
    English editorial text
    A blend fuses shortened or overlapping base forms. A typical compound combines lexical constituents differently. The way the constituents are combined matters as much as their number.
    Evidence basis
    Profilfeld: Nicht verwechseln mit (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Recorded review status
    ATLAS_109 klassifiziert (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)

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  10. R-274 · Subject neighbour · directed

    Blend → Neologism

    Meaning of the relation type
    Beide Begriffe gehören demselben fachlichen Kontinent an. (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Why connected?
    English editorial text
    Blending is one way of creating a neologism. Neologism describes the form’s novelty in a particular context of use, regardless of which word-formation process produced it.
    Evidence basis
    Gemeinsamer fachlicher Kontinent (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Recorded review status
    ATLAS_109 klassifiziert (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)

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  11. R-275 · Cross-field connection · directed

    Blend → Anagram

    Meaning of the relation type
    Die Verbindung überschreitet einen fachlichen Kontinent. (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Why connected?
    English editorial text
    Blending combines forms and their associations. Anagramming rearranges letters from an existing form. The two procedures work with different units and rules.
    Evidence basis
    Importierter Querverweis über Fachgrenzen (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Recorded review status
    ATLAS_109 klassifiziert (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)

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  12. R-276 · Distinction · directed

    Convention → Symbol

    Meaning of the relation type
    Ein Atlasprofil grenzt den Zielbegriff ausdrücklich ab. (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Why connected?
    English editorial text
    A convention is an established social rule or association. A symbol can draw its meaning from such a convention. The shared practice explains how a particular sign can be understood.
    Evidence basis
    Profilfeld: Nicht verwechseln mit (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Recorded review status
    ATLAS_109 klassifiziert (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)

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  13. R-277 · Subject neighbour · directed

    Convention → Code

    Meaning of the relation type
    Beide Begriffe gehören demselben fachlichen Kontinent an. (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Why connected?
    English editorial text
    Codes organise relations between signs and meanings. Conventions can sustain their shared use. The connection concerns how an organised system becomes established in a community.
    Evidence basis
    Gemeinsamer fachlicher Kontinent (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Recorded review status
    ATLAS_109 klassifiziert (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)

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  14. R-278 · Cross-field connection · directed

    Convention → Language game

    Meaning of the relation type
    Die Verbindung überschreitet einen fachlichen Kontinent. (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Why connected?
    English editorial text
    A language game connects uses of words with the activities in which they have a role. Conventions can give these practices stability. Understanding a game also means seeing what participants do with words in the wider activity.
    Evidence basis
    Importierter Querverweis über Fachgrenzen (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Recorded review status
    ATLAS_109 klassifiziert (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)

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  15. R-279 · Subject neighbour · directed

    Conversation Analysis → Adjacency pair

    Meaning of the relation type
    Beide Begriffe gehören demselben fachlichen Kontinent an. (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Why connected?
    English editorial text
    Conversation analysis studies sequences of related actions. Adjacency pairs help explain what response an action makes relevant and how participants handle that expectation.
    Evidence basis
    Gemeinsamer fachlicher Kontinent (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Recorded review status
    ATLAS_109 klassifiziert (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)

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  16. R-280 · Subject neighbour · directed

    Conversation Analysis → Speaker change

    Meaning of the relation type
    Beide Begriffe gehören demselben fachlichen Kontinent an. (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Why connected?
    English editorial text
    Conversation analysis examines how participants manage speaker changes in particular sequences, including how they claim a turn and repair problems in the exchange.
    Evidence basis
    Gemeinsamer fachlicher Kontinent (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Recorded review status
    ATLAS_109 klassifiziert (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)

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  17. R-281 · Subject neighbour · directed

    Conversation Analysis → Conversational turn

    Meaning of the relation type
    Beide Begriffe gehören demselben fachlichen Kontinent an. (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Why connected?
    English editorial text
    Conversation analysis examines how turns are built, understood and responded to. A turn’s function depends on its place in the sequence as well as on its sentence type.
    Evidence basis
    Gemeinsamer fachlicher Kontinent (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Recorded review status
    ATLAS_109 klassifiziert (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)

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  18. R-282 · Distinction · directed

    Conversion → Derivation

    Meaning of the relation type
    Ein Atlasprofil grenzt den Zielbegriff ausdrücklich ab. (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Why connected?
    English editorial text
    Conversion is commonly analysed as a change of word class with no overt derivational affix. Whether it counts as a kind of derivation or a separate process depends on the word-formation model.
    Evidence basis
    Profilfeld: Nicht verwechseln mit (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Recorded review status
    ATLAS_109 klassifiziert (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)

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  19. R-283 · Subject neighbour · directed

    Conversion → Morpheme

    Meaning of the relation type
    Beide Begriffe gehören demselben fachlichen Kontinent an. (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Why connected?
    English editorial text
    Conversion can change a word’s lexical category without adding an overt morpheme. That makes it a useful test of what an analysis based only on segmenting forms can explain.
    Evidence basis
    Gemeinsamer fachlicher Kontinent (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Recorded review status
    ATLAS_109 klassifiziert (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)

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  20. R-284 · Distinction · directed

    Sound symbolism → Onomatopoeia

    Meaning of the relation type
    Ein Atlasprofil grenzt den Zielbegriff ausdrücklich ab. (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Why connected?
    English editorial text
    Sound symbolism studies recurring associations between sound and meaning. Onomatopoeia is a more specific case in which a form is shaped in response to a sound.
    Evidence basis
    Profilfeld: Nicht verwechseln mit (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Recorded review status
    ATLAS_109 klassifiziert (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)

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  21. R-285 · Subject neighbour · directed

    Sound symbolism → Phonestheme

    Meaning of the relation type
    Beide Begriffe gehören demselben fachlichen Kontinent an. (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Why connected?
    English editorial text
    Phonesthemes are recurring sound patterns associated with meanings. They offer evidence to investigate in sound symbolism, even where the pattern has no clear status as a morpheme.
    Evidence basis
    Gemeinsamer fachlicher Kontinent (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Recorded review status
    ATLAS_109 klassifiziert (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)

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  22. R-286 · Cross-field connection · directed

    Sound symbolism → Literary synaesthesia

    Meaning of the relation type
    Die Verbindung überschreitet einen fachlichen Kontinent. (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Why connected?
    English editorial text
    Sound symbolism links sound patterns to associations of meaning. Literary synaesthesia brings together different sensory domains in an expression. The comparison concerns linguistic patterns and supplies no evidence of neurological coupling.
    Evidence basis
    Importierter Querverweis über Fachgrenzen (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Recorded review status
    ATLAS_109 klassifiziert (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)

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  23. R-287 · Cross-field connection · directed

    Gap → Aposiopesis

    Meaning of the relation type
    Die Verbindung überschreitet einen fachlichen Kontinent. (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Why connected?
    English editorial text
    Aposiopesis can create a gap that readers have to interpret. A gap in a text is a broader task for the reader and can arise in other ways.
    Evidence basis
    Importierter Querverweis über Fachgrenzen (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Recorded review status
    ATLAS_109 klassifiziert (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)

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  24. R-288 · Distinction · directed

    Gap → Ellipsis

    Meaning of the relation type
    Ein Atlasprofil grenzt den Zielbegriff ausdrücklich ab. (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Why connected?
    English editorial text
    A literary gap leaves room for interpretation. Ellipsis is a linguistic pattern of omission. An ellipsis can create such a gap, which may also arise from other features of the text.
    Evidence basis
    Profilfeld: Nicht verwechseln mit (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Recorded review status
    ATLAS_109 klassifiziert (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)

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