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Term
The linguistics
field it belongs to

The conceptualization
in the language of origin

Example
Translation accounting
for the content equivalence

uncountable noun 

morphology

a grammatical distinction of nouns denoting things that are treated as a mass of something, for instance, materials and liquids, states of mind, conditions, topics, processes and substances. That’s why they cannot be counted and combined with cardinal numbers; however, they can be measured (we use partitives for this purpose).

water, ham, music, luggage, sand, love

v slovenčine existuje výraz “nepočítateľné podstatné meno”, no nie v zmysle gramatickej kategórie počítateľnosti

unqualified comparative

stylistics

Comparatives that do not specify with whom or what somebody or something is compared.

“An improved formula”.

komparatív bez porovnávania / prirovnávania

utterance 

syntax, stylistics

Any speech sequence consisting of one or more words and preceded and followed by silence: it may be coextensive with a sentence.

“Wow! Look over there!”

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