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paradigm

paradigm

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A list that shows all the different forms of a word
  • noun
  • /ˈpærəˌdaɪm/
  • Specialized
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  • The teacher explained the concept of a paradigm using examples from various languages to illustrate inflection.
  • paradigm shift
  • experimental paradigm
  • basic paradigm

So patterns within the paradigms, the neuter and masculine genitive singular forms are are always going to be the same.

Examples

  • Most Nahuatl specialists are less concerned than Mignolo with the formal paradigms of philology or theories of intercultural symbolic interaction.

    Academic text (1997)

  • Linguists often analyze the paradigm of regular verbs to better understand their conjugation patterns.

  • The article concludes with a discussion of a potential paradigm shift in military culture.

    Academic text (1994)

  • Figure 2 provides an example of the boundary paradigm.

    Academic text (2013)

  • In order to confirm the structure of the proposed paradigm, replication of the original design with a larger sample size is recommended.

    Academic text (2014)

  • Motivated by the needs of applications, several extensions of the basic ASP paradigm have been proposed.

    Academic text (2011)

  • To do so, we used a visual masking paradigm designed to obscure the structural information available in the image.

    Academic text (2018)

  • An experimental paradigm was also proposed to clarify the issue of causality between dream experiences and waking life factors.

    Academic text (2005)

  • Fundamental to Thomas Kuhn's argument is the concept of a "paradigm." A paradigm constitutes the worldview of a scientific community.

    Academic text (2012)

  • The rubber-hand illusion paradigm was adapted from Botvinick and Cohen (1998).

    Academic text (2018)

Surface Forms

paradigm singular
paradigms plural

Etymology

Paradigm comes from the Greek word paradeigma, which means 'pattern' or 'example' and is built from para- 'beside' and deik- 'to show'. So a grammatical paradigm is like a pattern you put beside a word to show all its forms, which is why books list the full set of endings together.