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<distinct>

identifies any word or phrase which is regarded as linguistically distinct, for example as archaic, technical, dialectal, non-preferred, etc., or as forming part of a sublanguage.

Module coreCOHQHD

Attributes

@typespecifies the sublanguage or register to which the word or phrase is being assigned.
Status
Optional
Datatype
teidata.enumerated
<div type="verse">
  <head>Night in Tarras</head>
  <lg type="stanza">
    <l>At evening tramping on the hot white road</l>
    <l>…</l>
  </lg>
  <lg type="stanza">
    <l>A wind sprang up from nowhere as the sky</l>
    <l>…</l>
  </lg>
</div>
@timespecifies how the phrase is distinct diachronically.
Status
Optional
Datatype
teidata.text
@spacespecifies how the phrase is distinct diatopically.
Status
Optional
Datatype
teidata.text
@socialspecifies how the phrase is distinct diastratically.
Status
Optional
Datatype
teidata.text

Classes and content

Member of
May contain

dictionaries

gaiji

header

textcrit

textstructure

Character data

  • character data
Contained by

analysis

cmc

linking

spoken

tagdocs

Example

Next morning a boy
in that dormitory confided to his bosom friend, a
<distinct type="ps_slang">fag</distinct>
 of
Macrea's, that there was trouble in their midst which King
<distinct type="archaic">would fain</distinct>

keep secret.

Content model

<content>
    <macroRef key="macro.phraseSeq"/>
  </content>