General Usage
Less formally, cline has been applied to describe a wide variety of linguistic gradients:
- cline of activity and transitivity
- cline of attribution
- cline of intelligibility
- cline of narrative interference
- cline of metaphor
- cline from metonymy
- semantic cline
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