Comrade:Jaiden/sandbox

A through C

Term	Definition	Example	See also
Abbreviation	A sequence of words is reduced to their first letters.	USSR, laser	Word-formation, acronym, initialism
Ablaut	The inflectional marking of the preterite or other verb tenses is realized through change of the root vowel. Ablaut patterns consitute allomorphs of the regular -ed inflection in English.	sing, sang, sung	Allomorph, preterite, root morpheme, tense
Accusative case	Signals the direct object of a transitive verb.	She kissed her. You wrote a new essay?	Direct object, transitive verb
Acronym	Abbreviation that can be pronounced as one word.	NATO, NASA	Initialism, lexeme, non-additive word-formation
Additive word-formation process
Adjective
Adjective phrase
Adjunct
Adverb	A word class that modifies the main verb of a clause in a way that adds context.	She quickly realized that...	Circumstance adverb, clause, degree adverb, sentence adverb, word class
Adverb phrase
Adverbial phrase
Adverbial participle
Affix
Agreement
Allomorph
Allomorphy
Allophone
Arbitrariness
Aspect
Assimilation
Attributive adjective
Auxiliary verb
Base
Blending
Borrowing
Bound morpheme
Case
Clause
Clause pattern
Cleft test
Clipping
Closed word class
Comparative linguistics
Complement(1)
Complement (2)
Complement clause
Complementary distribution
Complex sentence
Compounding
Conjunction
Consonant
Consituent
Content word
Contraction
Conventionality
Conversion
Coordination
Copula
Count noun
Creativity
Cultural transmission

D through F

Term	Definition	Example	See also
Data
Definiteness
Dependent verb form
Derivation
Design features
Determiner
Diachronic linguistics
Direct object
Displacement
Distribution
Ditransitive clause
Exclamative sentence
Finite verb
Finite clause
Free morpheme
Function word

G through I

Term	Definition	Example	See also
Gapping test
Genitive case
Gerund
Gerund-participle
Grade
Gradability
Grammar
Head
Hypothesis
Icon
Immediate constituents
Imperative sentence
Implicit knowledge
Indirect object
Infinitive
Inflection
Initialism
Interrogative sentence
Intransitive clause
Inversion
IPA
Irregular formation

J through L

Term	Definition	Example	See also
Lexeme
Licensing
Linguistics
Linguistic knowledge

M through O

Term	Definition	Example	See also
Main clause
Main verb
Mass nouns
Minimal pair
Modal auxiliary
Monomorphemic word
Monotransitive
Morph
Morpheme
Morphological conditioning
Morphology
Multicategoriality
Negation
Node
Nominal
Nominative case
Non-additive word-formation
Non-finite verb
Non-finite clause
Noun
Noun phrase
Number
Open word class
Operator
Organon model

P through S

Term	Definition	Example	See also
Paradigmatic relationship
Past participle
Person
Phone
Phoneme
Phonological contitioning
Phonology
Phrase
Phrase structure rules
Plain form
Plain present form
Polymorphemic word
Pragmatics
Predicate
Predication
Predicative adjective
Predicative complement
Predicator
Prefix
Preposition
Preterite
Productivity
Pronoun
Psycholinguistics
Regular formation
Relative clause
Relative participle
Root
Rule
Semantics
Semantic role
Sentence
Sentence type
Sentence-fragment test
Sign
Simple sentence
Sociolinguistics
Structural auxiliary
Subordination
Substitiution test
Suffix
Superordinate clause
Symbol
Synchronic linguistics
Syntactic function
Syntagmatic relationship
Syntax

T through V

Term	Definition	Example	See also
Tense
Transitivity
Transitive clause
Tree diagram
Umlaut
Valency
Verb
Verb phrase
Voice
Voicing
Vowel

W through Z

Term	Definition	Example	See also
Word class
Word-form
Zero form