Comrade:Jaiden/sandbox

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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