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A through C
Term | Definition | Example | See also |
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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 |
Accent | |||
Accomodation | |||
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 | |||
Age | |||
Agreement | |||
Allomorph | |||
Allomorphy | |||
Allophone | |||
Ambiguity | |||
Antonyms | |||
Antonymy | |||
Arbitrariness | |||
Assertive speech act | |||
Aspect | |||
Assimilation | |||
Attributive adjective | |||
Auxiliary verb | |||
Background knowledge | |||
Base | |||
Blending | |||
Borrowing | |||
Bound morpheme | |||
Case | |||
Categorization | |||
Classical theory of Categorization | |||
Clause | |||
Clause pattern | |||
Cleft construction | |||
Cleft test | |||
Clipping | |||
Closed word class | |||
Co-hyponyms | |||
Collocation | |||
Commissive speech act | |||
Comparative linguistics | |||
Complement (1) | |||
Complement (2) | |||
Complementaries | |||
Complementarity | |||
Complement clause | |||
Complementary distribution | |||
Complex linguistic expression | |||
Complex sentence | |||
Compositionality | |||
Compounding | |||
Concept | |||
Concordance | |||
Conjunction | |||
Connotation | |||
Consonant | |||
Consituent | |||
Content word | |||
Contradiction | |||
Contraction | |||
Contrast test | |||
Conventionality | |||
Conversational implicature | |||
Converse relation | |||
Converses | |||
Conversion | |||
Cooperative principle | |||
Coordination | |||
Copula | |||
Corpus (pl. Corpora) | |||
Count noun | |||
Covert prestige | |||
Creativity | |||
Cultural transmission |
D through F
Term | Definition | Example | See also |
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Data | |||
Declarative speech act | |||
Definiteness | |||
Definition test | |||
Deictic expression | |||
Denotation | |||
Dependent verb form | |||
Derivation | |||
Descriptive meaning | |||
Design features | |||
Determiner | |||
Diachronic linguistics | |||
Dialect | |||
Dialect continuum | |||
Dialectology | |||
Direct speech act | |||
Direct object | |||
Directional hypothesis | |||
Directive speech act | |||
Displacement | |||
Distribution | |||
Ditransitive clause | |||
Entailment | |||
Ethnicity | |||
Exclamative sentence | |||
Expressive speech act | |||
Extension | |||
Face | |||
Finite verb | |||
Finite clause | |||
Flouting | |||
Free morpheme | |||
Function word |
G through I
Term | Definition | Example | See also |
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Gapping test | |||
Gender | |||
Gender-preferential speech features | |||
Genitive case | |||
Gerund | |||
Gerund-participle | |||
Grade | |||
Gradability | |||
Grammar | |||
Grammaticalization | |||
Head | |||
Holonym | |||
Homonym | |||
Homonymy | |||
Hypernym (or Hyperonym) | |||
Hyponym | |||
Hyponymy | |||
Hypothesis | |||
Icon | |||
Idiom | |||
Illocution (or illocutionary force) | |||
Immediate constituents | |||
Imperative sentence | |||
Implicature | |||
Implicit knowledge | |||
Independent variable | |||
Indirect object | |||
Indirect speech act | |||
Inferencing | |||
Infinitive | |||
Inflection | |||
Information packaging | |||
Initialism | |||
Interpersonal knowledge | |||
Interrogative sentence | |||
Isogloss | |||
Intransitive clause | |||
Inversion | |||
IPA | |||
Irregular formation |
J through L
Term | Definition | Example | See also |
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Lexeme | |||
Lexical meaning | |||
Lexical semantics | |||
Licensing | |||
Linguistic expression | |||
Linguistics | |||
Linguistic knowledge | |||
Locution |
M through O
Term | Definition | Example | See also |
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Main clause | |||
Main verb | |||
Mass nouns | |||
Maxims of conversation | |||
Maxim of Manner | |||
Maxim of Quality | |||
Maxim of Quantity | |||
Maxim of Relevance | |||
Meaning variation | |||
Mental lexicon | |||
Meronym | |||
Meronymy | |||
Metaphor | |||
Metonymy | |||
Minimal pair | |||
Modal auxiliary | |||
Monomorphemic word | |||
Monotransitive | |||
Morph | |||
Morpheme | |||
Morphological conditioning | |||
Morphology | |||
Multicategoriality | |||
Necessary and sufficient features | |||
Negation | |||
Negative face | |||
Negative politeness | |||
Node | |||
Nominal | |||
Nominative case | |||
Non-additive word-formation | |||
Non-compositional expression | |||
Non-descriptive meaning | |||
Non-directional hypothesis | |||
Non-finite verb | |||
Non-finite clause | |||
Noun | |||
Noun phrase | |||
Number | |||
Open word class | |||
Operationalization | |||
Operator | |||
Opposition | |||
Organon model | |||
Overt prestige |
P through S
Term | Definition | Example | See also |
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Paradigmatic relationship | |||
Paraphrase | |||
Past participle | |||
Performative expression | |||
Person | |||
Phone | |||
Phoneme | |||
Phonological contitioning | |||
Phonology | |||
Phrase | |||
Phrase structure rules | |||
Plain form | |||
Plain present form | |||
Politeness | |||
Polymorphemic word | |||
Polysemy | |||
Positive face | |||
Positive politeness | |||
Pragmatics | |||
Pragmatic meaning | |||
Predicate | |||
Predication | |||
Predicative adjective | |||
Predicative complement | |||
Predicator | |||
Prefix | |||
Preposition | |||
Presupposition | |||
Preterite | |||
Productivity | |||
Pronoun | |||
Proposition | |||
Prototype | |||
Prototype theory | |||
Psycholinguistics | |||
Quiet violation of the cooperative principle | |||
Reference | |||
Referent | |||
Register | |||
Regular formation | |||
Relative clause | |||
Relative participle | |||
Root | |||
Rule | |||
Semantics | |||
Semantic components | |||
Semantic field | |||
Semantic meaning | |||
Semantic role | |||
Semiotic triangle | |||
Sense | |||
Sense relation | |||
Sentence | |||
Sentence meaning | |||
Sentence semantics | |||
Sentence type | |||
Sentence-fragment test | |||
Sign | |||
Simple linguistic expression | |||
Simple sentence | |||
Situational context | |||
Social class (or socio-economic status) | |||
Sociolect | |||
Sociolinguistics | |||
Speech act | |||
Speech act theory | |||
Standard | |||
Structural auxiliary | |||
Style | |||
Subordination | |||
Substitiution test | |||
Suffix | |||
Superordinate clause | |||
Symbol | |||
Synchronic linguistics | |||
Synonymy | |||
Syntactic function | |||
Syntagmatic relationship | |||
Syntax |
T through V
Term | Definition | Example | See also |
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Tense | |||
Transitivity | |||
Transitive clause | |||
Tree diagram | |||
Umlaut | |||
Utterance | |||
Vagueness | |||
Valency | |||
Variant | |||
Variety | |||
Verb | |||
Verb phrase | |||
Voice | |||
Voicing | |||
Vowel |
W through Z
Term | Definition | Example | See also |
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Word class | |||
Word-form | |||
World knowledge | |||
Zero form | |||
Zeugma test |