Search

The Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary

 
     
 

Encyclopedia

Dictionary

Quotes

   
 

List of linguistic topics


See also


A

abbreviation - abessive case - ablaut - absolutive case - abugida - accusative case - acute accent - accent - acronym - adessive case - adjective - adverb - affix - affricate consonant - agglutination - agglutinative language - allative case - allomorph - allophone - alphabet - analytic language - anaphora - anthropological linguistics - alveolar consonant - antonym - approximant - article - articulatory phonetics - aspect - areal feature asterisk - augment - auxiliary verb

B

back-formation - backronym - bilabial consonant - breathy voice - breve

C

calque - capitalization - capitonym - cardinal vowel - case - cedilla - circumfix - circumflex - clefting - click consonant - closed-class word - cognate - cognitive science - coherence - colloquialism - comitative case - common phrases in different languages - comparative - comparative linguistics - comparative method - compound noun and adjective - compound verb - computer-assisted language learning - computational linguistics - conjugation - conjunction - consonant - constructed language - context - copula - corpus - corpus linguistics - cranberry morpheme - creaky voice - creole language - cryptanalysis - cuneiform

D

dangling modifier - dative case - decipherment - declension - defective verb - descriptive linguistics - dental consonant - derivation - determiner - diacritic - diaeresis - dialect - dictionary - diphthong - discourse - dislocation - double acute accent - dual grammatical number

E

ecolect - eggcorn - elative case - endangered language - English pronunciation - entailment - ergative case - error - essive case - Ethnologue - etymology - etymologist - evolutionary linguistics - example-based machine translation - expletive

F

false cognate - false friend - formal language - fricative consonant - function word - fusional language - future tense

G

gender - general semantics - genitive case - gerund - glottal consonant - glottal stop - glottochronology - grammar - grammatical mood - grammatical number - grammatical voice - grave accent - Great Vowel Shift - Grimm's law - guttural consonant

H

hacek - Heaps' law - historical-comparative linguistics - historical linguistics - history of linguistics - homonym - hypernym - hyponym

I

ideogram - idiolect - idiom - illative case - impersonal pronoun - impersonal verb - implication (pragmatics) - Indo-European languages - inessive case - infinitive - infix - inflected language - inflection - initialism - initial-stress-derived noun - instructive case - interjection - International Phonetic Alphabet - IPA chart for English irregular verb

J

K

L

labiodental consonant - language - language acquisition - language education - language families and languages - language game - The Language Instinct - language isolate - laryngeal theory - lateral consonant - lemma - lexeme - lexical semantics - lexicography - lexicology - lexicon - linguist - linguistic layers - linguistic anthropology - linguistics - linguistics basic topics - liquid consonant - List of linguists - loanword - locative case

M

machine translation - macron - manner of articulation - meaning - melodic accent - meronymy - metathesis - minimal pair - mispronunciation - mora - morpheme - morphology

N

naming - nasal consonant - natural language - natural language processing - natural language understanding - neologism - neurolinguistics - nominative case - noun - noun phrase - null morpheme

O

onomatopoeia - open class word - optimality theory - origin of language - orthography - object subject verb - object verb subject - oxytone

P

palatal consonant - paradigm - paroxytone - part of speech - participle - particle - partitive case - pharyngeal consonant - philology - philosophy of language - phonation - phone - phonetics - phonetic complement - phonetic transcription - phonology - phoneme - phonemics - phrase - phrase structure rules - pidgin - place of articulation - pleonasm - pluperfect - polysemy - polysynthetic language - portmanteau - possessive case - postalveolar consonant - postposition - pragmatics - prefix - preposition - prepositional phrase - prescription and description - presupposition - preterite - profanity - prolative case - pronoun - pronunciation - prosody (linguistics) - proparoxytone - pseudo-acronym - pseudo-Anglicism - psycholinguistics - punctuation

Q

R

radical - retroflex consonant - retronym - rhotics - romanization - rounded vowel

S

SAMPA - Sapir-Whorf hypothesis - schwa - second language - semantics - semantic class - semantic feature - semantic property - semiotics - semivowel - sentence - shall - sign - sign language - sociolinguistics - slack voice - slang - sociolect - sound change - The sound pattern of English - SOV - speaker recognition - specialized lexicography - speech - speech act - speech disorder - speech processing - speech recognition - speech synthesis - speech therapy - spiritus asper - split infinitive - standard language - stop consonant - stratificational linguistics - structuralism - stylistics - superlative - suppletion - subject - SVO - syllabary - syllable - synonym - syntactic ambiguity - syntactic categories - syntax - synthetic language

T

tagmemics - tense - thematic role - theoretical linguistics - thesaurus - thou - tonal language - tongue-twister - transcription - Transformational-generative grammar - translation - translative case - truth condition - T-V distinction - typology

U

umlaut - uninflected word - Universal grammar - uvular consonant

V

variety - velar consonant - verb - verb object subject - verb phrase - verb subject object Verner's law - vocative case - vowel - vowel harmony - vowel stems -

W

will (verb) - word - word sense disambiguation - writing - writing systems - wug test

X

X-bar theory

Y

Z

Zipf's law

Last updated: 05-13-2005 07:56:04