User:Javier Carro/Linguistic terminology

A
Abelian group (in semantics)

abessive case

abbreviation

ablative absolute

ablative case

abrupt onset of voicing

abruptive

absolute

absolute adjective

absolute antonymy

absolute nominative

absolute social deixis

absolute tense

absolute-relative tense

absolute superlative

absolute universal

absolutive case

abstract noun

abstraction (in phonology or phonetics)

abstractness controversy

accent

acceptability transformational grammar

accesibility (in Sperber and Wilson 1987;1995's Relevance Theory) (Semantics)

accidence

accompaniment as a semantic role

account

accoustics (in phonology or phonetics)

accusative case

accusative language

accusative plus infinitive construction

accusativization

active articulator

achievement

achievement test

acoustic agnosia

acoustic allesthesia

acoustic analysis

acoustic cue

acoustic image

acoustic phonetics

acquired dyslexia

acquired language disorder

acquisition hypothesis

acrolect

acronym

acrophone

acrophony

actant

ACTFL proficiency guidelines

action denoting verb

active articulator

active language

active voice

actor-action-model

actual implicature

actual presupposition

acute accent

adequacy transformational grammar

adessive

additive relation

addressee

addressee honorific

adhortative

adjacency pair (in pragmatics)

adjectival adverb

adjectival phrase

adjective

adjective phrase

adjunct

adjunction

adposition

adpositional phrase

adsentential

adstratum

advanced tongue root

adverb

adverbial clause

adverbial predication

adverbializer

advertising language

affected object

affective meaning

affiliation

affix

afix movement transformational grammar

affixation

affixoid

affricate

affrication

agent as a semantic role or agentive

agglutination

agglutinative language or agglutinating

agnosia

agrammatism

agraphia

agreement

airstream mechanism (in phonology or phonetics)

alethic modality

alexia

algebraic linguistics

alienable noun

alienable possession

allative case

all-quantifier

allegation

allegory

alliteration

allo-

alloflex

allograph

allomorph

allophone (in phonology or phonetics)

alloseme

allotagm

allotax

alpha movement (in transformational grammar)

alpha notation (in phonology or phonetics)

alpha privativum

alphabet

alphabetic writing system

alternant

alternation (in phonology or phonetics)

alternative principle

alternative question

alternative relation

alveolar (in phonology or phonetics)

alveolar ridge (in phonology or phonetics)

alveo-palatal (in phonology or phonetics)

amalgam

amalgamation

ambiguity

ambiguous consonant sequence

ambiguous phonetic transition

ambiguous segment

ambiguous sequence

ambiguous vowel sequence

ambisyllabic

American structuralism

Americanist system

amnesia

amplification relation

amplitude (in phonology or phonetics)

anacoluthon

anagram

analogist

analogue communication

analogy

analytic definition

analytic language from Schlegel 1818

analytic sentence

anaphora (in pragmatics)

anaphoric clitic

anaphoric island in Postal 1969

anaptyxis

anarthria from clinical phonology and speech language pathology

anastrophe (figure of speech)

anchored entity

animal communication

animate class

anomalist

answer

antanaclasis

antecedent (in pragmatics)

anterior (in phonology)

anthimeria

anthology

anthroponymy (in onomastics

anthroposemiotics (in semiotics)

anticipatory assimilation

anticipatory illocution

antimentalism (in behaviorism)

antipassive voice

antithesis relation

antonomasia

antonymy

aorist

A-over-A principle (in transformational grammar)

apex (in phonetics]])

aphaeresis

aphasia (in neurolinguistics)

aphemia Broca

aphesis (in language change)

aphonia (in speech-language pathology)

apical (in phonetics)

apico-alveolar (phonetics)

apico-dental (in phonetics)

apico-labial (in phonetics)

apico-post-alveolar (in phonetics)

apocopation >> apocope

apodosis

apokoinu

apophony >> ablaut

aposiopesis

A-position A-structure

apostrophe

appellative function of language

application from H.B Curry

applicational generative model

applicative

applied linguistics

apposition

appropriateness condition

approximant

apraxia

apraxic agraphia >> apraxia

arbitrariness

archaism

archilexeme by B. Pottier

archiphoneme from Prague School

Arc Pair Grammar >> Relational grammar

areal linguistics >> dialect geography

argot

argument

argument array transformational grammar

argument linking in R. Lieber 1983.

argument position in Chomsky

argumentation

argumenthood transformational grammar

arrow in comparative linguistics

article

articulation base

articulation disorder

articulation process (in phonology or phonetics)

articulator (in phonology or phonetics)

articulatory canal >> vocal tract

articulatory organ

articulatory phonetics

ascertainment relation

ascription feature (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

aspect

aspects model in Chomsky 1965

aspirated or aspiration (in phonology or phonetics)

assertion

assertive illocutionary point

assibilation

assimilation (in phonology or phonetics)

association in phsycholinguistics

association line (in phonology or phonetics)

associative meaning >> connotation

assumption (in Sperber and Wilson 1987;1995's Relevance Theory) (Semantics)

assumptive mood

asterisk

asyndeton

atelic

aterminative

athematic verb

ATN grammar

atomic concept >> semantic primitive

atomic sentence

attachment transformational grammar

attraction schema

attributable silence (in pragmatics)

attribute

attributive cluster (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

attributive formator (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

attribution relation

attributive adjective

attributive system (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

attributive use (in pragmatics)

audience

audio-lingual method

audio-lingual method

auditory evidential

auditory phonetics

augment

augmentative

aigmented transition network grammar ATN

a-umlaut

aunt transformational grammar

authorized recipient

authorized speaker

autism

autonomous syntax

autonomy of levels (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

autosegmental phonology (in phonology or phonetics)

autosemantic word

auxesis

auxiliary contraction transformational grammar

auxiliary verb

axiomatics of linguistics

B
backchannel signal or backchannel (in pragmatics)

back formation

back vowel

background entailment (in pragmatics)

background relation

backing >> velarization

balance schema

bald on record (in pragmatics)

barbarism

bar notation transformational grammar

Bartholomae's Law

base component generative grammar

base (morpheme)

basic statement (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

basic vocabulary

basic word order

basilect >> acrolect

basis

beech argument

beginning-postspan relation

Behaghel's laws

behaviorism

benefactive case

beneficiary as a semantic role

Berlitz method

biconditional relation

bidirectional assimilation

bilabial (in phonology or phonetics)

bilateral implication

bilateral opposition

bilingualism

binding

binding theory transformational grammar

biphonemic classification

bisegmentalization

biuniqueness

black box analysis

blockage schema

blocking circumstance

borrowed meaning

borrowing

bottom up vs top down

boundary marker

bounding

bound morpheme transformational grammar

bound root

bound stem

bounded deixis

boundedness

box diagram

brace brace notation (in phonology or phonetics)

brace construction

brachylogy

bracketing

bracketing paradox

branch

brand-new entity

breaking in comparativw linguistics

breathy vowel breathy voice (in phonology or phonetics)

bridge verb

Broca's aphasia

Broca's area

bucco-facial apraxie

Burzio's generalization transformational grammar

bystander

bystander honorific

C
cacophony

cacuminal

calque

cant

cardinal numeral

cardinal vowel (in phonology or phonetics)

case

casus rectus

catachresis

cataphora (in pragmatics)

catastrophe theory by Wildgen 1982

catchword

categorematic expression

categorial grammar

Categorial Rule

Categorial Unification Grammar

category

Category-neutral rule

category symbol in transformational grammar

causal clause

causal relation

causative

causative case

causer as a semantic role

c-command in transformational grammar

cedilla

center-periphery schema

centralization

centrifugal in dependency grammar

centripetal in dependency grammar by tesnière

centum vs satem languages

Cercle Linguistique de Conpenhague >> glossematics

cessative aspect

chain transformational grammar

chain of illocutionary commitments

characteristic function in categorial grammar

chart in parsing

checked syllable

child speech

chiasmus

Chosmky adjunction in transformational grammar

chunk (Miller and Selfridge (1950))

cinconstant in dependency grammar

circular definition

circumfix

circumfixation

circumflex

class

classifier

clasifying language in language typology

clasifying verb

clausal implicature (in pragmatics)

Clause-last Principle transformational grammar

Clausal Subject Principle transformational grammar

clause

clause chain

clase-mate condition in transformational grammar

clear "l" (in phonology or phonetics)

cleft sentence

click (in phonology or phonetics)

climax

clinical linguistics

clinical phonology

clipping

clitic

cliticization

close approximation (in phonology or phonetics)

close future tense

closed class (synsematic word)

closed syllable (in phonology or phonetics)

closed vowel

cluster (in G. N. Leech's Semantics and Weinreich's semantic theory)

cluttering in speech-language pathology

coalescence

co-argument condition transformational grammar

co-articulation in phonetics

co-constituent in syntax

coda (in phonology or phonetics)

code in information theory

code switching sociolinguistics

code theory

coding time

cognate

cognitive grammar

cognitive linguistics

cognitive synonym (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

coherence (in pragmatics)

cohesion

cohortative in modality

coindexing transformational grammar

coining word formation

collateral information

collective noun

colligation

collocate

collocation

collocation test in M. Joos 1958

colloquial speech

colon

color terms

combination in glossematics

comitative case

comma

command

comment

commissive illocutionary point (in pragmatics)

commissive modality

commitment between illocutionary acts

common noun

commonsense reasoning in computational linguistics

communication

communication model

communication science

communicative competence

commutation test (in phonology or phonetics and structuralism)

COMP position in syntax

compact vs difuse in phonology

comparative

comparative linguistics

comparative reconstruction

competence (in phonology or phonetics)

complement

complement clause

complement selection rule transformational grammar

complementary distribution (in phonology or phonetics)

complementizer

complex constituent transformational grammar

complex illocutionary act

complex sentence

complex symbol

complexity in computational linguistics

component (in G. N. Leech's Semantics and in transformational grammar)

componential analysis (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

componential formula (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

componential synonym (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

compositionality of meaning

compound

compound discourse

compound predicate

compound sentence

compound tense in transformational grammar

comprehensibility in text composition

compulsion schema

conative

concatenation in transformational grammar

conceptual extendedness

concession relation

concessive clause

conclusion

conclusive

concomitance

concord

concrete noun

conditional clause

conditional implication

conditional formator (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

conditional relation

conditional relevance in conversation analysis

conditioning by Pavlov

configurationality in transformational grammar

conflating rule

conjugation

conjunct

conjunction

conjunctive adverb

conjunctive illocutionary act

conjunctive verb

connecting vowel

connection in dependency grammar

connectionism in artificial intelligence

connective

connex relation in formal logic, set theory

connotation

consecutive interpreting

consequence clause

consequent

consociation

constancy under negation (in pragmatics)

consonant

consonant modification

constituency rule

constituent transformational grammar

constituent structure

constitutive rule (in semantics)

constraint transformational grammar

construction

container metaphor

containment schema

content

content condition (in pragmatics)

content word

context of an expression (in pragmatics)

context sensitive rule (in semantics)

context-free rule (in semantics)

contextual redundancy rule (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

continuant (in phonology or phonetics)

continuer

continuous aspect

contoid

contraction

contraction relation

contradiction (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

contrast in analogous environments

contrast in identical environments

contrast relation

contrastive

contrastive analysis

contrastive distribution (in phonology or phonetics)

contrastive pragmatics (in pragmatics)

control transformational grammar

control verb transformational grammar

conventional implicature (in pragmatics)

conventional metaphor

conventional metonymy

conversation analysis

conversational implicature (in pragmatics)

conversational maxim (in semantics)

conversational style (in pragmatics)

converseness (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

co-ocurrence restriction

cooperative principle (in pragmatics)

coordinate clause

coordinating conjunction

coordination reduction (transformational rule) (in semantics)

copula

core argument

core grammar transformational grammar

coreference (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

corpus

corpus linguistics

correction relation

correctness transformational grammar

correlative conjunction

correspondence set

co-text (in pragmatics)

count noun

counteragent as a semantic role

counterevidence (in phonology or phonetics)

counterfactual conditional relation

countefactual presupposition (in pragmatics)

counterforce schema

creaky voice (in phonology or phonetics)

creativity transformational grammar

creole

critical discourse analysis

cross-cultural pragmatics (in pragmatics)

cross-linguistic variation

crossing branches transformational grammar

cultural schemata (in pragmatics)

cuneiform

cycle schema

D
dark "l" (in phonology or phonetics)

dative as a semantic role

dative case

daughter transformational grammar

declaration (in pragmatics)

declarative illocutionary point

declarative mood

declension

deductive implication (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

deductive mood

Deep Representation Theory (DRT) (in semantics)

deep structure

default rule (in phonology or phonetics)

defective illocutionary act

defective verb

deference strategy (in pragmatics)

definite

definite formator (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

definite concessive relation

definite identifiability

definiteness

definition

degree

deictic center (in pragmatics)

deictic expression (in pragmatics)

deictic projection (in pragmatics)

deixis (in pragmatics)

delative case

delay

deletion (in phonology or phonetics)

deliberative mood

delinking (in phonology or phonetics)

demonstrative

demotion transformational grammar

dental (in phonology or phonetics)

deontic modality

dependence rule (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

dependent of a phrase

derivation (in phonology or phonetics)

derivational affix

Derivational Theory of Complexity (in CDA)

derivative

descendant transformational grammar

description relation

descriptive adequacy transformational grammar

descriptive text

designative (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

designator (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

determiner

development lexical relation

devoicing (in phonology or phonetics)

diachrony (in phonology or phonetics)

dialect

dialogue discourse

different subject marker

diphthong (in phonology or phonetics)

direct illocution (in pragmatics)

direct object

direct speech (in pragmatics)

directive illocutionary point (in pragmatics)

directive modality

discontinuous constituents

discontinuous morpheme

discourse

discourse analysis

discourse deixis

discourse representation theory (in semantics)

discourse schema

dislocation transformational grammar

dismissive relation

dispreferred second part (in pragmatics)

dissimilation (in phonology or phonetics)

distal (in pragmatics)

distribution transformational grammar

distributive aspect

distributive numeral

ditransitivity

diversion schema

do support transformational grammar

dominance transformational grammar

double stop

downgrade (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

DRT see Deep Representation Theory (in semantics)

D-structure transformational grammar

dual articulation (in phonology or phonetics)

dual number

dubitative mood

dummy word

dynamic predicate logic (in semantics)

E
echo question

economy (in phonology or phonetics)

ejective (in phonology or phonetics)

elaboration relation

elative case

elementary illocutionary act

elicitation

elicitation frame

elision (in phonology or phonetics)

elliptical construction

elsewhere condition (in phonology or phonetics)

embedded repair

embedding

empathetic deixis

emphasis marker

emphatic additive relation

emphatic alternative relation

emphatic pronoun

empty cluster (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

empty formula (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

empty node transformational grammar

enablement relation

enablement schema

enclitic

endocentric construction

end-of-path schema

endophora

entailment (in pragmatics)

entity metaphor

environment

epenthesis (in phonology or phonetics)

epistemic modality

epistemic qualification

equative case

equative clause

equilibrium schema

equivalent

ergative case

essential condition (in pragmatics)

essive case

etymon

etymology

euphemism

evaluation information

evaluation relation

evaluative meaning (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

event

evidence relation

evidentiality

evoked entity

Excepcional Case Marking ECM transformational grammar

Excepcional Clause transformational grammar

exclamation

exclamative

exclusive alternative relation

exclusive first person deixis (in pragmatics)

exemplification relation

exhaustive dominance transformational grammar

existential clause

existential marker

existential presupposition (in pragmatics)

existential quantifier (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

existentially construed (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

exocentric construction

exophora

experiencer as a semantic role

experiential perfect aspect

explanatory adequacy transformational grammar

expletive

explicit performative

exposed repair

expository discourse

expository text

expression

expressive illocutionary point

Extended Projection Principle transformational grammar

extendedness

extension

external argument transformational grammar

external relation

external relative clause

[externalism]] (in semantics)

extraposition

F
face

face saving act (in pragmatics)

face threatening act (in pragmatics)

face wants (in pragmatics)

factitive as a semantic role

factive presupposition (in pragmatics)

factual implication (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

factual synonym

failure of fit

family (language families)

familiarity

feature (in phonology or phonetics)

feature-changing rule (in phonology or phonetics)

feature dependency (in phonology or phonetics)

feature geometry (in phonology or phonetics)

feature matrix (in phonology or phonetics)

feeling-tone

felicity conditions

feminine gender

field distinction

field notebook

figurative sense

final clause

finite clause

finite verb

first part

first person deixis

fit

fixed collocation

fixed lexical collocation

flap (in phonology or phonetics)

floor (in pragmatics)

flouting implicature (in pragmatics)

focus

foot (in phonology or phonetics)

force as a semantic role

force schema

foreground entailment (in pragmatics)

formal language

formal rule of synonym (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

formality

formant (in phonology or phonetics)

formative

formator (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

fortis consonant

fossilized term

frame

free morpheme

free translation

free variation (in phonology or phonetics)

frequency (in phonology or phonetics)

fricative (in phonology or phonetics)

full noun phrase

function word

fundamental frequency (in phonology or phonetics)

fusional language

future perfect tense

future tense

future-in-future tense

future-in-past tense

future-perfect-in-past tense

G
gap

gender

general conditions (in pragmatics)

generalized conversational implicature

generalized quantificational logic (in semantics)

given information

grammatical gender

generalized implicature (in pragmatics)

generative grammar

generative phonology (in phonology or phonetics)

generic term

generic-specific lexical relation

genitive case

genre

gestural usage

given information

given versus new information

glide (in phonology or phonetics)

gloss

glotal (in phonology or phonetics)

glottal stop (in phonology or phonetics)

glottalic egressive (in phonology or phonetics)

glottalic ingressive (in phonology or phonetics)

glottalisation (in phonology or phonetics)

glottis (in phonology or phonetics)

goal as a semantic role

governing category transformational grammar

government transformational grammar

grammatical category

grammatical competence

grammatical relation

grammatical rule (in semantics)

grammatical tone (in phonology or phonetics)

Greek-letter variable (in phonology or phonetics)

grounding

H
habitual aspect

harmonics (in phonology or phonetics)

"have" contraction transformational grammar

head

head of a phrase

headedness transformational grammar

headword

heavy syllable (in phonology or phonetics)

hedged performative (in pragmatics)

Herz (in phonology or phonetics)

hesitation pause

hesternal past tense

heterosyllabic (in phonology or phonetics)

hierarchical lexical relation

hierarchical system (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

high considerateness style (in pragmatics)

high involvement style (in pragmatics)

hodiernal future tense

hodiernal past tense

homograph

homonym

homophone (in phonology or phonetics)

homophora

homorganic (in phonology or phonetics)

honorific (in pragmatics)

horizontal deixis

hortatory discourse

hortatory text

host

human class

hypercorrection

hyperbole

hyponym

hypothetical mood

I
iconic sign

identity of illocutionary forces

ideational function (in pragmatics)

ideophone

idiom

illative case

illocutionary act (in pragmatics)

illocutionary conditional

illocutionary connective

illocutionary consistency

illocutionary denegation

illocutionary force (in pragmatics)

illocutionary force indicating device IFID (in pragmatics)

illocutionary inconsistency

illocutionary point

illocutionary verb

illustrative sentence

image schema

immediacy

immediate constituent

immediate imperative mood

immediate past tense

imperative mood

imperfective aspect

impermissible mixed metaphor

impersonal verb

implication (in G. N. Leech's Semantics) & (in pragmatics)

implicational scale (in pragmatics)

implicational universal

implicature (in pragmatics)

implicit performative (in pragmatics)

implosive (in phonology or phonetics)

imprecative mood

inalienable noun

inalienable possession

inanimate class

inchoative aspect

inclusive alternative relation

inclusive first person deixis

inconsistency (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

indefinite concessive relation

indefinite pronoun

indefiniteness

independent predication or main predication (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

indexical

indirect illocution

indirect object

indirect speech

indirect symmetry (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

individual-group lexical relation

inductive implication (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

inessive case

inferable entity

inferior status

infield distinction

infinitive

infix

infixation

inflection

inflectional affix

inflectional category

informal language

information structure

informatively vacuous (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

informativeness principle

initiative time latency

insertion sequence (in phonology or phonetics)

instrument as a semantic role

instrumental case

instrumental motivation

integrative motivation

intended perlocutionary effect

intensifier

interdental

interjection

interlanguage

interlanguage pragmatics

intermediate form (in phonology or phonetics)

internal relation

internal relative clause

internalism (in semantics)

International Phonetic Alphabet (in phonology or phonetics)

interpersonal function (in pragmatics)

interpretation (in Sperber and Wilson 1987;1995's Relevance Theory) (Semantics)

interpretation relation

interpropositional relation

interrogative mood

interrogative pro-form

intimate social deixis

intonation (in phonology or phonetics)

intransitivity

intrusive "r" (in phonology or phonetics)

inverseness (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

inversion system (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

irony

irrealis modality

irregular verb

island transformational grammar according to Ross 1967

isogloss

isolating language

it cleft transformational grammar

iterative aspect

J
judgment modality

jussive mood

justification relation

K
kinetic distinction

L
"l" velarisation (in phonology or phonetics)

labial (in phonology or phonetics)

labial-velar (in phonology or phonetics)

labialization (in phonology or phonetics)

labio-dental (in phonology or phonetics)

language associate

language family

lapse

larynx

lateral (in phonology or phonetics)

lateral release (in phonology or phonetics)

lative case

larynx (in phonology or phonetics)

lax] (in [[phonology or phonetics)

learnability (in phonology or phonetics)

length

lenis consonant

lenition (in phonology or phonetics)

level of representation (in phonology or phonetics)

lexeme

lexical ambiguity

lexical category

lexical constituent transformational grammar

lexical database

lexical entry

lexical form

lexical item

lexical phonology (in phonology or phonetics)

lexical presupposition (in pragmatics)

lexical relation

lexical relation elicitation frame

lexical relation set

lexical relation with a scale structure

lexical relation with a set of pairs structure

lexical relation with a simple set structure

lexical relation with a tree structure

lexical semantics

lexical rule (in phonology or phonetics)

lexical tone

lexical unit

lexical variety

lexical verb

lexicon

light syllable

linear phonology (in phonology or phonetics)

lingua franca

linguistic repertoire

link schema

linking "r" (in phonology or phonetics)

linking verb or copular verb

liquid (in phonology or phonetics)

literal meaning in a lexical database

literal translation

litotes

local managment system

locative as a semantic role

locative case

locution

locutionary act (in pragmatics)

logical exclusion (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

logical implication (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

logical inclusion (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

logical relation

logical synonym (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

logographic writing

M
main clause

major class feature (in phonology or phonetics)

major entry in a lexical database

manifestness (in Sperber and Wilson 1987;1995's Relevance Theory) (Semantics)

manner as a semantic role

manner implicature (in pragmatics)

manner of action or Aktionsart

manner of articulation (in phonology or phonetics)

manner of discourse

marker

marking clause

masculine gender

mass noun

matrix

matrix sentence

maxim

meaning

meaning and pragmatic function

meaningful (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

meaningless (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

means-purpose relation

means-result relation

measure as a semantic role

medial clause

medial cluster (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

mediopassive voice

meiosis

metalinguistic cluster (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

metaphor

metaphorical entailment

metathesis (in phonology or phonetics)

metonymy

metrical phonology

middle voice

mid-saggital (in phonology or phonetics)

minimal pair (in phonology or phonetics)

minor entry in a lexical database

"mirror image" notatinal convention (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

misplacement marker

mitigating device

mixed metaphor

mixed quantification

modality

mode

mode of achievement

moderate epistemic qualification

modification

modifier

monophthong (in phonology or phonetics)

monotone decreasing quantified noun phrase

monotone increasing quantified noun phrase

mood and modality

Moore's paradox (in semantics)

mora (in phonology or phonetics)

morph

morpheme

morpheme type

morphological process

morphological typology

morphology

morphophonemic rule

morphophonemics

morphosyntactic operation

motivation relation

move

multiplicative numeral

N
narrative discourse

narrative text

nasal release (in phonology or phonetics)

nasalization (in phonology or phonetics)

nasalized vowel (in phonology or phonetics)

nativization

natural class (in phonology or phonetics)

naturalness (in phonology or phonetics)

near minimal pair (in phonology or phonetics)

necessity

negation

negative conditional relation

negative face

negative formator (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

negative politeness (in pragmatics)

negative politeness strategy (in pragmatics)

negative purpose relation

negation raising (transformational rule]] (in semantics)

neuter gender

neutralization (in phonology or phonetics)

new information

new metaphor

newsmark

next turn repair initiator

node (in phonology or phonetics)

node relation transformational grammar

nominal

nominal clause

nominalization

nominative case

nonconventional implicature (in pragmatics)

nonconversational implicature (in pragmatics)

nondefective illocutionary act (in pragmatics)

nonextendedness

non-factive presupposition (in pragmatics)

nonfinite clause

nonfinite verb

nonfuture tense

non-linear phonology (in phonology or phonetics)

nonpast tense

nonrecent past tense

nonremote past tense

nonrestrictive relative clause

nonspecificity

nonvisual evidential

notional

not-yet tense

noun

noun adjunct

noun class

noun phrase

nuclear syllable

nucleus (in phonology or phonetics)

number

numeral

O
object

object complement

obligative mood

oblique object

obliterative overlap

obstruent (in phonology or phonetics)

obviative person deixis

offglide

offprint

off record

on record

oh-receipt

one-place predication (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

onomatopoeia

onset (in phonology or phonetics)

ontological metaphor

open approximation (in phonology or phonetics)

open class

open presupposed proposition

open syllable (in phonology or phonetics)

opposite lexical relation

optative mood

oral (in phonology or phonetics)

oral tract (in phonology or phonetics)

ordering system (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

ordinal numeral

ordinary pronoun or personal pronoun

orientational metaphor

orthography

other-initiated repair

other-repair

out-of-field distinction

overall organization

overlap

oxymoron

P
palatal (in phonology or phonetics)

palato-alveolar (in phonology or phonetics)

parable

paradigm

paradigmatic lexical relation

paradox

paralipsis

paraphrase (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

parataxis

parentheses (in phonology or phonetics)

parenthesis relation

paronomasia

participant role

participle

particle

particularized implicature (in pragmatics)

partitive case

partitive numeral

part-whole schema

passing turn

passive articulator (in phonology or phonetics)

passive voice

past perfect tense

past tense

path

path schema

patient as a semantic role

pattern congruity (in phonology or phonetics)

perfect

perfect of persistent situation

perfect of recent past

perfect of result

perfective aspect

performance (in phonology or phonetics) (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

performative

performative hypothesis (in pragmatics)

performative verb (in pragmatics)

perlocutionary act (in pragmatics)

perlocutionary failure

perlocutionary verb

permissible mixed metaphor

permissive mood

person deixis (in pragmatics)

personal pronoun

personification

pesky little particle

pharyngeal (in phonology or phonetics)

phone (in phonology or phonetics)

phoneme (in phonology or phonetics)

phonetically similar segment (in phonology or phonetics)

phonetic form (in phonology or phonetics)

phonetic similarity (in phonology or phonetics)

phonetics (in phonology or phonetics)

phonological component (in phonology or phonetics)

phonological derivation (in phonology or phonetics)

phonological hierarchy (in phonology or phonetics)

phonological rule (in phonology or phonetics)

phonological symmetry (in phonology or phonetics)

phonological structure (in phonology or phonetics)

phonological universal (in phonology or phonetics)

phonology (in phonology or phonetics)

phonotactics (in phonology or phonetics)

phonotactic constraints (in phonology or phonetics)

phrasal constituent transformational grammar

phrasal verb

phrase

phrase-structure rule

pitch (in phonology or phonetics)

pictogram

pidgin

pitch

place deixis

place of articulation (in phonology or phonetics)

plausibility (in phonology or phonetics)

pleonasm (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

plosive (in phonology or phonetics)

plural formation

plural number

polar system (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

polarity

politeness (in pragmatics)

polysemy

polysynthetic language

portmanteau morph

position

positive face (in pragmatics)

positive politeness (in pragmatics)

positive politeness strategy

possessive noun

possessive pronoun

possessor

possibility

post-hodiernal future tense

post-lexical rule (in phonology or phonetics)

postposition

postpositional phrase

post-sequence

potential implicature (in pragmatics)

potential presupposition (in pragmatics)

pragmatic accent (in pragmatics)

pragmatic connection (in pragmatics)

pragmatics (in pragmatics)

preannouncement (in pragmatics)

prearrangement

precategorial class

precative mood

preclosing

predicate

predicate adjective

predicate noun

predication (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

predicator

predictable information

predictive future tense

preface

preference structure (in pragmatics)

preferred second part (in pragmatics)

prefix

prefixation

prehesternal past tense

prehodiernal past tense

preinvitation (in pragmatics)

premodal

prenasalization

preparatory condition (in pragmatics)

preposition

prepositional phrase

prerequest (in pragmatics)

present tense

presequence

prespan-end relation

Presumption of Optimal Relevance (in Sperber and Wilson 1987;1995's Relevance Theory) (Semantics)

presupposition (in pragmatics)

presupposition denial (in pragmatics)

presupposition suspension (in pragmatics)

presupposition trigger (in pragmatics)

preterit

previousness relation

primary performative (in pragmatics)

primary sense

principal predication (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

Principle of Relevance (in Sperber and Wilson 1987;1995's Relevance Theory) (Semantics)

pro-adjective

pro-adverb

procedural discourse

procedural text

process (in phonology or phonetics)

process naturalness (in phonology or phonetics)

proclitic

productive affix

pro-form

progressive aspect

prohibitive mood

projection problem (in pragmatics)

prolative case

pronominal

pronoun

propagation medium (in phonology or phonetics)

proper noun

proportional relation

proposition

propositional act

propositional content condition

prosody

prospective

prototype

pro-verb

proximal (in pragmatics)

proximal-distal dimension (in pragmatics)

proximate person deixis

pseudo-cleft sentence

psychological distance

pulmonic eggresive (in phonology or phonetics)

pun

pure indexical expresion (in semantics)

Q
quality implicature (in pragmatics)

quantification (in semantics)

quantificational adverb (in semantics)

quantificational dynamic logic (in semantics)

quantified intensional logic (in semantics)

quantifier

quantifier raising (transformational rule) (in semantics)

quantity implicature (in pragmatics)

question

quotative evidential

R
range as a semantic role

range of reference (in pragmatics)

rank

rank lexical relation

rank-shifted predication (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

ratified participant

realis modality

reason-result relation

receiving time

recent past tense

recipient

reciprocal pronoun

reciprocal system (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

reciprocal verb (in semantics)

reciprocity (in semantics)

recursion theory

recursive

reductionism (in semantics)

redundancy

redundancy rule (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

reduplication (in phonology or phonetics)

reference (in pragmatics)

reference clause

reference fixing (in semantics)

reference grammar

referential index (in semantics)

referential use (in pragmatics)

referent (in pragmatics)

referring expression

referent honorific

referential realm

referring expression

reflex

reflexive pronoun

reflexive verb

reformulation

register

regulative rule (semantics)

rejection finalizer

relation (in pragmatics)

relational proposition

relational social deixis

relative adverb

relative clause

relative future tense

relative nonfuture tense

relative nonpast tense

relative past tense

relative present tense

relative pronoun

relative system (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

relative tense

relativizer

relator

relevance implicature

relevance theory (in Sperber and Wilson 1987;1995's Relevance Theory) (Semantics) (in semantics)

remote future tense

remote past tense

repair

repartee discourse

repertoire

representational sign

representative (in pragmatics)

restatement relation

restraint removal schema

restrictive relative clause

result

retroflex (in phonology or phonetics)

reverential form

rhetorical question

rhotacized vowel

rhotic rhoticisation (in phonology or phonetics)

rhoticised vowel (in phonology or phonetics)

rhyme (in phonology or phonetics)

right node raising (transformational rule) (in semantics)

right recursive (in semantics)

right totality (in semantics)

rime

root

rounding (in phonology or phonetics)

rules of expresion (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

rule of synonym (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

rule of transference (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

rule ordering (in phonology or phonetics)

S
saggital section (in phonology or phonetics)

salient information

same subject marker

satisfaction (illocutionary act) (in semantics)

scalar implicature (in pragmatics)

scalar property lexical relation

scale schema

schema (in pragmatics)

schwa (in phonology or phonetics)

script (in pragmatics)

second part (in pragmatics)

second person deixis

secondary articulation

secondary sense

segment

self-initiated repair

self-repair

semantic atomism (in semantics)

semantic component

semantic feature (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

semantic grounding (in semantics)

semantic holism (in semantics)

semantic innocence (in semantics)

semantic marker (in semantics)

semantic redundancy (in semantics)

semantic role

semantic theory (in semantics)

semantic valency transformational grammar

semantics

semi lattice (in semantics)

semifactive verb (in semantics)

semivowel (in phonology or phonetics)

sense

sense group

sense type

sensory evidential

sentence

sentence adverb

sentence elicitation frame

sentence fragment transformational grammar

sentential complementation

separable affix

sequence

sequential relation

serial verb construction

setting information

shortening (in semantics)

sibilant (in phonology or phonetics)

sign

sign language

silence

similar pair

similarity relation

simile

simple sentence

simulfix

simultaneous relation

sincerity condition (in pragmatics)

singular number

singulative

situational elicitation frame

situationally evoked entity

slang

sluicing (transformational rule) (in semantics)

social deixis (in pragmatics)

social dialect

social meaning

solidarity (in pragmatics)

solutionhood relation

sonorant (in phonology or phonetics)

sonority scale

source as a participant role

source as a semantic role

source domain

spatial deixis (in pragmatics)

speaker

specialized figurative text

specification relation

specificity

spectrogram (in phonology or phonetics)

spectrograph (in phonology or phonetics)

speculative mood

speech act (in pragmatics)

speech event (in pragmatics)

spoonerism (in phonology or phonetics)

spreading (in phonology or phonetics)

standard implicature (in pragmatics)

standard variety

state of the glottis (in phonology or phonetics)

statement

stative verb

status

stem

stem modification

still tense

stop (in phonology or phonetics)

strength of illocutionary point

strength of sincerity conditions (in pragmatics)

stress (in phonology or phonetics)

stricture (in phonology or phonetics)

strong epistemic qualification

structural analysis (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

structural metaphor

structural presupposition (in pragmatics)

structure building rule (in phonology or phonetics)

stylistics (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

subcategorization

subentry in a lexical database

subgroup

subject

subject complement

subject movement transformational grammar

subject raising transformational grammar

subject-aux inversion transformational grammar

subjunctive mood

subordinate clause

subordinating conjunction

subordination

subscript (in phonology or phonetics)

substance metaphor

substantive

substantive rule of synonym (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

subtraction

success of fit

suffix

suffixation

summary relation

summons-answer sequence

superessive case

superior status

superscript (in phonology or phonetics)

supplemental information in a definition

suppletion (in phonology or phonetics)

suprafix

suprasegmental

surface form (in phonology or phonetics)

surface structure

switch reference

switching pause

syllabic consonant

syllabic writing

syllabification

syllable (in phonology or phonetics)

syllable structure (in phonology or phonetics)

syllable weight (in phonology or phonetics)

syllepsis

symbolic usage

syncategorematic rule (in semantics)

synchrony

synecdoche

synonym lexical relation

synonymous

syntactic category

syntacti constituenthood transformational grammar

syntactic function

syntactic movement transformational grammar

syntagmatic lexical relation

syntax

synthetic assertion (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

system (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

T
"t" to "r" rule (in phonology or phonetics)

tag question

tag statement

tap (in phonology or phonetics)

target

target domain

tautosyllabic (in phonology or phonetics)

tautology (in pragmatics)

taxonomic system (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

temporal deixis (in pragmatics)

temporal relation

tense (in phonology or phonetics)

terminal cluster

text

text genre

textual function (in pragmatics)

textually evoked entity

thematic role transformational grammar

theme

thesaurus category

third person deixis

third turn repair

tier (in phonology or phonetics)

time as a semantic role

time deixis

timing slot (in phonology or phonetics)

token-reflexive deixis

tone

topic

trachea (in phonology or phonetics)

transcription

transformation

transition (in phonology or phonetics)

transition Relevance Place TRP (in pragmatics)

transitive verb

transitivity

translational equivalence

translative case

transverse

trial number

trill (in phonology or phonetics)

trisyllabic shortening (in phonology or phonetics)

trope

try-marker

turn (in pragmatics)

turn location

turn-taking (in pragmatics)

T/V distinction (in pragmatics)

twin-pan balance schema

two-place predication (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

typology

U
ultimate constituent

unbound root

unbound stem

unbounded deixis

underlying form (in phonology or phonetics)

underlying representation (in phonology or phonetics)

underspecification (in phonology or phonetics)

universal

universal quantifier (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

universal tendency

universally construed (in G. N. Leech's Semantics)

unproductive affix

unratified participant

unreleased (in phonology or phonetics)

unused entity

upgrade

usage type

utterance

utterance act

uvular (in phonology or phonetics)

V
valency

variable (in phonology or phonetics)

variety

velar (in phonology or phonetics)

velar softening (in phonology or phonetics)

velaric ingressive (in phonology or phonetics)

velum (in phonology or phonetics)

verb (Linguistics)

verb phrase

verb raising transformational grammar

verbal adjective

verbal noun

verbal particle

vertical deixis

verticality schema

visual evidential

vocal cord (in phonology or phonetics)

vocal tract (in phonology or phonetics)

vocative case

vocoid

voice (in phonology or phonetics)

voice bar (in phonology or phonetics)

voice onset time VOT (in phonology or phonetics)

voiceless vowel (in phonology or phonetics)

voicing (in phonology or phonetics)

volitive modality

vowel (in phonology or phonetics)

vowel backness (in phonology or phonetics)

vowel doubling

vowel harmony (in phonology or phonetics)

vowel height (in phonology or phonetics)

vowel length (in phonology or phonetics)

vowel modification (in phonology or phonetics)

vowel reduction (in phonology or phonetics)

vowel shift (in phonology or phonetics)

VP deletion (in semantics)

W
wave (in phonology or phonetics)

wave form (in phonology or phonetics)

weak epistemic qualification

wh-movement

whole presupposed proposition

whole-part lexical relation

wh-question

word

X
X' schema transformational grammar

Y
yes-no question

Z
zero

zero affix

zero anaphora (in pragmatics)

zero morph

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