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Cognate (1,006 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In historical linguistics, cognates or lexical cognates are sets of words that have been inherited in direct descent from an etymological ancestor in

Folk etymology (2,568 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Förstemann in 1852. Folk etymology is a productive process in historical linguistics, language change, and social interaction. Reanalysis of a word's history

Neologism (2,720 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In linguistics, a neologism (/niˈɒləˌdʒɪzəm/; also known as a coinage) is any relatively recent and isolated term, word, or phrase that nevertheless has

Phoneme (5,624 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In phonology and linguistics, a phoneme (/ˈfoʊniːm/) is a set of phones that can distinguish one word

Phrase (1,281 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

and its technical use in linguistics. In common usage, a phrase is usually a group of words with some special idiomatic meaning or other significance, such

Morphological derivation (953 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Morphological derivation, in linguistics, is the process of forming a new word from an existing word, often by adding a prefix or suffix, such as un-

Diminutive (532 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

French cygne (both: swan) ringlet from ring doggie from dog Affect (linguistics) Augmentative Comparison (grammar) Diminutives in Australian English

Formal semantics (natural language) (2,243 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

subfield of both linguistics and philosophy of language. It provides accounts of what linguistic expressions mean and how their meanings are composed from

Verb (2,582 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

verb-final languages, where attributive verb phrases act as relative clauses. Linguistics Adyghe verbs Arabic verbs Ancient Greek verbs Basque verbs Bulgarian

Text linguistics (3,111 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Text linguistics is a branch of linguistics that deals with texts as communication systems. Its original aims lay in uncovering and describing text grammars

Alien language (824 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

possibility for humans to recognize and translate them has been part of the linguistics and language studies courses, e.g., at the Bowling Green State University

Inflection (6,153 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

of Linguistics: Conjugation, Declension Lexicon of Linguistics: Base, Stem, Root Lexicon of Linguistics: Defective Paradigm Lexicon of Linguistics: Strong

Homonym (1,580 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In linguistics, homonyms are words which are either homographs—words that have the same spelling (regardless of pronunciation)—or homophones—words that

Flemish dialects (1,562 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the standard Dutch. Basic Dutch words can have a completely different meaning in Flemish or imply different context., comparable to the differences between

Complement (linguistics) (1,092 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

necessary to complete the meaning of a given expression. Complements are often also arguments (expressions that help complete the meaning of a predicate). In

Alien language (824 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

possibility for humans to recognize and translate them has been part of the linguistics and language studies courses, e.g., at the Bowling Green State University

Grapheme (1,309 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In linguistics, a grapheme is the smallest functional unit of a writing system. The word grapheme is derived from Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō) 'write'

Pidgin (1,773 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

vocabulary, words with only a specific meaning in the lexifier language may acquire a completely new (or additional) meaning in the pidgin. Pidgins have historically

Grammatical particle (2,053 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

(abbreviated PTCL) has a traditional meaning, as a part of speech that cannot be inflected, and a modern meaning, as a function word (functor) associated

Ferdinand de Saussure (6,454 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

developments in both linguistics and semiotics in the 20th century. He is widely considered one of the founders of 20th-century linguistics and one of two major

Terminology (1,343 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

specialized words and respective meanings in a particular field, and also the study of such terms and their use; the latter meaning is also known as terminology

Suffix (930 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word. Common examples are case endings, which indicate the grammatical case of

Holism (2,960 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

meaning of every word in the language. In scientific disciplines, reductionism is the opposing viewpoint to holism. But in the context of linguistics

Gloss (annotation) (1,030 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

is a brief notation, especially a marginal or interlinear one, of the meaning of a word or wording in a text. It may be in the language of the text or

Collocation (1,282 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In corpus linguistics, a collocation is a series of words or terms that co-occur more often than would be expected by chance. In phraseology, a collocation

Nonmanual feature (1,552 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

understand the meaning of the utterance (for example, an autistic person may not use any facial expressions but still get their meaning across clearly

Bound and free morphemes (719 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In linguistics, a bound morpheme is a morpheme (the elementary unit of morphosyntax) that can appear only as part of a larger expression, while a free

Grammatical modifier (1,207 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In linguistics, a modifier is an optional element in phrase structure or clause structure which modifies the meaning of another element in the structure

Sign language (13,875 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

concrete source and abstract target meaning. Because the concrete source is connected to two correspondences linguistics refer to metaphorical signs as "double

Sentence (linguistics) (1,429 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

In linguistics and grammar, a sentence is a linguistic expression, such as the English example "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." In traditional

Lexical item (768 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

of linguistics Set phrase Concerning types of lexical chunks, see M. Lewis (1997). William O'Grady (1998) introduced the catena unit to linguistics; others

Synonym (1,393 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Conference on Computational Linguistics – Volume 1. COLING '08. Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, US: Association for Computational Linguistics: 905–912. arXiv:0809

Language family (4,067 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

"family" reflects the tree model of language origination in historical linguistics, which makes use of a metaphor comparing languages to people in a biological

Conditional sentence (2,117 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

ISBN 978-0521431460. von Prince, Kilu (2019). "Counterfactuality and past" (PDF). Linguistics and Philosophy. 42 (6): 577–615. doi:10.1007/s10988-019-09259-6. S2CID 181778834

False cognate (940 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

'me' and 'thee'?" Historical Linguistics 1999: Selected Papers from the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Vancouver, 9–13 August 1999

Nirukta (1,556 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

while Nirukta focuses on linguistic analysis to help establish the proper meaning of the words, given the context they are used in. Yaska asserts that the

Lemmatization (710 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In computational linguistics, lemmatization is the algorithmic process of determining the lemma of a word based on its intended meaning. Unlike stemming

Romanization (4,055 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In linguistics, romanization or romanisation is the conversion of text from a different writing system to the Roman (Latin) script, or a system for doing

Language family (4,067 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

"family" reflects the tree model of language origination in historical linguistics, which makes use of a metaphor comparing languages to people in a biological

Perfect (grammar) (3,361 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Trask, Robert Lawrence (1993). A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics. Routledge. p. 204. ISBN 9780415086288. Dahl, 1985, p. 190. Michaelis

Patois (767 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

considered nonstandard, although the term is not formally defined in linguistics. As such, patois can refer to pidgins, creoles, dialects or vernaculars

Declension (2,533 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In linguistics, declension (verb: to decline) is the changing of the form of a word, generally to express its syntactic function in the sentence, by way

Dialect (7,063 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

FrancoAngeli. p. 35. ISBN 9788846439123. Crystal, David (2008). A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics (6 ed.). Blackwell Publishing. p. 142–144. ISBN 978-1-4051-5296-9

Nonce word (1,280 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

linguistics researchers and educators as tools to assess a learner's phonetic decoding ability, and the ability to infer the (hypothetical) meaning of

Anaphora (linguistics) (2,406 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

In linguistics, anaphora (/əˈnæfərə/) is the use of an expression whose interpretation depends upon another expression in context (its antecedent or postcedent)

Phone (phonetics) (693 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

branch of linguistics), a phone is any distinct speech sound or gesture, regardless of whether the exact sound is critical to the meanings of words. In

Language change (2,667 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

subfields of linguistics: historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, and evolutionary linguistics. Traditional theories of historical linguistics identify

Hapax legomenon (3,545 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In corpus linguistics, a hapax legomenon (/ˈhæpəks lɪˈɡɒmɪnɒn/ also /ˈhæpæks/ or /ˈheɪpæks/; pl. hapax legomena; sometimes abbreviated to hapax, plural

Word embedding (3,135 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Meaning. Vol. Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics.

Grammatical tense (5,465 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

by the category label T, which is the head of a TP (tense phrase). In linguistics, a tenseless language is a language that does not have a grammatical

Nahuatl (12,808 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sketches. Summer Institute of Linguistics Publications in Linguistics, 56. Dallas, TX: Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at

Abbreviation (4,213 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

An abbreviation (from Latin brevis, meaning "short") is a shortened form of a word or phrase, by any method. It may consist of a group of letters or words

Periphrasis (1,547 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

modern linguistics, the term periphrasis is typically used for examples like "more happy:" the use of one or more function words to express meaning that

Stress (linguistics) (4,774 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

[ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In linguistics, and particularly phonology, stress or accent is the relative emphasis

Reappropriation (3,812 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In linguistics, reappropriation, reclamation, or resignification is the cultural process by which a group reclaims words or artifacts that were previously

Deixis (3,410 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

BCE) added the specialized meaning point of reference, which is the sense in which the term is used in contemporary linguistics. Charles J. Fillmore used

Indo-European languages (10,128 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Indo-European family is significant to the field of historical linguistics as it possesses the second-longest recorded history of any known family

Synthetic language (2,931 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Comparison of inflection and derivation Lexicon of Linguistics: Inflection, Derivation Lexicon of Linguistics: Base, Stem, Root "Linguistic typology" (PDF)

Glottochronology (3,212 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

χρόνος time) is the part of lexicostatistics which involves comparative linguistics and deals with the chronological relationship between languages.: 131

Cant (language) (2,422 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

There are two main schools of thought on the origin of the word cant: In linguistics, the derivation is normally seen to be from the Irish word caint (older

Glottochronology (3,212 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

χρόνος time) is the part of lexicostatistics which involves comparative linguistics and deals with the chronological relationship between languages.: 131

Calque (1,248 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Look up calque in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In linguistics, a calque (/kælk/) or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language

Creole language (8,015 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

creology, is the study of creole languages and, as such, is a subfield of linguistics. Someone who engages in this study is called a creolist. The precise

Prothesis (linguistics) (1,011 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

In linguistics, prothesis (/ˈprɒθɪsɪs/; from post-classical Latin based on Ancient Greek: πρόθεσις próthesis 'placing before'), or less commonly prosthesis

Trope (literature) (1,283 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

dictionary. Linguistics portal Fantasy tropes Invariance principle Literary topos Meme Motif-Index of Folk-Literature Scheme (linguistics) Stereotype

Distributional semantics (1,532 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

linguistic items with similar distributions have similar meanings. The distributional hypothesis in linguistics is derived from the semantic theory of language

Isogloss (1,096 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

demarcate the differences between regional dialects of a language; in areal linguistics, in which they represent the extent of borrowing of features between

Tautology (language) (885 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

logical fallacy Platitude – Trite, prosaic, or cliché truism Redundancy (linguistics) – Information that is expressed more than once Tautophrase – Repetition

Phraseme (2,362 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

expression, idiomatic phrase, multiword expression (in computational linguistics), or idiom,[citation needed] is a multi-word or multi-morphemic utterance

Lexical verb (149 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In linguistics a lexical verb or main verb is a member of an open class of verbs that includes all verbs except auxiliary verbs. Lexical verbs typically

Semitic root (1,492 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

generally following specific patterns. It is a peculiarity of Semitic linguistics that a large majority of these consonantal roots are triliterals (although

Article (grammar) (3,589 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

was a bad decision. Indefinite noun phrases are widely studied within linguistics, in particular because of their ability to take exceptional scope. A

Noam Chomsky (18,414 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

known for his work in linguistics, political activism, and social criticism. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major

Definiteness (1,161 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In linguistics, definiteness is a semantic feature of noun phrases that distinguishes between referents or senses that are identifiable in a given context

Vietnamese language (12,232 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 2002, edited by Ratree Wayland et al. Canberra, Australia, 1–7. Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific

Allomorph (1,033 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In linguistics, an allomorph is a variant phonetic form of a morpheme, or, a unit of meaning that varies in sound and spelling without changing the meaning

Slang (3,186 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Glossary of jive talk Helsinki slang IsiNgqumo Joual Language game Lavender linguistics Lunfardo Meme Nadsat Pig Latin Polari Rotwelsch Shelta Thieves' cant

Languaculture (616 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Risager, Karen, Linguaculture, in Carol A. Chapelle ed. Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, Wiley 2012. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal0709

Agglutination (5,082 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In linguistics, agglutination is a morphological process in which words are formed by stringing together morphemes, each of which corresponds to a single

Error (2,248 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

speech in scholarly linguistics, but might be considered errors in prescriptivist contexts. See also Error analysis (linguistics). A gaffe is usually

Grammatical case (6,640 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

trigger, or absolutive case, whichever a language may have. Agreement (linguistics) Case hierarchy Declension Differential object marking Inflection List

Wasei-eigo (1,172 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

exist in standard English, or do not have the meanings that they have in standard English. In linguistics, they are classified as pseudo-loanwords or pseudo-anglicisms

Syllable (5,415 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

English words with one syllable Minor syllable Mora (linguistics) Phonology Pitch accent Stress (linguistics) Syllabary writing system Syllabic consonant Syllabification

Proto-Indo-European root (2,836 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

basic parts of words to carry a lexical meaning, so-called morphemes. PIE roots usually have verbal meaning like "to eat" or "to run". Roots never occurred

Fuzhou dialect (5,187 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

laypersons, this is colloquial usage and not recognised in academic linguistics. Like many other varieties of Chinese, the Fuzhou dialect is dominated

Agreement (linguistics) (4,152 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

In linguistics, agreement or concord (abbreviated agr) occurs when a word changes form depending on the other words to which it relates. It is an instance

Circular definition (1,545 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

either already know the meaning of the key term, or if the term to be defined is used in the definition itself. In linguistics, a circular definition is

Mahalo (223 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

mahalo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. "Mahalo" is a Hawaiian word meaning thanks, gratitude, admiration, praise, esteem, regards, or respects. According

Alternation (linguistics) (641 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

[ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In linguistics, an alternation is the phenomenon of a morpheme exhibiting variation

Tone (linguistics) (11,926 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning—that is, to distinguish or to inflect words. All oral languages use pitch

Newspeak (3,259 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

vocabulary; complete thoughts are reduced to simple terms of simplistic meaning. The political contractions of Newspeak — Ingsoc (English Socialism), Minitrue

Mahalo (223 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

mahalo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. "Mahalo" is a Hawaiian word meaning thanks, gratitude, admiration, praise, esteem, regards, or respects. According

Contraction (grammar) (3,691 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

and del (of the) for de el (not to be confused with a él, meaning to him, and de él, meaning his or, more literally, of him). Other contractions were common

Ordinal numeral (674 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In linguistics, ordinal numerals or ordinal number words are words representing position or rank in a sequential order; the order may be of size, importance

Natural language (561 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In neuropsychology, linguistics, and philosophy of language, a natural language or ordinary language is any language that occurs naturally in a human

Alternation (linguistics) (641 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

[ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In linguistics, an alternation is the phenomenon of a morpheme exhibiting variation

Circular definition (1,545 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

either already know the meaning of the key term, or if the term to be defined is used in the definition itself. In linguistics, a circular definition is

Grammatical number (23,270 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In linguistics, grammatical number is a feature of nouns, pronouns, adjectives and verb agreement that expresses count distinctions (such as "one", "two"

Cohesion (linguistics) (621 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

tend to repeat the same meaning. An example is the phrase "once upon a time". This is lexical cohesion. Coherence (linguistics) M.A.K. Halliday Systemic

Sensu (1,812 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sensu is a Latin word meaning "in the sense of". It is used in a number of fields including biology, geology, linguistics, semiotics, and law. Commonly

Asterisk (6,001 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

works.: 336 The meaning of the asterisk usage in specific linguistic works may go unelucidated so can be unclear.: 369 Linguistics sometimes uses double

Word-sense disambiguation (6,649 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

given the pervasive polysemy in natural language. In computational linguistics, it is an open problem that affects other computer-related writing, such

Linguistic turn (799 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Formal semantics (natural language) Historical turn Semiotics Structural linguistics "Philosophy of language". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2018-11-14

Constructed language (5,165 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

setting an added layer of realism; for experimentation in the fields of linguistics, cognitive science, and machine learning; for artistic creation; for

Double negative (5,836 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the same sentence. This is typically used to convey a different shade of meaning from a strictly positive sentence ("You're not unattractive" vs "You're

Michael Halliday (3,233 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

for meaning". For Halliday, language was a "meaning potential"; by extension, he defined linguistics as the study of "how people exchange meanings by 'languaging'"

Stephen Neale (855 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

about meaning, information, interpretation, and communication, and more generally about issues at the intersection of philosophy and linguistics. Neale

Lexicostatistics (1,519 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Lexicostatistics is a method of comparative linguistics that involves comparing the percentage of lexical cognates between languages to determine their

English language (22,941 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Phrases". In Aarts, Bas; McMahon, April (eds.). The Handbook of English Linguistics. Blackwell Publishing Ltd. ISBN 9781405164252. Abercrombie, D.; Daniels

Doublet (linguistics) (3,308 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

the same meaning is fairly obvious, the term is mostly used to characterize pairs of words that have diverged at least somewhat in meaning. For example

Gemination (4,582 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

"Mora-Based Temporal Adjustments in Japanese" (en). Colorado Research in Linguistics. 13. University of Colorado Boulder. p2 line 29. doi:10.25810/2ddh-9161

No worries (1,456 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Australian soap operas that aired on television in the United Kingdom. Linguistics experts are uncertain how the phrase became utilized in American English;

Notation system (1,054 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Look up notation system in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In linguistics and semiotics, a notation system is a system of graphics or symbols, characters

Mandarin Chinese (8,685 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

linguists may not recognize that the variants they speak are classified in linguistics as members of "Mandarin" (or so-called "Northern dialects") in a broader

Possessive (3,144 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

album, the Irish jockey's horse). For more examples, see Possession (linguistics) and English possessive § Semantics. Before the 18th century, the word

Rhyming slang (4,029 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

is thereafter implied),[page needed][page needed] making the origin and meaning of the phrase elusive to listeners not in the know.[page needed] The form

Expletive (123 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Expletive may refer to: Expletive (linguistics), a word or phrase that is not needed to express the basic meaning of the sentence Expletive pronoun, a

Equals sign (2,563 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Recorde. The etymology of the word equal is from the Latin word æqualis, as meaning 'uniform', 'identical', or 'equal', from æquus ('level', 'even', or 'just')

Langue and parole (1,100 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

dichotomy distinguished by Ferdinand de Saussure in his Course in General Linguistics. The French term langue ('[an individual] language') encompasses the

Cognitive semiotics (1,011 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Cognitive semiotics is the study model of meaning-making, applying methods and theories from semiotics, linguistics, psychology, cognitive science, computational

Classifier (linguistics) (6,139 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

grammar: Classificatory verbs Noun class Analytic language Determiner (linguistics) Comrie, Bernard; Haspelmath, Martin; Bickel, Balthasar (2008). "Leipzig

Protologism (1,169 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In linguistics, a protologism is a newly used or coined word, a nonce word, that has been repeated but not gained acceptance beyond its original users

Paralanguage (2,235 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Lee Smith, Charles F. Hockett (working with him on using descriptive linguistics as a model for paralanguage), Edward T. Hall developing proxemics, and

Yabem language (3,767 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

morphology: A focusschrift for Byron W. Bender, Pacific Linguistics 519, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, pp. 75–85, doi:10.15144/PL-519.75, ISBN 0-85883-485-5

Classifier (linguistics) (6,139 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

grammar: Classificatory verbs Noun class Analytic language Determiner (linguistics) Comrie, Bernard; Haspelmath, Martin; Bickel, Balthasar (2008). "Leipzig

Onomatopoeia (3,343 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

compound ὀνοματοποιία, onomatopoiía, meaning 'name-making', composed of ὄνομα, ónoma, meaning "name"; and ποιέω, poiéō, meaning "making". It is pronounced /ˌɒnəˌmætəˈpiːə

Grammatical aspect (8,145 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In linguistics, aspect is a grammatical category that expresses how a verbal action, event, or state, extends over time. For instance, perfective aspect

Mi'kmaq language (3,358 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

(1989). Two Basque Loanwords in Micmac. International Journal of American Linguistics Vol. 55, No. 2 (Apr., 1989), pp. 258–261 "Amqui (ville)" (in French)

Clade (1,774 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

term "clade" is also used with a similar meaning in other fields besides biology, such as historical linguistics; see Cladistics § In disciplines other

Gabacho (483 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

usage term retains the initial meaning, however, in other Hispanophone countries, the word gabacho acquired a meaning similar to the word guiri, in Spain

Parameter (2,921 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

more specific meanings within various disciplines, including mathematics, computer programming, engineering, statistics, logic, linguistics, and electronic

Verbosity (2,275 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

of ease with which a reader can understand written text Redundancy (linguistics) – Information that is expressed more than once Tachylalia – Extremely

Benjamin Lee Whorf (9,112 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

first became interested in linguistics. Originally, he analyzed Biblical texts, seeking to uncover hidden layers of meaning. Inspired by the esoteric work

Paraphyly (3,836 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

phylogenetics (a subfield of biology) and in the tree model of historical linguistics. Paraphyletic groups are identified by a combination of synapomorphies

Manang language (2,493 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

language spoken in Nepal. Native speakers refer to the language as ŋyeshaŋ, meaning 'our language'. Manang and its most closely related languages are often

Sound symbolism (1,967 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In linguistics, sound symbolism is the perceptual similarity between speech sounds and concept meanings. It is a form of linguistic iconicity. For example

Semantic role labeling (547 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics - ACL '00. Hong Kong: Association for Computational Linguistics: 512–520. doi:10.3115/1075218.1075283

Arabic grammar (6,803 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

description of Arabic grammar, suggesting to follow trends in Western linguistics instead. Arabic language List of Arabic dictionaries I‘rab Literary Arabic

Bengali language (9,579 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

(9th ed.). Chambers. 2003. ISBN 0-550-10105-5. Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student's Handbook, Edinburgh "The World Factbook". www.cia.gov. Central

Tolkāppiyam (3,816 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

verifiable evidence in its favor, and the available evidence based on linguistics, epigraphy, Sangam literature and other Indian texts suggest a much later

Initial-stress-derived noun (1,195 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the matrix; the two-syllable noun and the four-syllable noun differ in meaning in that one is the result and the other is the process. Similar remarks

Swiss French (757 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

amener, to lead). The marginal phoneme /ɑ/ is usually pronounced [ɑː], meaning pattes (paws) and pâtes (pasta) are differentiated. Similar to the process

Nadahup languages (1,203 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

article. Campbell, Lyle. (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509427-1

Incorporation (linguistics) (5,022 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

In linguistics, incorporation is a phenomenon by which a grammatical category, such as a verb, forms a compound with its direct object (object incorporation)

Adjunct (grammar) (2,249 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

In linguistics, an adjunct is an optional, or structurally dispensable, part of a sentence, clause, or phrase that, if removed or discarded, will not

Barbarism (linguistics) (699 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

mainly for the written language. With no accepted technical meaning in modern linguistics, the term is little used by contemporary descriptive scientists

Sound change (2,331 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

§ Brackets and transcription delimiters. A sound change, in historical linguistics, is a change in the pronunciation of a language. A sound change can involve

MP (922 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

languages of Southeast Asia Minimalist program, a syntactic theory in linguistics Madhya Pradesh, a state in India Manipur Pradesh, a term used to refer

Comparison (grammar) (3,494 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

very large degree of a particular quality (called elative in Semitic linguistics). Other languages (e.g. English) can express lesser degree, e.g. beautiful

Plus–minus sign (1,609 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the black player. Other meanings occur in other fields, including medicine, engineering, chemistry, electronics, linguistics, and philosophy. A version

Clitic (4,961 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

forms in English Weak pronoun Crystal, David. A First Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1980. Print. SIL International

Gong language (866 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Gong language (also 'Ugong, Ugong, Lawa or Ugawng, with U- meaning 'person') is an endangered Tibeto-Burman language of Western Thailand, spoken in

Analysis (2,509 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

effects of policy decisions or, more generally, influence policy decisions Linguistics explores individual languages and language in general. It breaks language

Standard Chinese (7,768 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

analytic language, albeit with many compound words. In the context of linguistics, the dialect has been labeled Standard Northern Mandarin or Standard

Leonard Bloomfield (3,680 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

1949) was an American linguist who led the development of structural linguistics in the United States during the 1930s and the 1940s. He is considered

Pro (269 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Prostitute, slang abbreviation Public relations officer PRO (linguistics) ("big PRO") pro (linguistics) ("little pro") Partido Progresista de Chile, (Progressive

Ideophone (1,686 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the special relationship between form and meaning exhibited by ideophones. In the discipline of linguistics, ideophones have sometimes been overlooked

Pejorative (738 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Latin past participle stem of peiorare, meaning "to make worse", from peior "worse". In historical linguistics, the process of an inoffensive word becoming

American Sign Language (8,137 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the Wayback Machine, Studies in linguistics: Occasional papers (No. 8). Buffalo: Dept. of Anthropology and Linguistics, University of Buffalo. "American

Proto-Indo-European verbs (7,752 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

reconstructed meanings of the corresponding forms in PIE and the terms used broadly in linguistics to refer to aspects with these meanings. In traditional

Content word (331 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Content words, in linguistics, are words that possess semantic content and contribute to the meaning of the sentence in which they occur. In a traditional

Syntagmatic analysis (523 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

is meant. This understanding leads to the opportunity to consider the linguistics of texts and language in a wider variety ways. Thwaite, Davis, and Mules

Proto-Tibeto-Burman language (4,030 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the case of Bai. Language and Linguistics Monograph Series B: Frontiers in Linguistics III. Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica. ISBN 986-00-5228-X

Image schema (2,346 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

cognitive linguistics; by Rudolf Arnheim in Visual Thinking; by the collection From Perception to Meaning: Image Schemas in Cognitive Linguistics edited

Auxiliary verb (2,688 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

auxiliary verb (abbreviated aux) is a verb that adds functional or grammatical meaning to the clause in which it occurs, so as to express tense, aspect, modality

William Lycan (868 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

University Press, 1988), xiii + 230 pp. Modality and Meaning (Kluwer Academic Publishing, Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy series, 1994), xxii + 335 pp.

Or (502 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

basis for releasing someone awaiting trial without bail '0r' (zero r), meaning "no roods", in old measurements of land area And (disambiguation) OAR (disambiguation)

Social semiotics (1,675 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

can explain meaning-making in a social context. Linguistic theorist, Michael Halliday, introduced the term ‘social semiotics’ into linguistics, when he used

Internationalism (164 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

and 1930s Internationalism (linguistics), loanwords that occur translingually with the same or at least similar meaning and etymology Internationalism

Affix (905 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In linguistics, an affix is a morpheme that is attached to a word stem to form a new word or word form. The main two categories are derivational and inflectional

Coreference (1,446 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In linguistics, coreference, sometimes written co-reference, occurs when two or more expressions refer to the same person or thing; they have the same

Salishan languages (3,428 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

American Linguistics 71.1, January 2005. Davis, Henry. and Matthewson, Lisa. (2009). Issues in Salish Syntax and Semantics. Language and Linguistics Compass

Sentence clause structure (1,933 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

for "a very long sentence, especially one lacking order or coherence". Linguistics portal Comma splice Huddleston, Rodney (1984). Introduction to the Grammar

Modal particle (598 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In linguistics, modal particles are always uninflected words, and are a type of grammatical particle. They are used to indicate how the speaker thinks

Prime (symbol) (1,689 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

used to designate units and for other purposes in mathematics, science, linguistics and music. Although the characters differ little in appearance from those

Aspirated consonant (2,251 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Kelabit Voiced Aspirates: A Historical Hypothesis Revisited", Oceanic Linguistics 45:311 Tranel, Bernard (1987). The sounds of French: an introduction

Teeline Shorthand (1,085 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

personal adaptations for their own use. Certain letters also have specific meanings as well as their traditional alphabetic value, as shown in the table below

Heteronym (linguistics) (999 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Ambiguity". Proceedings of the 36th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics: 176. "« Oignon » ou « ognon » ? [orthographe] | La langue française "

Preverb (1,137 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Although not widely accepted in linguistics, the term preverb is used in Caucasian (including all three families: Northwest Caucasian, Northeast Caucasian

Mad Gab (200 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

points the players score. This game uses phonetics, which is a branch of linguistics. This game is a test for the human brain to process sounds based on simpler

Scalar implicature (1,193 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

implicature, is an implicature that attributes an implicit meaning beyond the explicit or literal meaning of an utterance, and which suggests that the utterer

Arab sign-language family (1,432 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

cross-linguistic perspective: (University of Amsterdam, 2008)". Sign Language & Linguistics. 12 (1): 101–110. doi:10.1075/sll.12.1.06hen. Padden, Carol. 2010. "Sign

Catena (linguistics) (3,566 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

In linguistics, a catena (English pronunciation: /kəˈtiːnə/, plural catenas or catenae; from Latin for "chain") is a unit of syntax and morphology, closely

Languages constructed by J. R. R. Tolkien (4,020 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Linguistic Fellowship's Tolkienian Linguistics FAQ The Elvish Linguistic Fellowship's Resources for Tolkienian Linguistics The Tolkien language mailing list

Hedge (linguistics) (1,720 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

In the linguistic sub-fields of applied linguistics and pragmatics, a hedge is a word or phrase used in a sentence to express ambiguity, probability,

Ligature (writing) (7,074 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

2014. Erickson, Britta (2001). The Art of Xu Bing: Words Without Meaning, Meaning Without Words (Asian Art & Culture). Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur

Mutatis mutandis (1,104 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

mentioned. Mutatis mutandis is still used in law, economics, mathematics, linguistics and philosophy. In particular, in logic, it is encountered when discussing

Head (linguistics) (1,394 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

In linguistics, the head or nucleus of a phrase is the word that determines the syntactic category of that phrase. For example, the head of the noun phrase

Recontextualisation (1,040 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

texts, signs, and meaning from its original context. More importantly, recontextualisation has been studied within the field of linguistics and inter-disciplinary

List of language regulators (980 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

prescriptive dictionaries, which purport to officiate and prescribe the meaning of words and pronunciations. A language regulator may also have a more

Diachrony and synchrony (949 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

a moment in time without taking its history into account. Synchronic linguistics aims at describing a language at a specific point of time, often the

Postessive case (137 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In linguistics, the postessive case (abbreviated POSTE) is a noun case that indicates position behind something. This case is found in Northeast Caucasian

Horpa language (2,034 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Validating the rGyalrongic Subgroup in Qiangic" (PDF). Language and Linguistics. 1 (2): 211–232. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-04-15. Retrieved

William Lycan (868 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

University Press, 1988), xiii + 230 pp. Modality and Meaning (Kluwer Academic Publishing, Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy series, 1994), xxii + 335 pp.

Free variation (745 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In linguistics, free variation is the phenomenon of two (or more) sounds or forms appearing in the same environment without a change in meaning and without

Textual entailment (1,454 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

datasets, as follows: XNLI FarsTail OCNLI SICK-NL IndoNLI Entailment (linguistics) Inference engine Semantic reasoner Fuzzy logic Ido Dagan, Oren Glickman

Expression (331 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Expression may refer to: Expression (linguistics), a word, phrase, or sentence Expression (mathematics), a formula that

Outline of communication (586 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

communication Writing Social Network Communication studies Cognitive linguistics Conversation analysis Crisis communication Discourse analysis Environmental

shorthand for formal/informal style, although this is an aging definition. Linguistics textbooks may use the term tenor instead, but increasingly prefer the

Thematic relation (2,076 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In certain theories of linguistics, thematic relations, also known as semantic roles, are the various roles that a noun phrase may play with respect to

Pleonasm (7,708 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

with syntactic pleonasm, a more important phenomenon for theoretical linguistics. It usually takes one of two forms: Overlap or prolixity. Overlap: One

Value (semiotics) (1,217 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

linguist Ferdinand de Saussure, for example, the content of a sign in linguistics is ultimately determined and delimited not by its internal content, but

Filler (linguistics) (2,667 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

In linguistics, a filler, filled pause, hesitation marker or planner (sometimes called crutches) is a sound or word that participants in a conversation

Loaded language (937 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Thought-terminating cliché Truth-bearer Type–token distinction Variation (linguistics) Weston 2000, p. 6. Murray & Kujundzic 2005, p. 90. Lavender, Larry (1996)

Chomsky hierarchy (1,291 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

hierarchy) in the fields of formal language theory, computer science, and linguistics, is a containment hierarchy of classes of formal grammars. A formal grammar

Exceptional case-marking (1,011 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Exceptional case-marking (ECM), in linguistics, is a phenomenon in which the subject of an embedded infinitival verb seems to appear in a superordinate

Tabeguache Peak (455 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

specialized in Native American and South Asian languages and descriptive linguistics it is pronounced "TAB-uh-wahch" (/tæbəwɑːtʃ/ ). According to Mountaineer

Stochastic (3,333 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

seemingly random changes in financial markets as well as in medicine, linguistics, music, media, colour theory, botany, manufacturing, and geomorphology

Adnyamathanha language (955 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the Atʸnʸamat̪an̪a people, with grammatical notes. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. Bibliography of Adnyamathanha resources Archived 18 May 2015 at the

Construct state (2,189 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

("woman, wife") vs. nocihuāuh ("my wife", prefix no- "my"). Compound (linguistics) Definiteness Hans Wehr, Dictionary of Modern Standard Arabic: (ضيف)

Recontextualisation (1,040 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

texts, signs, and meaning from its original context. More importantly, recontextualisation has been studied within the field of linguistics and inter-disciplinary

Injunctive mood (323 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Motilal Banarsidass Publ. ISBN 978-81-208-1767-8. Beekes, Robert S.P. (1995). Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (PDF). John Benjamins. p. 273. v t e

Serbian language (4,509 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

language? Evidence from a Translation Study" (PDF). Journal of Slavic Linguistics. 18 (2): 181–219. ISSN 1068-2090. Archived from the original (PDF) on

Aorist (2,750 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Linguistics, Walter de Gruyter, 2003, ISBN 3-11-017433-2, pp. 173–176. Teffeteller (2006). "Ancient Greek". Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd ed

Optical braille recognition (716 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

in a scan or image of the page. Many documents are printed inter-point, meaning they are double-sided. As such, the depressions of the braille of one side

Type–token distinction (766 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

type is. The distinction is important in disciplines such as logic, linguistics, metalogic, typography and computer programming. The type–token distinction

Determiner (1,332 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

pronouns into a single class. For further information, see Pronoun § Linguistics. Distributive determiners, also called distributive adjectives, consider

Grammatical person (865 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In linguistics, grammatical person is the grammatical distinction between deictic references to participant(s) in an event; typically, the distinction

Language interpretation (6,578 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

of unity in the military force. For an historical example, see also Linguistics and translations in the Austro-Hungarian Army. A sign language interpreter

Interjection (1,978 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

bound by context, meaning that their interpretation is largely dependent on the time and place at which they are uttered. In linguistics, interjections can

Ravula language (219 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

It is classified under the category Malayalam languages in both the linguistics and the Census of India. However their language exhibits a number of

Homograph (696 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

(Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs). Berlin and New York: de Gruyter Mouton. pp. 218–220. ISBN 978-3-11-012324-1. The two meanings were later

Kuot language (1,082 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. Vol. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton

Formalism (208 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

than the judiciary Formalism (linguistics) Scientific formalism Formalism (philosophy), that there is no transcendent meaning to a discipline other than

Scope (formal semantics) (1,834 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

De dicto and de re Generalized quantifier Logical form (linguistics) Quantifier (linguistics) Type shifter Heim, Irene; Kratzer, Angelika (1998). Semantics

Linguistics and the Book of Mormon (6,424 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

1983, p. 39. Packham, Richard. "A Linguist Looks at Mormonism: Notes on linguistics problems in Mormonism". A Linguist Looks at Mormonism, More Greek Names

Anthropological theories of value (629 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

biases inherent in the principles of modern economics. Anthropological linguistics is a related field that looks at the terms we use to describe economic

Branching (linguistics) (1,607 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

In linguistics, branching refers to the shape of the parse trees that represent the structure of sentences. Assuming that the language is being written

Cuban Sign Language (724 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

create distinct signs and meanings. There is a distinct way movement, which can be internal or external, denotes a certain meaning in Cuban Sign Language

Cuban Sign Language (724 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

create distinct signs and meanings. There is a distinct way movement, which can be internal or external, denotes a certain meaning in Cuban Sign Language

Japhetic theory (839 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In linguistics, the Japhetic theory of Soviet linguist Nikolay Yakovlevich Marr (1864–1934) postulated that the Kartvelian languages of the Caucasus area

Theta role (2,147 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Morphosyntactic alignment Syntax‐semantics interface Thematic relations Valency (linguistics) "Theta Roles". www.sfu.ca. Retrieved 2023-05-20. Baker, Mark (1988)

Arbitrariness (1,053 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

is what imbues meaning to a given semiosis (any activity, conduct, or process that involves signs, including the production of meaning) or sign. A logical

Mesoamerican language area (1,173 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

language register Linguistic areas of the Americas Mesoamerica Areal linguistics Mesoamerican languages by Juan Hasler in a paper called "Una Lingüistica

Sonorant (713 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Old Irish had one of the most complex sonorant systems recorded in linguistics, with 12 coronal sonorants alone. Coronal laterals, nasals, and rhotics

Proto-human language (2,426 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The concept is speculative and not amenable to analysis in historical linguistics. It presupposes a monogenetic origin of language, i.e. the derivation

Scope (formal semantics) (1,834 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

De dicto and de re Generalized quantifier Logical form (linguistics) Quantifier (linguistics) Type shifter Heim, Irene; Kratzer, Angelika (1998). Semantics

Conventionalism (1,117 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Bhaṭṭa.[citation needed] It has been the standard position of modern linguistics since Ferdinand de Saussure's l'arbitraire du signe, but there have always

Noun class (2,706 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In linguistics, a noun class is a particular category of nouns. A noun may belong to a given class because of the characteristic features of its referent

Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary (3,398 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

modelled on Chinese characters) History of writing in Vietnam Stratum (linguistics) Nguyễn (1997), p. 79. DeFrancis (1977), p. 8. Maspero (1912), p. 5.

Terminology of homosexuality (3,665 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the Greek prefix homo- meaning 'same' (as distinguished from the Latin root homo meaning 'human') and the Latin root sex meaning 'sex'. The first known

American English (9,042 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

as lacking noticeably local, ethnic or cultural markers is known in linguistics as General American; it covers a fairly uniform accent continuum native

Counterfactual conditional (5,446 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

semantics proposed by Angelika Kratzer is often taken as the standard within linguistics. However, there are numerous possible worlds approaches on the market

Hypostasis (linguistics) (191 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

In linguistics, a hypostasis (from the Greek word ὑπόστασις meaning foundation, base or that which stands behind) is a relationship between a name and

Gentile (4,488 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

specialist uses of the word gentile in English (particularly in linguistics) still carry this meaning of "relating to a people or nation." The development of

Injunctive mood (323 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Motilal Banarsidass Publ. ISBN 978-81-208-1767-8. Beekes, Robert S.P. (1995). Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (PDF). John Benjamins. p. 273. v t e

Susan Gass (704 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

article, published in Applied Linguistics in 1985, entitled Non-native/Non-native Conversations: A Model for Negotiation of Meaning. The article, co-written

Accent (sociolinguistics) (3,954 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

1996). Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 1996: Linguistics, Language Acquisition, and Language Variation: Current Trends

Slang dictionary (562 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

formal usage, usually including information given for each word, including meaning, pronunciation, and etymology. It can provide definitions on a range of

Opposite (semantics) (1,839 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

antonym also has other more restricted meanings. Graded (or gradable) antonyms are word pairs whose meanings are opposite and which lie on a continuous

Mora (linguistics) (1,757 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

ISBN 978-3-11-085479-4. Hogg 1992, p. 96. Crystal, David (2008). A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics 6th ed. Blackwell Publishing. doi:10.1002/9781444302776

Lexical similarity (585 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In linguistics, lexical similarity is a measure of the degree to which the word sets of two given languages are similar. A lexical similarity of 1 (or

Saltillo (linguistics) (523 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In Mexican linguistics, saltillo (Spanish, meaning "little skip") is the word for a glottal stop consonant

Ornative case (179 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In linguistics, the ornative case is a noun case that means "endowed with" or "supplied with". This case is found in Dumi, which marks it by the suffix

Indo-European ablaut (3,501 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

symbols instead of Unicode combining characters and Latin characters. In linguistics, the Indo-European ablaut (/ˈæblaʊt/ AB-lowt, from German Ablaut pronounced

Empty category (4,575 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In linguistics, an empty category, which may also be referred to as a covert category, is an element in the study of syntax that does not have any phonological

Shuowen Jiezi (2,700 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

language as reflected in the Shuowen duruo glosses", Journal of Chinese Linguistics, no. 6, pp. 27–75 Creamer, Thomas B. I. (1989), "Shuowen Jiezi and Textual

Sulka language (1,618 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. Vol. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton

Vowel length (3,555 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In linguistics, vowel length is the perceived length of a vowel sound: the corresponding physical measurement is duration. In some languages vowel length

Participle (6,064 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In linguistics, a participle (from Latin participium 'a sharing, partaking'; abbr. PTCP) is a nonfinite verb form that has some of the characteristics

Vṛddhi (598 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

vowel gradation can be observed as follows: In modern Indo-European linguistics it is used in Pāṇini's sense, but not restricted to Sanskrit but applicable

Chepang language (665 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Morphology of the Verb in Chepang. Melbourne: Pacific Linguistics. p. 1. The Chepang Language - Linguistics research and language documentation - The Leopard

Ubuntu philosophy (5,629 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ubuntu (Zulu pronunciation: [ùɓúntʼù]) (meaning humanity in Bantu) describes a set of closely related African-origin value systems that emphasize the

Influence of Arabic on other languages (3,218 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

(2017-03-29), "Berber-Arabic Language Contact", Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics, doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.232, ISBN 978-0-19-938465-5,

Cratylus (dialogue) (2,431 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

through the lens of modern comparative linguistics, is unknown, but has carried a folk etymology since antiquity as meaning "The Unseen One". Modern linguists

Pwo Karen languages (203 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Karen. In PYU Working Papers in Linguistics 5, Audra Phillips (ed.). Chiang Mai, Thailand: Payap University Linguistics Department. Kato, Atsuhiko. 2009

WordNet (4,624 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the Association for Computational Linguistics joint with the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-ACL 2006), Sydney, Australia

SIL International (3,380 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

SIL International (formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics) is an evangelical Christian nonprofit organization whose main purpose is to

Miwok languages (543 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Miwok Texts with Linguistic Sketch". International Journal of American Linguistics 13:31-46. Freeland, Lucy Shepherd. 1951. Language of the Sierra Miwok

Karuk language (2,192 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Northwestern California. The name ‘Karuk’ is derived from the Karuk word káruk, meaning “upriver”.: 397 Karuk is classified as severely endangered by UNESCO with

Participle (6,064 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In linguistics, a participle (from Latin participium 'a sharing, partaking'; abbr. PTCP) is a nonfinite verb form that has some of the characteristics

Polysynthetic language (4,679 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the Greek roots poly meaning "many" and synthesis meaning "placing together". In linguistics a word is defined as a unit of meaning that can stand alone

Discourse (2,057 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

theory often studies discourse as a window into power. Within theoretical linguistics, discourse is understood more narrowly as linguistic information exchange

Vṛddhi (598 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

vowel gradation can be observed as follows: In modern Indo-European linguistics it is used in Pāṇini's sense, but not restricted to Sanskrit but applicable

Transitive verb (1,618 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

(2007). "A typology of tritransitives: alignment types and motivations". Linguistics. 45 (3). Germany: Walter de Gruyter: 453–508. doi:10.1515/LING.2007.015

Deponent verb (1,147 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In linguistics, a deponent verb is a verb that is active in meaning but takes its form from a different voice, most commonly the middle or passive. A deponent

Predicate (grammar) (1,967 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

The term predicate is used in two ways in linguistics and its subfields. The first defines a predicate as everything in a standard declarative sentence

N400 (neuroscience) (3,060 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

as recent context, and accessing a word's meaning in long term memory) that work together to create meaning from the information available in the current

Nomen nescio (317 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

case means nomen nominandum – "the name is to be announced". Thus, the meaning is different from the above definition and is the same as TBD (to be decided)

Lemma (morphology) (1,401 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

but the Cassell does. Lemmas or word stems are used often in corpus linguistics for determining word frequency. In that usage, the specific definition

Bilingual pun (454 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

that has the same meaning, or an opposite meaning. A bilingual pun involves a word from one language which has the same or similar meaning in another language's

Andative and venitive (1,221 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In linguistics, andative and venitive (abbreviated AND and VEN) are a type of verbal deixis: verb forms which indicate 'going' or 'coming' motion, respectively

Wagiman language (4,330 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Region of the Northern Territory. The Wagiman language is notable within linguistics for its complex system of verbal morphology, which remains under-investigated

Aryan (9,963 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

43. Orel 2003, p. 23. Antonsen, Elmer H. (2002). Runes and Germanic Linguistics. Walter de Gruyter. p. 127. ISBN 978-3-11-017462-5. Duchesne-Guillemin

Experimental language (1,619 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

An experimental language is a constructed language designed for linguistics research, often on the relationship between language and thought. One particular

Transcription into Chinese characters (5,603 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

language. Transcription is distinct from translation into Chinese whereby the meaning of a foreign word is communicated in Chinese. Since English classes are

Space (punctuation) (3,043 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

example, Unicode U+0020 is the "normal" space character, but U+00A0 adds the meaning that a new line should not be started there, while U+2003 represents a

Desiderative mood (322 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In linguistics, a desiderative (abbreviated DESI or DES) form is one that has the meaning of "wanting to X". Desiderative forms are often verbs, derived

Kurgan hypothesis (3,812 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Indo-European origins was an interdisciplinary synthesis of archaeology and linguistics. The Kurgan model of Indo-European origins identifies the Pontic–Caspian

Synaeresis (1,058 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

[ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In linguistics, synaeresis (/sɪˈnɛrəsɪs/; also spelled syneresis) is a phonological

Dom (407 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

domain of a function Dom (church), cognate with the Italian term duomo, meaning a collegiate church or cathedral Dom (title), a title of respect, derived

Fårömål dialect (495 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

At the same time is the intonation (linguistics) a little closer to Swedish. Fastlande has the literal meaning of 'mainland'. Oliver, Niel (2021). The

Recursive grammar (314 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

on Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL '02), Stroudsburg, PA, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 112–119, doi:10.3115/1073083

Affect (linguistics) (708 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

In linguistics, affect is an attitude or emotion that a speaker brings to an utterance. Affects such as sarcasm, contempt, dismissal, distaste, disgust

Kankanaey language (1,472 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Features in Kankanaey. Philippine Journal of Linguistics Vol. 6, No. 2: Summer Institute of Linguistics. pp. 23–30.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location

Analytic language (814 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

suffix syntax similar to Turkish. For example: Mashinhashunra niga mikardam meaning 'I was looking at their cars'. Breaking down mashin+ha+shun+ra (car+s+their+at)

Elision (4,047 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In linguistics, an elision or deletion is the omission of one or more sounds (such as a vowel, a consonant, or a whole syllable) in a word or phrase.

Boukólos rule (417 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

consonants Beekes, Robert Stephen Paul (2011). Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An Introduction. John Benjamins Publishing. ISBN 978-90-272-1185-9.

Thorn (letter) (1,482 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

represent the sound [ð], as in the word "verþa", which is now spelt verða (meaning "to become") in modern Icelandic or normalized orthography. Þ was originally

Nafsan language (5,975 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Conference on Austronesian Linguistics: proceedings. Fascicle 2: eastern Austronesian. (Pacific Linguistics Series) Department of Linguistics, Research School of

A (disambiguation) (1,645 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

to 100 square metres; redirects to hectare) atto- (a-), the SI prefix meaning 10−18 Ampere (A), unit of electric current ångström (Å) a unit of length

Kankanaey language (1,472 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Features in Kankanaey. Philippine Journal of Linguistics Vol. 6, No. 2: Summer Institute of Linguistics. pp. 23–30.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location

Afrikaans (8,910 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

(2002). Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2000: Linguistics, Language and the Professions: Education, Journalism, Law, Medicine

Nafsan language (5,975 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Conference on Austronesian Linguistics: proceedings. Fascicle 2: eastern Austronesian. (Pacific Linguistics Series) Department of Linguistics, Research School of

Stratum (linguistics) (2,944 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

In linguistics, a stratum (Latin for "layer") or strate is a historical layer of language that influences or is influenced by another language through

Word formation (669 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In linguistics, word formation is an ambiguous term that can refer to either: the processes through which words can change (i.e. morphology), or the creation

Metapragmatics (519 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In linguistics, metapragmatics is the study of how the effects and conditions of language use themselves become objects of discourse. The term is commonly

Decipherment (221 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

is helpful in verifying hypothesized decipherments. Language portal Linguistics portal Cuneiform Egyptian hieroglyphs Kharoshthi Linear B Mayan Staveless

Qabiao language (594 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics (IsCLL-14). Taipei: Academia Sinica. 麻栗坡县铁厂乡董渡村委会新民寨自然村 See Proto-Tai

Blend word (5,864 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In linguistics, a blend—sometimes known, perhaps more narrowly, as a blend word, lexical blend, portmanteau (/pɔːrtˈmæntoʊ/ port-MAN-toh or /ˌpɔːr(t)mænˈtoʊ/

Biolinguistics (8,917 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

interdisciplinary as it is related to various fields such as biology, linguistics, psychology, anthropology, mathematics, and neurolinguistics to explain

Recursion (3,644 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

of itself. Recursion is used in a variety of disciplines ranging from linguistics to logic. The most common application of recursion is in mathematics

Indigenization (1,175 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

it carries no negative connotations and does not imply any underlying meaning. Indigenization is seen as the process of changing someone to a person

Studies in Words (234 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

English language which have changed their meanings often quite widely throughout the centuries. The meanings in the predecessor languages are also part

Balkan sprachbund (4,888 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

notion of “Balkan linguistics,” saying that one can talk about “relationships of borrowings, of influences, but not about Balkan linguistics”. The term "Balkan

Hopi language (3,535 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

L. (eds.), The life of language: Papers in linguistics in honor of William Bright, Trends in linguistics: Studies and monographs, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter

Khmer language (8,566 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student's Handbook, Edinburgh David A. Smyth, Judith Margaret Jacob (1993). Cambodian Linguistics, Literature and History:

Apocope (567 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

ἀπο- (apo-) "away from" and κόπτειν (kóptein) "to cut". In historical linguistics, apocope is often the loss of an unstressed vowel. Latin mare → Portuguese

Mayan languages (9,280 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jessica; Henderson, Robert (2015). "Introduction to Mayan Linguistics" (PDF). Language and Linguistics Compass. Bolles, David (2003) [1997]. "Combined Dictionary–Concordance

Proto-Oceanic language (1,180 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

less coincides with the Lapita culture. The methodology of comparative linguistics, together with the relative homogeneity of Oceanic languages, make it

Passive voice (2,692 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

spite of his advice to avoid it as much as possible". In the field of linguistics, the term passive is applied to a wide range of grammatical structures

Wiyot language (3,575 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Press. Campell, Lynn (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America. New York City: Oxford University Press. ""Rou Soulatlouy"

Sheng slang (1,267 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

(Eds), Selected Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, 77–85. Bosire, Mokaya. 2006. Hybrid languages: The case of Sheng. In

Scrambling (linguistics) (2,112 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

formulated using a variety of different word orders without any change in meaning. Scrambling often results in a discontinuity since the scrambled expression

Thompson language (520 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

categories are not prescriptive of lexical categories. Work in Functional linguistics suggests that other factors beyond morphological evidence code lexical

Nostratic languages (3,468 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

(1998). Historical Linguistics: An Introduction. The MIT Press. p. 311. ISBN 978-0262518499. Campbell, Lyle (2013). Historical linguistics : an introduction

Voiced palatal approximant (2,145 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ian; Precoda, Kristin (1990). Updating UPSID. Vol. 74. Department of Linguistics, UCLA. pp. 104–111. Moran, Steven; McCloy, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Huastec

Kra–Dai languages (3,481 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

been used by the majority of specialists working on Southeast Asian linguistics, including Norquest (2007), Pittayaporn (2009), Baxter & Sagart (2014)

Tunisian Arabic (16,461 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

million speakers as Tūnsi, [ˈtuːnsi] "Tunisian" or Derja (Arabic: الدارجة; meaning "common or everyday dialect") to distinguish it from Modern Standard Arabic

Tauya language (798 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Madang Province, Papua New Guinea by approximately 350 people. The Linguistics Department at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada, has Tauya

Omniglot (469 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

"Omniglot" comes from the Latin prefix omnis (meaning "all") and the Greek root γλωσσα (glossa, meaning "tongue"). The website was launched by British

Lakes Plain languages (1,634 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

languages of Irian Jaya. In Franklin, K. (ed). Papers in Papuan Linguistics No. 2. Pacific Linguistics: Canberra. ; (2) Clouse, D.A. 1993. Languages of the Western

Mediated reference theory (256 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

reference Descriptivist theory of names Siobhan Chapman (ed.), Key Ideas in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language, Edinburgh University Press, 2009, p.

Sogeram languages (606 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Papua New Guinea. Oceanic Linguistics 55: 199-224. Daniels, Don. 2017. Gants is a Sogeram Language. Language and Linguistics in Melanesia 35: 82-93. ISO

Berik language (358 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington Publications in Linguistics, 107, Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University

Plosive (2,183 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

International Phonetic Association and the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association use the term "plosive". Either "occlusive" or "stop" may

Quechuan languages (9,205 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

6, 2023. Retrieved 12 December 2023. Heggarty, Paul (October 2007). "Linguistics for Archaeologists: Principles, Methods and the Case of the Incas". Cambridge