Category:Linguistics

A

• Abbreviations: Acronyms, Initialisms, Contractions, Apocopation
• Accent, Dialect, Language
• Affixes
• Agreement
• Ambiguity
• Apostrophe
• Apposition
• Attributive

B

• Bantu
• Binding
• Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo

C

• Cat grammar
• Catachresis
• Clustering By Committee
• Compounds, phrases
• Computational linguistics
• Connectives: Copulae, Conjunctions
• Coordinations
• Correlatives

D

• Dead language
• Diaresis, trema, umlaut
• Digraphs, ligatures, dipthongs

E

• Elision
• Eskimo snow

G

• Gloss, glossing, glossary

I

• Ible, able
• Inflection, Derivation, Declension, Conjugation
• Interpretation
• Interrogatives
• Intonation, stress, focus

L

• Language Change: Morphologization, Lexicalization, Grammaticalization, Phonologization
• Language families
• Language typology
• Lexicology
• LinGO

M

• Markedness, Marking, Markers
• Minimal pairs
• Modality
• Modification
• Morpheme, Syllable, Lexeme, Grapheme, Phoneme, Character, Glyph
• Morphology

O

• Onomasiology

P

• Phonetic scripts
• Pleonasm, tautology
• Power law
• Predicate forms
• Prescription, description
• Pro-forms

P cont.

• Projection Principle
• Punctuation

R

• Regularity

S

• Semiotics
• Shibboleths
• Sociolinguistics
• Substituted phrases and/or double-meaninged phrases
• Syntactic and lexical categories

T

• Tagsets
• Text transforms in search
• The Cupertino effect
• The function/content distinction
• Translation dictionaries
• Type-token ratio
• Typography, orthography

U

• Umlaut

V

• Vocabulary

W

• Which, what
• Word and concept reference
• Word formation
• Word similarity
• Writing systems

Y

• Yodish