Language units large and small
Marked forms of words - Inflection, Derivation, Declension, Conjugation · Diminutive, Augmentative
Groups and categories and properties of words - Syntactic and lexical categories · Grammatical cases · Correlatives · Expletives · Adjuncts
Words and meaning -
Morphology ·
Lexicology ·
Semiotics ·
Onomasiology
· Figures of speech, expressions, phraseology, etc. · Word similarity ·
Ambiguity ·
Modality ·
Segment function, interaction, reference - Clitics · Apposition· Parataxis, Hypotaxis· Attributive· Binding · Coordinations · Word and concept reference
Sentence structure and style - Agreement · Ellipsis· Hedging
Phonology - Articulation · Formants· Prosody · Sound change · Intonation, stress, focus · Diphones · Intervocalic · Glottal stop · Vowel_diagrams · Elision · Ablaut_and_umlaut · Phonics
Analyses, models, processing, software - Minimal pairs · Concordances · Linguistics software · Some_relatively_basic_text_processing · Word embeddings · Semantic similarity ·· Speech processing · Praat notes · Praat plugins and toolkit notes · Praat scripting notes
Unsorted - Contextualism ·
· Text summarization ·
Accent, Dialect, Language · Pidgin, Creole · Natural language typology ·
Writing_systems · Typography, orthography ·
Digraphs, ligatures, dipthongs ·
More linguistic terms and descriptions ·
Phonetic scripts
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Hedges refer to explicit reduction of the certainty of a statement.
Hedges are often markers, often
It is related to euphemism, and to various pragmatic effects such as qualifiers used in discussions (see cooperative principle and Gricean maxims).
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