• All Terms

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• "-lect"


• abbreviation


• abbreviature


• abessive case


• abjad


• ablative case


• ablaut


• absent referent


• absolute clause


• absolute construction


• absolute modifier


• absolute tense


• abstract noun


• abugida


• abusage


• accent (phonology)


• accent aigu (´)


• accent bar


• accent grave (`)


• accidence


• accidental gap


• accusative case


• acoustic phonetics


• acrolect


• acronym


• acrophony


• ACS


• active participle


• active voice


• acute accent (´)


• acyrology


• adfix


• adianoeta


• adjectival clause


• adjective


• adjective pronoun


• adjunct


• adnominal


• adnominal adjunct


• adnominatio


• adnoun


• adposition


• adverb


• adverbial


• adverbial adjunct


• adverbial clause


• adverbial complement


• adverbial conjunction


• adverbial connective


• adverbial disjunct


• adverbial function


• adverbial genitive


• adverbial particle


• adverbial phrase


• adverb preposing


• adversative passive


• adverse | averse


• advise | advice


• Aelfric’s Grammar


• affect | effect


• affectum


• affinal taboo index


• affix


• affricate


• agentless passive


• agent noun


• agglomerese


• agglutinating language


• agglutination


• agrammatism


• agraphia


• agreement


• air quotes


• Airspeak


• Aktionsart


• alethic modality


• alexia


• alinea (¶)


• allative case


• alliteration


• allograph


• allomorph


• allophone


• allude | mention


• allusion | illusion


• alot | a lot


• alphabet


• alphabetic principle


• alright | all right


• alternately | alternatively


• alveolar margin


• alveolar ridge


• alveolar sound


• amalgam


• amalgamation


• ambigram


• ambiposition


• ambisyllabicity


• ambitransitive verb


• amelioration


• American Style of punctuation


• amoral | immoral


• ampersand (&)


• amphibology


• amphiboly


• amredita compound


• anachorism


• anacoluthon


• anacronym


• anacrusis


• anadiplosis


• anagram


• anagrammatism


• anagram pair


• analogical change


• analogy


• analytic language


• anapest


• anaphor


• anaphora (linguistics)


• anaphora (rhetoric)


• anaphoric pronoun


• anaptyxis


• anastrophe


• Anglian


• Anglo-French


• Anglo-Latin


• Anglo-Norman


• Anglo-Saxon


• Anglosphere


• anisomorphism


• answer ellipsis


• antagonym


• antanaclasis


• antecedent


• antecedent-contained deletion


• antecedent-contained ellipsis


• anthimeria


• anthroponomastics


• anthroponym


• anthroponymy


• anthroposemiotics


• anticipatory "it"


• anti-cliché


• anti-language


• antimetabole


• antiphrasis


• antisthecon


• antistrophe


• antonomasia


• antonym


• aphaeresis


• aphasia


• aphesis


• aphetic forms


• aphorism


• apical


• apocopate


• apocopation


• apocope


• apodosis


• apo koinou


• apophasis


• apophony


• aporia


• aposiopesis


• apostrophe (')


• apostrophe (rhetoric)


• apothegm


• apposition


• appositional object


• appositive clause


• appraise | apprise


• approximative case


• aptronym


• arbitrariness


• arbitrary gender


• archaism


• argot


• argument-contained ellipsis


• Aristophanes of Byzantium


• Ars Rhetorica


• article


• articulatory phonetics


• artificial language


• Art of Grammar


• Aryan


• ascriptive sentence


• ash


• Ashtadhyayi


• aspect


• asperand (@)


• assimilation


• associative case


• assonance


• asteism


• asterisk (*)


• asterisk (etymology)


• asterism


• asyndetic coordination


• asyndeton


• atelicity


• atomic unit


• at sign (@)


• attested form


• attested language


• atticism


• attic salt


• attribute


• attributive


• attributive adjective


• attributive expletive


• attributive noun


• auditory phonetics


• augmentative


• augur | auger


• aureate term


• author | co-author


• autoantonym


• auto-antonymy


• autological word


• autonym


• auxesis


• auxiliary verb


• aversive case


• Avestan


• baby talk


• back-channelling


• back-clipping


• back-formation


• backhanded compliment


• backronym


• backshift


• back slang


• backslash (\)


• backward pronominalization


• bahuvribi


• Bailey, Nathan


• barbarism


• bare argument ellipsis


• bare infinitive


• bare plural


• barred i


• base


• base form


• Basic English


• basic word order


• basilect


• begging the question


• benefactive


• beside | besides


• bicameral alphabet


• Bickerton, Derek


• bilabial


• billingsgate


• bimonthly | semi-monthly


• binary antonyms


• binomials


• bioprogram theory


• blend


• blending


• blind agreement


• blocking


• Bloomfield, Leonard


• Blount, Thomas


• BNC


• Boas, Franz


• Boasian view of language


• body language


• Bopp, Franz


• bouletic modality


• boulomaic modality


• bound morpheme


• boustrophedon


• bow-wow theory


• Boxhorn, Marcus van


• braces ({ })


• brachygraphy


• brachylogy


• brackets {}[]()«»< >


• break hyphen (-)


• breve


• British National Corpus


• British Style of punctuation


• broad reference


• Broca’s aphasia


• brogue


• broken English


• Brown Corpus


• Brythonic


• Bullokar, William


• bureaucratese


• burr


• buzzword


• cacography


• cacology


• caconym


• cacophemism


• cacozelia


• Caesar, Julius


• caesura


• calque


• CamelCase


• canonical form


• canonical order


• cant


• capital | Capitol


• capitalization


• capitonym


• cardinal vowels


• caret (^)


• caritive case


• Carny


• case


• casus generalis


• catachresis


• cataphora


• catchword


• causative suffix


• causative verb


• Caxton, William


• cedilla


• Celtic Hypothesis


• censure | censor


• cerilla


• chain of nouns


• character


• charactonym


• charientismus


• Charisius, Flavius Sosipater


• chiasmus


• child-directed speech


• ChilDes


• Chomsky, Noam


• chrestomathy


• chroneme


• chuchotage


• Ciardi, John


• circumfix


• circumflex (ˆ)


• circumlocution (linguistics)


• circumlocution (rhetoric)


• circumposition


• circumpositional phrase


• circumstantial adverb


• circumstantial modality


• citation


• citation form


• cite | site


• clang association


• clanging


• Classical Hebrew


• Classical Latin


• classifier


• clausal complement


• clause


• clear L [|]


• cledonism


• cleft infinitive


• cleft sentence


• cliché


• click consonant [!]


• climactic | climatic


• climax


• clipping


• clitic


• clitic pronoun


• closed-class item


• closed word class


• close pair


• CNL


• coda


• code-switching


• code word


• cognate accusative


• cognate object


• cognates


• cognate verb


• cohortative


• cohyponymic transfer


• coin


• Coleridge, Herbert


• collateral form


• collective noun


• collocation


• collocational restriction


• colon (:)


• colon (rhetoric)


• colonial lag


• combining form


• comitative case


• comma (,)


• comma splice


• commercial at (@)


• common adjective


• common gender


• common name


• common noun


• comparative


• comparative deletion


• comparative ellipsis


• compare to | compare with


• competence mistake


• complacent | complaisant


• complement


• complement | compliment


• completive marker


• complex-compound sentence


• complex preposition


• complex sentence


• compound


• compound adjective


• compound adverb


• compound-complex sentence


• compounding


• compound modifier


• compound noun


• compound sentence


• compound split infinitive


• compound subject


• compound tense


• compound verb


• comprise | compose


• conative


• concord


• concrete noun


• conditional


• conditional conjunction


• conditional mood


• conditional perfect


• confusables


• confusage


• congeries


• conjugate


• conjugation


• conjunct


• conjunction


• conjunctive adverb


• conjunctive conjunction


• conlang


• connotation


• connotation | denotation


• consonance


• consonant


• consonantal alphabet


• consonantal drift


• consonantary


• consonant cluster


• construe


• contextual spell-checking


• continuity theories


• continuous | continual


• continuous aspect


• contraction


• contranym


• contrast


• contrived acronym


• controlled language


• conventional haplography


• conversion


• conversion (etymology)


• coordinate adjectives


• coordinate clause


• coordinating conjunction


• coordinating connective


• coordination


• coordinator


• coprolalia


• copula


• copular sentence


• copulative conjunction


• corpus


• corpus linguistics


• correlative


• correlative conjunction


• correlative coordination


• council | counsel


• councillor | counsellor


• countable noun


• counterterm


• covering word


• CPH


• cranberry morpheme


• cranberry word


• crasis


• credible | credulous


• creole


• crescendo | climax


• Critical Age Hypothesis


• Critical Period Hypothesis


• cruciverbalist


• cryptolect


• Crystal, David


• cuckoo theory


• cumulative adjectives


• cumulative genitive


• cumulative reference


• cumulative sentence


• cumulativity


• cuneiform


• dactyl


• daffynition


• dagger (†)


• dangling gerund phrase


• dangling modifier


• dangling participle


• Daniels, Peter T.


• DARE


• dark L [ɫ]


• dash (– and —)


• dative case


• dead metaphor


• declarative content clause


• declension


• deep structure


• defective verb


• deference index


• deferred reference


• defining relative clause


• definite | definitive


• definite article


• defuse | diffuse


• degeneration


• degree


• degree (°)


• deictic pronoun


• deixis


• delative case


• demonstrative adjective


• demonstrative pronoun


• demonstrative root


• demonym


• demonymic


• demotic


• denotation


• denotatum


• dental consonant


• dental preterite


• deontic modality


• dependent clause


• dependent marker word


• derivation


• derivational affix


• derivational morphology


• derivational suffix


• derived adverb


• derived noun


• descriptive compound


• descriptivism


• desert | dessert


• designatum


• design features of language


• desinence


• determinative


• determinative compound


• determiner


• Devanagari


• deverbal noun


• diachronic linguistics


• diachronic paragoge


• diacope


• diacritic


• dialect


• dialogue


• diastole


• diction


• dictionary


• didactic grammar


• dieresis(¨)


• dieresis (linguistics)


• different from | different to


• diglossia


• digraph


• diminution (diminutive)


• diminution (litotes)


• diminutive


• dingbat


• diphone


• diphthong


• diphthongization


• direct object


• direct speech


• discontinuity theories


• discourse particle


• discreet | discrete


• disinterested | uninterested


• disjunct


• disjunctive conjunction


• disjunctive pronoun


• dis legomenon


• displacement


• dissimilation


• distal demonstrative


• distinctive features


• distributive adjective


• distributive pronoun


• disyllable


• ditransitive verb


• dittogram


• dittograph


• dittography


• dogberryism


• DO insertion


• don't-levelling


• Donatus


• donkey pronoun


• donkey sentence


• dorsal


• DO support


• double "is"


• double copula


• double dactyl


• double dagger (‡)


• double genitive


• double negative


• double obelisk (‡)


• double passive


• double plural


• doublespeak


• doublet (etymology)


• doublet (game)


• d-structure


• dual


• dual alphabet


• duality of patterning


• dubitative mood


• dummy


• dummy auxiliary DO


• dummy pronoun


• duplifix


• durative aspect


• dvandva


• dyad


• dynamic modality


• dynamic passive


• dynamic verb


• dysarthria


• Dyscolus, Apollonius


• dysgraphia


• dyslalia


• dyslexia


• dysphemism


• dysphonia


• dysprosody


• dystmesis


• Early English


• Early Middle English


• Early Modern English


• echoism


• echolalia


• echo tag


• ecphoneme (!)


• ecthlipsis


• editorial "we"


• editorial doubt


• Edwards, Jonathan


• effectum


• eggcorn


• egoism | egotism


• either


• elative


• elegant variation


• Elementarie


• elevation


• elision


• ellipsis (grammar)


• ellipsis (rhetoric)


• ellipsis (…)


• ellipsist


• elliptical clause


• elliptical infinitive


• elocution


• Elyot, Thomas


• em


• embedding


• embolalia


• em dash (—)


• eme


• emic


• emigrant | immigrant


• EModE


• emoticon


• emphatic pronoun


• em quad


• enallage (grammar)


• enallage (rhetoric)


• Enchorial Egyptian


• enclave | exclave


• enclitic


• en dash (–)


• endocentric


• endocentric compound


• endonym


• endophora


• engma


• enjambment


• envelop | envelope


• epanadiplosis


• epanados


• epanalepsis


• epanastrophe


• epanorthosis


• epenthesis


• epeolatry


• epergesis


• epexegesis


• epicene gender


• epicene pronoun


• epiphora


• epistemic modality


• epistrophe


• episynaloephe


• epithet


• epizeuxis


• eponym


• eponymy


• E-Prime


• equational sentence


• equative


• ergative–absolutive language


• ergative case


• ergative verb


• erotema


• eroteme (?)


• Erse


• escape character (\)


• -ese


• esoteric language


• Esperanto


• etc.


• et cetera


• ethnonym


• ethnonymics


• etic


• etymological fallacy


• etymological twins


• etymology


• etymon


• euphemism


• euphemism treadmill


• eusystolism


• evidential language


• exact synonyms


• exceptionable | exceptional


• exclamation mark (!)


• exegesis


• exemplification


• existential "it"


• existential "there"


• existential sentence


• exocentric


• exocentric compound


• exonym


• exoteric language


• expletive


• expletive pronoun


• extension


• external sandhi


• extranuclear


• factitive object


• factual aptronym


• false cognates


• false friends


• false passive


• false splitting


• fatalism | pessimism


• faulty coordination


• faulty parallelism


• faulty subordination


• fawn | faun


• fewer | less


• fictional aptronym


• figurative


• figurative | literal


• figurative extension


• figure


• figure dash (‒)


• figure of speech


• finger quotes


• finite clause


• finite verb


• fixed phrase


• flammable | inflammable


• flat adverb


• flaunt | flout


• FLB


• FLN


• flounder | founder


• focus


• folk etymology


• Follett, Wilson


• font


• fore-and-aft-clipping


• fore-clipping


• foreignism


• foreword | forward


• Forkhead box protein P2


• fortition


• forward slash (/)


• fossilized term


• fossil word


• fourth person


• Fowler, Henry Watson


• Fowler's Modern English Usage


• FOXP2


• frame semantics


• Frankish


• free morpheme


• freezes


• Fremdvort


• French spacing


• frequentative


• fricative


• full infinitive


• full stop


• Furnivall, Frederick


• fused participle


• fused relative clause


• fused sentence


• fusional language


• Futhork


• future continuous


• future inceptive


• future past


• future perfect


• future perfect continuous


• future perfect progressive


• future progressive


• future simple


• future subordinate


• future tense


• gallicism


• Gallo-Roman


• gapping (clauses)


• gapping ellipsis


• garden path sentence


• Garg, Anu


• Gaswort


• gemination (orthography)


• gemination (phonetics)


• gemination (rhetoric)


• gender


• gender concord


• genderlect


• gender marking


• General American


• generalization


• General Purpose Dictionary


• generative grammar


• generic "he"


• generic "one"


• generic "you"


• genericide


• generic mood


• generification


• generonym


• genitive case


• genteelism


• gentilic


• gentleman's agreement


• gerund


• gerundive


• gestural theory of language origins


• get-passive


• ghost word


• gibberish


• glide


• gloss


• glossary


• Glossographia


• glossolalia


• glossopoeia


• glottal catch


• glottal stop


• glottis


• glottochronology


• glyph


• gnomic


• gnomic aorist


• gobbledygook


• Goidelic


• got and gotten


• govern


• Gowers, Ernest


• GPD


• gradability


• gradable antonyms


• gradation


• grammar


• grammar explosion


• grammarian


• grammatical


• grammatical aspect


• grammatical category


• grammatical concord


• grammatical gender


• grammaticalisation


• grammaticality


• grammatical morpheme


• grammatical number


• grammatical voice


• grammaticisation


• Grammaticus, Diomedes


• grammeme


• grapheme


• graphology


• graphospasm


• Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax


• Great Vowel Shift


• Greenberg, Joseph


• greengrocer's apostrophe


• Grimm, Jacob


• Grimm's Law


• grisly | grizzly


• group noun


• group possessive


• guillemets (« »)


• Gunning Fog Index


• hanged | hung


• Hangul


• hapax legomenon


• haplography


• haplology


• hard hyphen (-)


• hard-word dictionary


• Harper, Douglas


• Harris, Zellig


• Harvard comma


• Hausa


• h-dropping


• head


• head directionality parameter


• head final


• head initial


• headword


• Heavy Metal Umlaut


• hedge


• helping verb


• hendiadys


• hendiatris


• heritage language


• heterogloss


• heterographs


• heterography


• heterological word


• heteronym


• heterophone


• hiatus


• hieratic


• hieronym


• High German


• High Rising Intonation (HRI)


• High Rising terminal (HRT)


• Hiragana


• historic | historical


• historical linguistics


• historical present


• historical principles


• historical semantics


• hoard | horde


• Hobson-Jobsonism


• hole in the pattern


• holonymy


• homeoteleuton (literary)


• homeoteleuton (palaeography)


• homograph


• homography


• homonym


• homophone


• honorific


• hopefully


• Horace


• hortative


• howler


• Humboldt, Wilhelm von


• hybrid


• hypallage


• hyperbaton


• hyperbole


• hypercorrect


• hyperforeign


• hyperglot


• hypernasality


• hyperonym


• hyphen (-)


• hypocorism


• hypocoristic


• hypogegrammeni


• hyponym


• hypotaxis


• hysterologia


• hysteron proteron


• i.e. | e.g.


• iamb


• iambic pentameter


• Ibn Abi Ishaq


• iconic sign


• ideogram


• ideograph


• ideophone


• idiolect


• idiom


• idiomatic passive


• idiotism


• if | whether | when


• illative case


• illative particle


• illeism


• illocutionary act


• imperative mood


• imperative particle


• imperfect participle


• imperfect tense


• impersonal verb


• implicational universal


• implied conditional


• imply | infer


• inceptive future


• inceptive verb


• inchoative aspect


• inchoative verb


• inclusive/exclusive "we" pronouns


• indefinite article


• indefinite numeral


• indefinite pronoun


• independent clause


• independent marker word


• indexical sign


• indicative mood


• indirect object


• indirect passive


• indirect speech


• Indo-European


• Indo-Germanic


• inductive antonomasia


• infinitival particle


• infinitive


• infix


• inflection


• inflectional affix


• inflectional morphology


• inflectional root


• inflectional suffix


• initialism


• inkhornism


• inkhorn term


• inkpot term


• instrumental case


• intensifier


• intensive pronoun


• interchangeability


• interdental consonant


• interfix


• interjection


• internal sandhi


• International Phonetic Alphabet


• interpunct (·)


• interrogation point (?)


• interrogative adverb


• interrogative clause


• interrogative content clause


• interrogative pronoun


• intonation


• intonation contour


• intonation curve


• intonation language


• intonation phoneme


• intonation turn


• intoneme


• intransitive verb


• introductory complement


• intrusive R


• invariant noun


• iota


• iota subscript


• IPA


• ipsissima verba


• irony


• irony mark


• irrealis moods


• irregular verb


• isocolon


• isogloss


• isogram


• isolating language


• it-cleft


• iterated genitive determiner


• iterative compound


• Jakobson, Roman


• Janus word


• jargon


• Jespersen, Otto


• Jespersen's cycle


• jocular formation


• joey


• Johnson, Samuel


• Johnson's Dictionary Preface


• Jones, William


• jot


• juncture


• juncture loss


• kadigan


• kangaroo word


• karmadharaya


• Katakana


• kenning


• Kentish


• kinesics


• koine


• koinon


• Kudos for the ODLT


• Kussmaul, Adolph


• label name


• labial


• labiodental


• laconism


• Lakoff, George


• Lakoff, Robin


• lallation


• lambdacism


• laminal


• language


• language bioprogram hypothesis


• language faculty


• language instinct


• langue


• langue d'oc


• langue d'oïl


• Late Latin


• lateral


• Latin


• lative case


• lavender language


• lavender linguistics


• lax vowel


• lect


• lemma


• lemmatize


• lenition


• Lenvort


• letter


• lexeme


• lexical


• lexical aspect


• lexical category


• lexical class


• lexical gap


• lexical item


• lexical meaning


• lexical morphology


• lexical priming


• lexical root


• lexical unit


• lexical verb


• lexicographer


• lexicography


• lexicology


• lexicon


• lexifer language


• liaison


• ligature


• light verb


• limiting adjective


• limiting clause


• lingua franca


• Lingua Tertii Imperii


• linguist


• linguistic determinism


• linguistic nativism


• linguistic relativity


• linguistics


• Linguistics Wars


• linguistic turn


• linguistic typology


• link hyphen (-)


• linking verb


• lipogram


• lipography


• listeme


• literal


• literary onomastics


• litotes


• loan blend


• loanshift


• loan translation


• loanword


• loath | loathe


• localism


• locative case


• logatome


• logical punctuation


• logogram


• logograph


• logographic principle


• logomachy


• logonomy


• logorrhea


• long passive


• long vowel


• loose | lose


• loose sentence


• Low German


• Lowth, Robert


• luxuriant | luxurious


• macaronic


• macrolinguistics


• macron


• main clause


• main entry


• majestic plural


• major sentence


• majuscule


• malapropism


• manner adverb


• manner of articulation


• Manutius, Aldus (the Elder)


• Manutius, Aldus (the Younger)


• marker


• mass noun


• mass-word


• matronym


• meaningless DO


• measure word


• Medieval Latin


• meiosis


• Mei Ying-tso


• Mentalese


• Mercian


• Merge


• merism


• merismus


• meronymy


• Mesha Stele


• mesolect


• metacronym


• metagrammatism


• metalanguage


• metalepsis


• metalinguistics


• metallage


• metanalysis


• metanoia


• metaphor


• metaphoric extension


• metaplasm (linguistics)


• metaplasm (rhetoric)


• metastasis


• metathesis


• metonym


• metonymy


• metronymic


• metronymy


• microlinguistics


• Middle English


• Middle French


• Middle High German


• Middle Low German


• militate | mitigate


• minced oath


• minimal free form


• Minimalist Program


• minimal pair


• minor sentence


• minuscule


• mirative mood


• misdivision


• misplaced modifier


• Mitchell, Richard


• mixed metaphor


• modal auxiliary verb


• modality


• modal verb


• Modern English


• Modern Language Association (MLA)


• Modern Latin


• modifier


• mondegreen


• monepic


• monogenesis


• mononym


• monophthong


• monophthongization


• monospaced font


• monosyllabic language


• monosyllable


• Montfaucon, Bernard de


• mood


• morph


• morpheme


• morphemics


• morphology


• morphophonology


• motherese


• multiple negation


• mumpsimus


• Muphry's law


• Murray, James


• mutated plural


• mycterismus


• narrowing


• nasal


• natural gender


• natural language


• Natural Language Toolkit


• near rhyme


• negative concord


• negative particle


• negative pronoun


• n-ellipsis


• Neogrammarian Hypothesis


• Neogrammarians


• neologism


• neology


• New English Dictionary


• New High German


• new information marker


• Newspeak


• nice-nellyism


• Nirukta


• NLTK


• nobiliary particle


• Nomenclaturism


• nominalization (etymology)


• nominalization (grammar)


• nominal relative clause


• nominative absolute


• nominative case


• nominative pronoun


• nonce word


• non-defining relative clause


• non-finite verb


• non-gradability


• non-restrictive relative clause


• non-rhotic speech


• nonword


• Norman


• normative grammar


• North Germanic


• North Sea Germanic


• Northumbrian


• nosism


• Nostratic


• note of admiration (!)


• notional agreement


• notional concord


• notional verb


• not-stripping ellipsis


• noun


• noun adjunct


• nounal


• nounal clause


• nounally


• noun chain


• noun clause


• noun-incorporation


• nouning


• noun of assemblage


• noun phrase


• nucleus


• null-A


• null comparative


• null complement anaphora


• null subject language


• null subject parameter


• number


• obelisk (†)


• obelism


• object


• object complement


• object pronoun


• oblique (/)


• oblique case


• occlusive


• OED


• officialese


• officious | official


• of-genitive


• Ogden, C.K.


• Ogham


• Oh | O


• Old Church Slavonic


• Old English


• Old French


• Old High German


• Old Low German


• Old North French


• Old Saxon


• oligosynthetic language


• onomasiology


• onomasticon


• onomastics


• onomatechny


• onomatology


• onomatopoeia


• onomatopoeic coinage


• onomatotechny


• onset


• open-class item


• open word class


• optative mood


• ordinance | ordnance


• oronyms


• orthoepy


• orthographic depth


• orthographic principle


• orthography


• ostensive definition


• OV language


• Oxford comma


• Oxford English Dictionary


• oxymoron


• palaeography


• palarie


• palatal


• palate


• palate | palette


• palindrome


• Palsgrave, John


• Panini


• parachesis


• paradigm


• paragoge


• paragraph


• paragraphos


• paralanguage


• paralexia


• paralinguistics


• paralipsis


• parallelism


• parameter


• paraph


• paraphasia


• paraphrasia


• paraphrasis


• paraprosdokian


• parasitic -t


• parataxis


• parelcon (etymology)


• parelcon (rhetoric)


• parentheses ()


• parimion


• Parlyaree


• paroemion


• parole


• paromoiosis


• paronomasia


• paronyms


• parse


• pars pro toto


• participial adjective


• participial clause


• participial phrase


• participle


• participle clause


• particle


• particle verb


• partitive


• partitive article


• partitive genitive case


• Partridge, Eric


• parts of speech


• passive progressive voice


• passive voice


• Passy, Paul


• past continuous


• past future


• past participle


• past perfect


• past perfect continuous


• past perfect progressive


• past progressive


• past simple


• past tense


• pathos


• patois


• patronymic


• paucal


• peak


• pejoration


• penultimate | ultimate


• perfective aspect


• perfective auxiliary


• perfect participle


• performance mistake


• performative verb


• period (.)


• periodic sentence


• periphrasis


• periphrasis (linguistics)


• periphrast


• periphrastic DO


• perlocutionary act


• perlocutionary effect


• perquisite | prerequisite


• perseveration


• person


• personal pronoun


• perspicuous | perspicacious


• petitio principii


• pharynx


• phatic communion


• philology


• phonation


• phone


• phoneme


• phonemic inventory


• phonesthemes


• phonesthesia


• phonetic


• phonetics


• phonogram


• phonology


• phonotactics


• phrasal adverb


• phrasal indefinite pronoun


• phrasal verb


• phrase


• phrase structure grammar


• pictogram


• pictograph


• pidgin


• PIE


• pilcrow (¶)


• Pinker, Steven


• Pinyin


• pitch


• Pitman, Isaac


• place adverb


• placeholder name


• place of articulation


• Plato's problem


• pleonasm


• pleonastic genitive


• pleonastic pronoun


• pleonastic subject


• ploce


• plosive


• pluperfect


• plural


• plurale tantum


• pluralis auctoris


• pluralis maiestatis


• pluralis modestiae


• plural of majesty


• poecilonym


• pointed u


• pointing


• point-virgule (;)


• pojmanym


• Polari


• Politics and the English Language


• polyepic


• polygenesis


• polyglot


• polyonym


• polyptote


• polyptoton


• polyseme


• polysemous


• polysemy


• polysyllable


• polysyndetic coordination


• polysyndeton


• polysynthetic language


• polyword


• pooh-pooh theory


• popular etymology


• portmanteau morph


• portmanteau word


• positive


• possessive


• possessive adjective


• possessive apostrophe (')


• possessive case


• possessive pronoun


• possessive recursion


• postfix


• post genitive


• postmodifier


• postposition


• postpositive preposition


• potential mood


• POTS


• poverty of the stimulus


• practice | practise


• pragmatic competence


• pragmatic particle


• pragmatics


• predicate


• predicate nominative


• predicate objective


• predicative


• predicative adjective


• prefix


• premiss | premise


• premodifier


• prep "it"


• preposition


• prepositional phrase


• prepositional pronoun


• prepositional verb


• preposition stranding


• prescriptivism


• present continuous


• present participle


• present perfect


• present perfect continuous


• present perfect progressive


• present progressive


• present simple


• present tense


• preterite


• preventive | preventative


• primary orality


• primings


• principal | principle


• principal parts of a verb


• principal verb


• principle


• Principles and Parameters


• Principles of Newspeak


• Priscian


• privative


• privative alpha


• privative case


• privy nippe


• Probus, Marcus Valerius


• proclitic


• pro-drop language


• pro-drop parameter


• productivity


• pro-form


• progressive aspect


• progressive auxiliary


• progressive future


• progressive future perfect


• progressive participle


• progressive past


• progressive past perfect


• progressive present


• progressive present perfect


• prolepsis


• pronominal adjective


• pronoun


• pronoun inventory


• prop "it"


• proper adjective


• proper name


• proper noun


• proprietary name


• proprietary term


• pro-sentence


• proslepsis


• prosody


• prosopopeia


• prosthesis


• Protagoras


• protasis


• prothesis


• Proto-Germanic


• protogram


• Proto-Indo-European


• proto-language


• Proto Language


• protologism


• proto-world-language


• pro-verb


• proximal demonstrative


• proximity concord


• pseudo-acronym


• pseudogapping


• pseudoword


• Pullum, Geoffrey


• punctuation


• punctuation mark


• punctum


• punctus


• punctus interrogativus


• punctus percontativus


• Pupillus, Orbilius


• pure infinitive


• pure vowel


• quantifier


• quasi-auxiliary verb


• quasi-periodic vibration voicing


• Queen's English


• question mark (?)


• question tag


• Quintilian


• quotation dash (—)


• quotation marks (' ')(" ")


• quotation quadrats (' ')(" ")


• Rask, Rasmus


• rational gender


• r-dropping


• realis moods


• rebracketing


• Rebus Principle


• Received Pronunciation


• recipient noun


• reciprocal pronoun


• recursion


• recursive acronym


• recursive syntactic subordination


• redundant verb


• reduplicated plural


• reduplication


• Reed-Kellogg diagrams


• refactorization


• referent


• reflexive pronoun


• reflexive verb


• regiolect


• register


• regretful | regrettable


• regular verb


• reinforcement tag


• relative clause


• relative pronoun


• relative tense


• relativizer


• Renaissance English


• resolved tense


• restrictive relative clause


• resultant object


• resultative adjective


• retained object


• retronym


• reversed wh-cleft


• reverse solidus (\)


• rhetoral elocution


• rhetoric


• rhetorical device


• rhetorical question


• rhetorical question mark


• rhopalic


• rhotacism


• rhotacism (etymology)


• rhotic speech


• rhyming compound


• rhyming slang


• Richards, I. A.


• rime


• Robert Cawdrey


• Roget, Peter


• root


• rootless


• Rosetta Project


• royal "we"


• RP


• rune


• run-on sentence


• SAE


• Safire, William


• sandhi


• Sanskrit


• sans-serif


• Sapir, Edward


• Sapir–Whorf hypothesis


• sarcasm


• Saussure, Ferdinand de


• Saxon genitive


• Saxonism


• Scandinavian


• scare quotes


• scheme


• Schlegel, Friedrich


• schwa


• Scoticism


• Scots


• Scottish


• Scottism


• Scouse


• scrambling language


• scratch comma (/)


• script


• scriptio continua


• secondary object


• secondary orality


• section (§)


• segment


• semagram


• semalfactive


• semantic drift


• semanticity


• semantic loan


• semantics


• semantic spoonerism


• semaphore


• semasiology


• sememe


• semicolon (;)


• semiotics


• semiphonotypy


• Semi-Saxon


• semivowel


• senone


• sentence


• sentence adverb


• sentence case


• sentence element


• sentence fragment


• separatrix (|)


• serial comma


• serif


• sesquipedalian


• s-genitive


• shall | will


• shear | sheer


• shibboleth


• shorthand


• short passive


• short vowel


• Siamese twins


• sibilant


• sideroxylon


• sigmatism


• sign


• sign (Saussure)


• signifier


• silent letter


• SIL International Ethnologue


• simile


• Simon, John


• simple adverb


• simple future


• simple past


• simple present


• simple sentence


• simple tense


• simple verb


• simulfix


• singular


• singular "they"


• singulare tantum


• situational agreement


• Skeat, Walter


• skeuomorphism


• slang


• SLI


• sluicing


• sniglet


• sociolect


• soft hyphen (-)


• soft palate


• solecism


• solidus (⁄)


• soraismus


• sortal


• sound symbolism


• SOV language


• Spanish N


• SPE


• speaking in tongues


• specialization


• specific language impairment


• speech


• spelling numbers


• spelling pronunciation


• spiritus asper


• spiritus lenis


• spliced idiom


• split infinitive


• split modifier


• split verb


• Spooner, William


• spoonerism


• spot-plague


• Sprachraum


• square brackets ([ ])


• squinting modifier


• s-structure


• Standard American English


• stationary | stationery


• stative passive


• stative verb


• Steeves, Jon


• stem


• stenography


• stop


• stop consonant


• stress


• stripping ellipsis


• strong verb


• structural linguistics


• Strunk, William Jr.


• StudlyCaps


• stunt word


• stylistics


• subject


• subject complement


• subjective pronoun


• subject-prominent language


• subject pronoun


• subjunctive


• subordinate clause


• subordinate conjunction


• subordinate future


• subordinating conjunction


• subordinating connective


• subordination


• subordinator


• subpuncting


• subreption


• substantive


• substantive adjective


• substantive participle


• substrate


• such as


• suffix


• superfix


• superlative


• superlative of two


• superordinate


• superstrate


• supine


• suppletion


• suppletive form


• suprafix


• suprasegmental


• surface form


• surface structure


• Survey Corpus


• Survey of English Usage


• suspended compound adjective


• suspended hyphen (-)


• suspension point (…)


• suspension sign


• SVO language


• Sweet, Henry


• swung dash (~)


• syllabary


• syllabification


• syllable


• syllable word


• syllabogram


• syllepsis


• symbolic sign


• synaeresis


• synaesthesia (literary)


• synaesthesia (medical)


• synaloepha


• synchysis


• syncopation


• syncope


• syncretism


• syndetic coordination


• synecdoche


• synesis


• synonym


• synonymia


• synonymicon


• synonymy


• synopsis


• syntactic expletive


• syntax


• synthetic language


• systole


• systrophe


• Table Alphabeticall


• tachygraphy


• tag


• tag question


• tail question


• tapinosis


• tatpurusha


• tautology


• taxogram


• tayl'd i


• technobabble


• technospeak


• teleological modality


• telicity


• Temherte slaq (¡)


• tense


• tense vowel


• terminology


• tetrakis legomenon


• text messaging


• T-form


• that-clause


• the indefinite vowel


• The King's English


• The New World of Words


• theophoric


• theronym


• thesaurus


• the substantive verb


• thetatismus


• thorn


• Thrax, Dionysius


• tilde (~)


• time adverb


• Tironian notes


• titillate | titivate


• Title case


• tittle


• tmesis


• to-infinitive


• tonal sandhi


• tone


• tone language


• toneme


• topic-prominent language


• topolect


• toponomastics


• toponym


• toponymy


• tortuous | torturous


• totum pro parte


• traditional grammar


• transferred epithet


• transformation


• transformational grammar


• transitive verb


• translation fallacy


• transliterate


• transnumeral


• Trench, Richard


• trial


• tricolon


• tri-consonantal root


• trinomials


• Tripartite motto


• triphone


• triphthong


• triplets


• tris legomenon


• trisyllable


• trope


• troponymy


• Truss, Lynn


• tuism


• turbid | turgid


• tushery


• T–V distinction


• T-V pronouns


• typeface


• typography


• typology


• umlaut(¨)


• umlaut (process)


• uncial


• uncountable noun


• Underground Grammarian


• underlying form


• unexceptionable | unexceptional


• unicameral alphabet


• unique morpheme


• universal


• universal grammar


• universal tendency


• univocalic


• unpaired word


• unreal past


• upspeak


• uptalk


• Urheimat


• Ursprache


• uvula


• uvular r


• uvular trill


• vague word


• valency


• variety


• Varro


• velar


• velopharyngeal insufficiency


• venal | venial


• verb


• verbal


• verbal false limb


• verbicide


• verbigeration


• verbless clause


• verb-noun


• verb phrase ellipsis


• verbum sap


• vernacular


• Verner's Law


• V-form


• virgule (/)


• vocabulary


• vocal cords


• vocal folds


• vocal fry


• vocalic


• vocative case


• vogue word


• voice (phonology)


• voiced consonant


• voiceless consonant


• voice onset time


• VO language


• volition


• VOT


• vowel


• vowel gradation


• vowel quantity


• vowel shift


• VPE


• VPI


• VSO language


• vulgarism


• Vulgar Latin


• Wallis, John


• Wanderwort


• wanna-contraction


• Wardour Street English


• weak pronoun


• weak verb


• weasel word


• weather "it"


• Webster, Noah


• well-formed


• Wernicke’s aphasia


• West Germanic


• West Saxon


• wh-cleft


• Whewell, William


• White, Elwyn Brooks (E. B.)


• Whorf, Benjamin


• wh-question


• widening


• Witzelsucht


• word


• word blindness


• word boundary


• word class


• word magic


• wordmark


• word salad


• wordsmith


• word vision


• writer's cramp


• Wug test


• wug word


• xenoglossia


• xenoglossy


• Yaska


• yo-he-ho theory


• Young, Thomas


• Zamenhof, Ludvic


• zero


• zero article


• zero conditional


• zero copula


• zero derivation


• zero-derivation nominalization


• zeugma


• Zipf's law