• All Terms

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• "-lect"


• "of" genitive


• abbreviation


• abbreviature


• abjad


• ablative


• ablaut


• absent referent


• abstract noun


• abugida


• accidence


• accusative


• acrolect


• acronym


• active voice


• adfix


• adianoeta


• adjectival clause


• adjective


• adjective pronoun


• adnominal


• adnominatio


• adnoun


• adverb


• adverbial


• adverbial clause


• adverbial conjunction


• adverbial phrase


• adverse | averse


• Aelfric’s Grammar


• affect | effect


• affix


• agent noun


• agglutination


• agraphia


• Aldus Manutius, the Elder


• Aldus Manutius, the Younger


• alexia


• alliteration


• allograph


• allomorph


• allophone


• allusion | illusion


• alot | a lot


• alphabet


• alright | all right


• alternately | alternatively


• amelioration


• American Dialectical Society (ADS)


• amoral | immoral


• ampersand (&)


• anacoluthon


• anacronym


• anacrusis


• anadiplosis


• anagram


• anagram pair


• analytic language


• anapest


• anaphora (linguistics)


• anaphora (rhetoric)


• anaphoric pronoun


• anaptyxis


• anastrophe


• Anglian


• Anglo-French


• Anglo-Latin


• Anglo-Norman


• Anglosphere


• antagonym


• antanaclasis


• antecedent


• anthimeria


• anthroponym


• anthroponymy


• antimetabole


• antiphrasis


• antisthecon


• antonomasia


• antonym


• aphaeresis


• aphasia


• aphesis


• aphetic forms


• aphorism


• apocopate


• apocope


• apodosis


• apo koinou


• Apollonius Dyscolus


• apophasis


• apophony


• aposiopesis


• apostrophe (')


• apothegm


• apposition


• appraise | apprise


• aptronym


• arbitrariness


• argot


• Ars Rhetorica


• artificial language


• Art of Grammar


• ash


• Ashtadhyayi


• aspect


• assimilation


• assonance


• asterisk (*)


• asterisk (etymology)


• asterism


• asyndeton


• atomic unit


• at sign (@)


• attribute


• augmentative


• augur | auger


• autoantonym


• autonym


• auxiliary verb


• back-clipping


• backronym


• backslash (\)


• barbarism


• base


• Basic English


• basilect


• begging the question


• Benjamin Whorf


• Bernard de Montfaucon


• beside | besides


• bicameral alphabet


• billingsgate


• bimonthly | semi-monthly


• body language


• bound morpheme


• boustrophedon


• braces ({ })


• brachygraphy


• brachylogy


• brackets {}[]()«»< >


• brogue


• C.K. Ogden


• cacography


• cacophemism


• cacozelia


• caesura


• calque


• CamelCase


• cant


• capital | Capitol


• capitalization


• capitonym


• caret (^)


• case


• catachresis


• cataphora


• censure | censor


• character (typography)


• charientismus


• chiasmus


• chrestomathy


• circumfix


• circumflex (ˆ)


• circumlocution (linguistics)


• circumlocution (rhetoric)


• citation


• citation form


• cite | site


• Classical Hebrew


• Classical Latin


• clause


• cledonism


• cleft infinitive


• cleft sentence


• climactic | climatic


• clipping


• clitic


• cognate


• cognate accusative


• cognate object


• coin


• collective noun


• collocation


• collocational restriction


• colon (:)


• colon (rhetoric)


• combining form


• comma (,)


• comma splice


• common adjective


• common noun


• comparative


• compare to | compare with


• complacent | complaisant


• complement


• complement | compliment


• complex sentence


• compound adjective


• compound adverb


• compound-complex sentence


• compound modifier


• compound noun


• compound sentence


• compound split infinitive


• comprise | compose


• concrete noun


• congeries


• conjugate


• conjunction


• conjunctive adverb


• conjunctive conjunction


• conlang


• connotation


• connotation | denotation


• consonance


• consonant


• consonantary


• contextual spell-checking


• continuous | continual


• contranym


• contrived acronym


• controlled language


• conventional haplography


• conversion


• coordinate adjectives


• coordinate clause


• coordinating conjunctions


• coordination


• coprolalia


• copula


• copulative conjunction


• correlative conjunction


• council | counsel


• councillor | counsellor


• counterterm


• crasis


• credible | credulous


• creole


• cruciverbalist


• cryptolect


• dactyl


• daffynition


• dangling participle


• dative


• dead metaphor


• declension


• definite | definitive


• defuse | diffuse


• degree (°)


• deictic pronoun


• demonstrative pronoun


• demonstrative root


• demonym


• denotation


• denotatum


• dependent clause


• dependent marker word


• Derek Bickerton


• derivation


• derived adverb


• descriptivism


• desert | dessert


• designatum


• desinence


• determiner


• diachronic paragoge


• diacope


• diacritic


• dialect


• diastole


• diction


• dictionary


• dieresis(¨)


• dieresis (linguistics)


• digraph


• diminutive


• dingbat


• Diomedes Grammaticus


• Dionysius Thrax


• diphthong


• direct object


• discreet | discrete


• disinterested | uninterested


• disjunctive conjunction


• disjunctive pronoun


• dis legomenon


• dissimilation


• distal demonstrative


• distributive adjective


• distributive pronoun


• ditransitive verb


• dittogram


• dittograph


• dittography


• double copula


• double obelisk (‡)


• doublet (etymology)


• doublet (game)


• Douglas Harper


• dummy pronoun


• duplifix


• dysgraphia


• dyslalia


• dyslexia


• dysphemism


• dysprosody


• dystmesis


• Early Modern English


• echolalia


• ecthlipsis


• editorial doubt


• Edward Sapir


• eggcorn


• egoism | egotism


• either


• elative


• elegant variation


• elision


• ellipsis (grammar)


• ellipsis (rhetoric)


• ellipsis (…)


• embolalia


• em dash (—)


• eme


• emigrant | immigrant


• enallage (grammar)


• enallage (rhetoric)


• enclitic


• en dash (–)


• endonym


• endophora


• enjambment


• envelop | envelope


• epanadiplosis


• epanalepsis


• epanorthosis


• epenthesis


• epergesis


• epexegesis


• epicene pronoun


• epistrophe


• episynaloephe


• epithet


• epizeuxis


• eponym


• E-Prime


• erotema


• Erse


• escape character (\)


• Esperanto


• etc.


• et cetera


• etymological fallacy


• etymology


• etymon


• euphemism


• eusystolism


• exact synonyms


• exceptionable | exceptional


• exclamation mark (!)


• exegesis


• exemplification


• exonym


• exophora


• expletive pronoun


• fatalism | pessimism


• fawn | faun


• Ferdinand de Saussure


• figurative | literal


• figure of speech


• finite verb


• flammable | inflammable


• flaunt | flout


• Flavius Sosipater Charisius


• flounder | founder


• folk etymology


• font


• fore-and-aft-clipping


• fore-clipping


• foreword | forward


• forward slash (/)


• Fowler's Modern English Usage


• Frankish


• Franz Boas


• Franz Bopp


• Frederick Furnivall


• free morpheme


• French spacing


• frequentative


• Friedrich Schlegel


• fused sentence


• futhork


• Gallo-Romance


• garden path sentences


• generic one


• generic you


• genitive


• gerund


• gerundive


• ghost word


• gibberish


• gloss


• glossary


• glossolalia


• glossopoeia


• glyph


• gnomic


• gnomic aorist


• govern


• grammar


• grapheme


• graphospasm


• Great Vowel Shift


• Grimm's Law


• grisly | grizzly


• guillemets (« »)


• hanged | hung


• hapax legomenon


• haplography


• haplology


• Harvard comma


• Hausa


• head


• headword


• Heavy Metal Umlaut


• hendiadys


• hendiatris


• Henry Watson Fowler


• Herbert Coleridge


• heteronym


• hieronym


• High German


• historic historical


• hoard | horde


• homeoteleuton (literary)


• homeoteleuton (palaeography)


• homograph


• homonym


• homophone


• honorific


• hybrid


• hypallage


• hyperbaton


• hyperbole


• hypercorrect


• hyperonym


• hyphen (-)


• hypocorism


• hypocoristic


• hyponym


• hysterologia


• hysteron proteron


• I. A. Richards


• i.e. | e.g.


• iamb


• iambic pentameter


• Ibn Abi Ishaq


• ideogram


• ideograph


• idiolect


• idiom


• idiotism


• if | whether | when


• illative case


• illative particle


• illeism


• imperfect participle


• imperfect tense


• imply | infer


• indefinite pronoun


• independent clause


• independent marker word


• indirect object


• Indo-European


• infinitive


• infix


• inflection


• inflectional root


• initialism


• intensifier


• intensive pronoun


• interfix


• interjection


• interpunct (·)


• interrogative pronoun


• intransitive verb


• iota


• iota subscript


• irony


• irony mark


• isocolon


• Jacob Grimm


• James Murray


• Janus word


• jargon


• Johnson's Dictionary Preface


• John Wallis


• Jonathan Edwards


• jot


• Julius Caesar


• kenning


• Kentish


• kinesics


• koinon


• laconism


• langue


• langue d'oc


• langue d'oïl


• Late Latin


• lemma


• lemmatize


• lexeme


• lexical root


• lexicographer


• lexicon


• ligature


• lingua franca


• Lingua Tertii Imperii


• linguistics


• lipography


• litotes


• loan blend


• loanshift


• loan translation


• loanword


• loath | loathe


• locative


• logogram


• logograph


• logomachy


• logonomy


• logorrhea


• long vowel


• loose | lose


• Low German


• Ludvic Zamenhof


• luxuriant | luxurious


• main entry


• majuscule


• malapropism


• Marcus van Boxhorn


• Medieval Latin


• meiosis


• Mercian


• merism


• Mesha Stele


• mesolect


• metagrammatism


• metalanguage


• metalepsis


• metalinguistics


• metallage


• metanalysis


• metanoia


• metaphor


• metaphoric extension


• metaplasm (linguistics)


• metaplasm (rhetoric)


• metastasis


• metathesis


• metonymy


• metronymic


• metronymy


• microlinguistics


• Middle English


• Middle French


• Middle High German


• Middle Low German


• militate | mitigate


• minimal pair


• minuscule


• mixed metaphor


• Modern English


• Modern Language Association (MLA)


• Modern Latin


• mondegreen


• monepic


• monophthong


• mood


• morpheme


• morphology


• mutated plurals


• mycterismus


• natural language


• near rhyme


• neologism


• New English Dictionary


• New High German


• Newspeak


• nice-nellyism


• Noah Webster


• Noam Chomsky


• nobiliary particle


• nominalization


• nominative


• nonce word


• non-restrictive clause


• Norman


• North Germanic


• North Sea Germanic


• Northumbrian


• nosism


• noun


• nounal clause


• noun clause


• noun phrase


• null comparative


• null subject language


• obelisk (†)


• obelism


• object


• object complement


• oblique (/)


• oblique case


• OED


• officious | official


• Oh | O


• Old English


• Old French


• Old High German


• Old Low German


• Old North French


• Old Saxon


• onomasticon


• onomastics


• onomatechny


• onomatopoeia


• onomatopoeic coinage


• optative mood


• Orbilius Pupillus


• ordinance | ordnance


• orthoepy


• orthography


• Otto Jespersen


• Oxford comma


• oxymoron


• palaeography


• palate


• palate | palette


• palindrome


• Panini


• parachesis


• paradigm


• paragoge


• paralanguage


• paralexia


• paralinguistics


• paralipsis


• parallelism


• paraphasia


• paraphrasia


• paraphrasis


• paraprosdokian


• parelcon (etymology)


• parelcon (rhetoric)


• parentheses ()


• paroemion


• parole


• paromoiosis


• paronomasia


• paronyms


• parse


• pars pro toto


• participle


• particle


• parts of speech


• passive voice


• past participle


• past perfect tense


• past tense


• pathos


• patois


• patronymic


• pejoration


• penultimate | ultimate


• perfect participle


• perfect tense


• period (.)


• periphrasis


• periphrasis (linguistics)


• periphrast


• perquisite | prerequisite


• personal pronoun


• perspicuous | perspicacious


• Peter Roget


• Peter T. Daniels


• petitio principii


• philology


• phone


• phoneme


• phonetics


• phonogram


• phonology


• phrasal adverb


• phrasal indefinite pronoun


• phrasal verb


• phrase


• pidgin


• pilcrow (¶)


• pleonasm


• pleonastic pronoun


• ploce


• pluperfect tense


• plural


• plurale tantum


• plural of majesty


• pointing


• pojmanym


• Politics and the English Language


• polyepic


• polyptote


• polyptoton


• polyseme


• polysemous


• polysemy


• polysyndeton


• portmanteau word


• possessive adjective


• possessive case


• possessive pronoun


• postfix


• postposition


• pragmatic particle


• predicate


• prefix


• premiss premise


• preposition


• preposition stranding


• prescriptivism


• present participle


• preterite


• principal | principle


• Principles of Newspeak


• Priscian


• privative


• privative alpha


• Probus


• proclitic


• progressive tense


• prolepsis


• pronominal adjective


• pronoun


• proper adjective


• proper noun


• proprietary name


• proslepsis


• prosody


• prosopopeia


• protasis


• prothesis


• Proto-Germanic


• protogram


• Proto-Indo-European


• Proto Language


• protologism


• proximal demonstrative


• pseudo-acronym


• punctuation


• punctuation mark


• punctus


• punctus percontativus


• question mark (?)


• Quintilian


• quotation marks (' ')(" ")


• Rasmus Rask


• recipient noun


• recursive acronym


• reduplication


• Reed-Kellogg diagrams


• referent


• reflexive pronoun


• reflexive verb


• register


• regretful | regrettable


• relative clause


• relative pronoun


• relativizer


• restrictive clause


• resultative adjective


• retronym


• reverse solidus (\)


• rhetoric


• rhetorical question


• rhetorical question mark


• rhopalic


• rhotacism


• Richard Trench


• Robert Lowth


• root


• Rosetta Project


• rune


• Samuel Johnson


• sans-serif


• Sapir–Whorf hypothesis


• sarcasm


• Saxon genitive


• Scandinavian


• scheme


• Scottish


• scratch comma (/)


• section (§)


• semantics


• semaphore


• semasiology


• sememe


• semicolon (;)


• semiotics


• sentence


• sentence adverb


• separatrix (|)


• serial comma


• serif


• sesquipedalian


• shall will


• shear | sheer


• shibboleth


• shorthand


• short vowel


• Siamese twins


• sideroxylon


• sigmatism


• sign


• sign (Saussure)


• signifier


• SIL International Ethnologue


• simile


• simple adverb


• simple sentence


• singular


• singular "they"


• singulare tantum


• slang


• sniglet


• sociolect


• soft palate


• solecism


• solidus (⁄)


• soraismus


• speaking in tongues


• spelling numbers


• split infinitive


• spoonerism


• Sprachraum


• square brackets ([ ])


• stationary | stationery


• stem


• stenography


• strong and weak verbs


• StudlyCaps


• subject


• subject complement


• subordinate clause


• subordinate conjunction


• subordinator


• substantive


• such as


• suffix


• superlative


• superlative of two


• superordinate


• supine


• suppletion


• suspended compound adjective


• suspended hyphen


• suspension point (…)


• SVO


• swung dash (~)


• syllabary


• syllabification


• syllable


• syllepsis


• synaeresis


• synaesthesia (literary)


• synaesthesia (medical)


• synaloepha


• synchysis


• syncopation


• syncope


• synecdoche


• synonym


• synonymia


• synonymy


• syntax


• synthetic language


• systole


• systrophe


• tachygraphy


• tapinosis


• tautology


• tense


• terminology


• tetrakis legomenon


• The King's English


• theophoric


• the Queen's English


• theronym


• thesaurus


• the substantive verb


• Thomas Young


• tilde (~)


• titillate | titivate


• tittle


• tmesis


• toneme


• toponomastics


• toponym


• toponymy


• tortuous | torturous


• totum pro parte


• transferred epithet


• transitive verb


• tricolon


• triphthong


• tris legomenon


• trope


• tuism


• turbid | turgid


• tushery


• typeface


• umlaut(¨)


• uncial


• unexceptionable | unexceptional


• unicameral alphabet


• Urheimat


• Ursprache


• uvula


• uvular trill


• vague word


• valency


• velopharyngeal insufficiency


• venal | venial


• verb


• verbals


• verbicide


• verbigeration


• vernacular


• virgule (/)


• vocative


• voice


• vowel


• vowel gradation


• vulgarism


• Vulgar Latin


• Wanderwort


• Wardour Street English


• weak verb


• weather "it"


• West Germanic


• West Saxon


• Wilhelm von Humboldt


• William Bullokar


• William Caxton


• William Jones


• William Spooner


• William Whewell


• Witzelsucht


• writer's cramp


• xenoglossia


• xenoglossy


• zero copula


• zeugma


• Zipf's law