This page gathers the 3,299 dictionary entries belonging to the domain “Linguistics”, as labelled by Wiktionary. Each word leads to its full entry: definitions, etymology, pronunciation, examples. Page 20 of 33: from “non-finite verb” to “orthographically”.
- non-finite verb noun A verb form that lacks a subject, is not inflected by tense, aspect, mood, number, gender or person and cannot serve as a predicate.
- non-gradable noun Any adjective that is not gradable.
- non-native speaker noun Someone who has another native tongue than the language being used.
- non-past adj Of a tense, not pertaining to the past; in particular, applicable to both the present and the future.
- non-prevocalic adj (Of a phoneme) occurring before a consonant or pause but not occurring before a vowel, as in rhotic dialects.
- non-referring adj Describing an inflection that conveys the lack of referentiality, turning the referential noun non-referring.
- non-restrictive relative clause noun A relative clause, usually set off by a comma or commas, that provides additional information about the person or thing referred to, or…
- non-sibilant adj Not sibilant; not having the characteristics of a sibilant consonant.
- non-target-like adj Of a linguistic feature produced by a language learner: unlike that linguistic feature as it occurs in the target language.
- non-verbal adj Of or relating to a word that belongs to any part of speech other than that of verbs.
- non-word noun Any sequence of sounds or letters which is not considered to be a word, whether through an accidental gap (for example…
- nonaffixed adj Having no affixes; composed of a single morpheme.
- nonback adj Not back; not produced at the back of the mouth.
- nonce noun A nonce word.
- nonclause noun An utterance that is nonclausal, such as a noun phrase, prepositional phrase, or interjection.
- nondiegetic adj Not existing within a fictional universe, rather existing in the background, and unable to be perceived by the characters.
- nonfinite adj Not finite.
- nonfinite clause noun A clause that contains a verb in a nonfinite form, such as an infinitive or a gerund, that lacks tense, mood, or subject-verb agreement…
- nonfricative noun Any sound that is not a fricative.
- nonlabial noun Any sound that is not a labial.
- nonnasal noun A sound that is not nasal.
- nonpalatal noun Any sound that is not a palatal.
- nonpalatalization noun The state or quality of not being palatalized, of not pronouncing a sound with the tongue against the palate of the mouth.
- nonpredicate adj Not of or pertaining to a predicate.
- nonpresent adj Not of or pertaining to the present.
- nonreferential adj Synonym of non-referring.
- nonround adj Having qualities the opposite of a round vowel.
- nonstandard adj Not conforming to the standard variety, or to the language as used by the majority of its speakers.
- nonstative noun A construct that is not stative.
- nonstop noun A linguistic sound that is not a stop; a continuant.
- nonsyllabic noun A sound that is not syllabic.
- nonterm noun That which is not a term.
- nontonal adj Related to the non-tonal languages.
- nonvirile adj Pertaining to a grammatical gender used in some Slavic languages for plurals of masculine animate, masculine inanimate, feminine, and…
- nordic adj Of or relating to the family of North Germanic languages.
- notional adj Having descriptive value as opposed to a syntactic category.
- noun noun A word that functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such as person, animal, place, word, thing, phenomenon…
- noun adjunct noun A noun that modifies another noun (thus functioning adjectivally) and that is grammatically optional; it may be a single word or a compound…
- noun class noun A grammatical category similar to gender in which nouns may be organized according to meaning, such as gender, animacy or shape.
- noun modifier noun Synonym of noun adjunct
- noun phrase noun A phrase that has a noun (or indefinite pronoun) as its head or performs the same grammatical function as a noun.
- noun substantive noun A word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea; one of the basic parts of…
- nounself pronoun noun A type of third-person singular neopronoun constructed (often as an in-group identifier or nonce word) from a referent noun.
- novum noun An innovation which is fictional, but, following the logic of cognitive estrangement (characteristic of science fiction), is afforded…
- nucleus noun The central part of a syllable, most commonly a vowel.
- null determiner noun A grammatical constituent that appears with certain types of nouns, such as bare plurals and mass nouns.
- null object noun An object that is not expressed by an explicit morpheme.
- nullar adj Pertaining to a language form referring to none of something; compare singular used for one and plural for more than one.
- number noun Of a word or phrase, the state of being singular, dual or plural, shown by inflection.
- numeral noun A number word, a simple or compound word for a number often having particular grammatical attributes depending on the language.
- nuncle noun Aunt or uncle; sibling of a parent (regardless of gender).
- nurse merger noun A phonemic merger occuring in most present accents of English where historic /ɛr/, /ɪr/, /ʊr~ʌr/ are pronounced identically.
- ô symbol A dictionary transcription for the THOUGHT vowel; also an orthographic ⟨o⟩ with a diacritic that marks it as having that value, as in the…
- ö symbol A dictionary transcription for the THOUGHT vowel
- object noun The noun phrase which is an internal complement of a verb phrase or a prepositional phrase. In a verb phrase with a transitive action verb…
- object language noun the language of the headwords in a dictionary (in a French-to-English translation dictionary, French is the object language)
- objective noun The objective case.
- objectless adj Without a grammatical object.
- obligatorification noun The act or process of, or an instance of, (something) becoming or being made (more) obligatory, especially as part of the process of…
- oblique noun The oblique case.
- oblique case noun Any noun case except the nominative case (and sometimes the vocative case), where the noun is the object of a verb or the object of a…
- observative noun An utterance that describes or calls attention to something that the speaker observes.
- obstruent noun A consonant sound formed by obstructing the airway, causing turbulence; a plosive, fricative, or affricate.
- obviate noun Synonym of obviative.
- obviative noun A grammatical marker that distinguishes a relatively non-salient referent in a given context from a relatively salient (proximate) one.
- occasionalism noun A nonce word.
- occludant noun Synonym of occlusive.
- occlusion noun A closure within the vocal tract that produces an oral stop or nasal stop.
- occlusive noun A speech sound produced by obstructing airflow in the oral vocal tract, but not necessarily into the nasal cavity.
- occupational name noun A name, especially a surname — such as Smith or Taylor — that is derived from an occupation, presumably that of a distant ancestor.
- occurrence noun The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that change in or over time.
- offglide noun A phase while the articulators are moving away from their position in articulating a speech sound.
- official language noun A language afforded an elevated status in a particular country, state, or other jurisdiction, typically for government use.
- o᷍i symbol An orthographic ⟨oi⟩ with a diacritic that marks it as being the CHOICE vowel, as in the word "oil".
- oligosemy noun The quality or state of having a few meanings, as opposed to having a single meaning or many meanings.
- omission noun The shortening of a word or phrase, using an apostrophe ( ' ) to replace the missing letters, often used to approximate the sound of speech…
- omnicomparativist adj having a tendency to compare disparate elements of language (e.g. different forms, unrelated languages) in an attempt to establish parallels
- omniscient narrator noun A narrator with an overarching perspective, seeing and knowing everything that happens within the world of the story, including what each…
- Omotic adj Of or pertaining to a language family, often grouped into the Afroasiatic language family, spoken in southwestern Ethiopia, some of which…
- onglide noun A phase while the articulators are moving into position to produce a new speech sound.
- onset noun The initial portion of a syllable, preceding the syllable nucleus.
- o͝o symbol A dictionary transcription for the FOOT vowel, used i.a. in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
- o͞o symbol A dictionary transcription for the GOOSE vowel, used i.a. in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
- open adj Ending in a vowel; not having a coda.
- open e noun The letter ⟨ɛ⟩.
- open o noun The letter ⟨ɔ⟩.
- open-mid adj pronounced with the tongue in a position approximately one-third of the way between an open and a close vowel
- operator noun A kind of expression that enters into an a-bar movement dependency and is said to bind a variable.
- optative noun A mood of verbs found in some languages (e.g. Sanskrit, Old Prussian, Tamil, and Ancient Greek, but not English), used to express a wish.
- optimality theory noun A linguistic model proposing that the observed forms of language arise from the interaction between conflicting constraints.
- oral adj Pronounced by the voice resonating in the mouth, as the vowels in English.
- oral myology noun The study and therapeutic intervention that deals with evaluating and treating the muscles in the mouth and face.
- ordinal number noun A word that expresses the relative position of an item in a sequence.
- orientative adj Transmitting the sense of orientation towards an entity.
- orismology noun The explanation of technical terms.
- ornative noun A noun case that means "endowed with" or "supplied with".
- orphan initialism noun An existing initialism which has been redefined as a nonacronymous name, severing its link to its previous meaning.
- orphaned negative noun A negative word or term (such as "disgruntled", "uncouth" or "incognito") that has no positive equivalent in current use.
- ortho noun Clipping of orthography.
- orthographically adv Regarding or relating to orthography (the way in which languages, usually natural languages, are written).