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 3 of 33: from “antigraph” to “attribute”.
- antigraph noun A manuscript from which a copy (apograph) is made.
- antinarrative noun A narrative, as of a play or novel, that deliberately avoids the typical conventions of the narrative, such as a coherent plot and…
- antipassive adj Relating to the antipassive voice.
- antiphony noun Synonym of apophony (“contrastive vowel modification”).
- antisymmetry noun A theory of syntactic linearization, proposing that hierarchical structure in natural language maps universally onto a particular surface…
- antiunification noun The most specific term in a language that describes the terms in some given set.
- antonym noun A word which has the opposite meaning of another word.
- anubandha noun Characters added before or after a Sanskrit stem (or other morpheme), used as marker to convey a grammatical operation such as accentuation…
- anuvrtti noun In the Paninian grammar of Sanskrit, the "carrying over" of earlier-described rules into subsequent contexts, without explicitly restating…
- aorist noun A verb paradigm found in certain languages, usually an unmarked form or one that expresses the perfective or aorist aspect.
- aorist aspect noun A temporal feature of the verb which denotes the speaker's standpoint of the event described by the verb, as from outside of the event and…
- aorist tense noun A grammatical category in some languages expressing perfective aspect and past tense of verbs; the aorist.
- AP noun Initialism of adjective phrase or adverbial phrase.
- apheresis noun Elision, suppression, or complete loss of a letter or sound (syllable) from the beginning of a word, such as the development of special…
- aphetic adj Of, relating to, or formed by aphesis.
- aphetically adv In an aphetic way: through aphesis.
- aphetized adj Having undergone aphesis, the removal of an unstressed initial vowel.
- aphthong noun A letter or combination of letters employed in spelling a word but not pronounced; a silent letter or polygraph
- apical noun A sound produced by obstructing the air passage with the tip of the tongue.
- apico- prefix Articulated with the tip of the tongue.
- apicodental adj Made with the apex of the tongue touching the upper front of the teeth, as in apicodental stop.
- apo koinou noun A blend of two asyndetically connected clauses through a lexical word that has two syntactical functions, one in each of the blended…
- apocopate verb To shorten using apocope; to remove the final sound or syllable.
- apocope noun The loss or omission of the last vowel in a word, together with any consonants that follow it.
- apologetic apostrophe noun An apostrophe added to a Scots word in order to give the appearance that it is a contraction of an English word.
- apophony noun Modification of an internal vowel sound in a word or linguistic root, especially so as to establish a lexical distinction.
- apparatus noun In an edition, a system of notations providing information, especially regarding variant readings of a text (a critical apparatus)
- appealer noun A speech act intended as an appeal.
- appellative adj Of or pertaining to an appellative noun or common noun.
- applicative noun A grammatical construct that casts a peripheral noun phrase as direct object.
- applied linguistics noun The interdisciplinary field of linguistics that identifies, investigates and offers solutions to language-related real-life problems.
- apposition noun A construction in which one noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, both of them having the same syntactic…
- appositional noun A compound or construction with apposed elements.
- appositive noun a word or phrase that is in apposition
- apprehensive noun A mood indicating an undesired outcome.
- approbative noun A word or grammatical form which denotes a positive affect expressing the appreciation or approval of the speaker.
- approximant noun A consonant sound made by slightly narrowing the vocal tract, while still allowing a smooth flow of air. Liquids and glides are…
- approximation noun The act of producing a near-simulation of the pronunciation of a foreign language for a loanword therefrom, or any given pronunciation…
- approximative noun A grammatical construct that expresses approximation.
- appurtenance noun A modifier that is appended or prepended to another word to coin a new word that expresses belonging.
- Arabist noun A scholar who studies Arab or Arabic culture, politics, or language.
- Arameogram noun The spelling of an Aramaic word employed as a logogram to represent another word in another language when writing this language, such as…
- Arawakan adj Of or relating to a language family that developed among ancient indigenous peoples in South America and migrated to Central America and…
- arbitrary adj Not representative or symbolic; not iconic.
- arc noun Ellipsis of story arc.
- archaic adj No longer in ordinary use, though still used occasionally to give a sense of antiquity and still likely to be understood by well-educated…
- Archaic Greek adj Of or pertaining to the Archaic Greek language.
- archetype noun A protograph (“original manuscript of a text from which all further copies derive”).
- archiphoneme noun A unit representing two or more underlying phonemes, where the distinction between them has been neutralized under certain conditions.
- argument noun Any of the phrases that bear a syntactic connection to the verb of a clause.
- argument mining noun A research area that aims to automatically extract and identify argumentative structures from text using computer programs.
- argumentality noun The property of having one or more arguments; the syntactic connection between the verb of a clause and related phrases.
- arithmography noun The encoding of words as numbers
- arity noun the number of arguments (in Lojban grammar called sumti) specified in the definition of a selbri. (the selbri combined with the sumti make…
- armchair linguistics noun Any linguistic enterprise employing introspection rather than empirical methods, such as elicitation.
- arrogative adj Exhibiting scope arrogation; expanding the scope of a word to refer to more of a sentence than the minimal possibility.
- arthrous adj Of, pertaining to, or being the use of a term together with a grammatical article.
- article noun A part of speech that indicates, specifies and limits a noun (a, an, or the in English). In some languages the article may appear as an…
- articloid noun markers of linguistic definiteness that have not become grammaticalized, or incorporated into the grammar of the language
- articulable adj Capable of being pronounced or expressed distinctly in speech.
- articular adj Of or relating to the grammatical article.
- articulated adj Qualified by an article
- articulation noun The mechanism by which a sound is formed in the vocal tract.
- articulator noun Any organ in the vocal tract used to articulate, produce speech.
- articulatory adj Of or pertaining to articulation; phonetic.
- artificial language noun A constructed language.
- Aryan noun Synonym of Indo-Iranian (“member of any peoples speaking an Indo-Iranian language.”)
- ascensive adj Augmentative; intensive.
- Asclepiadean adj In the form of Asclepiads.
- aspect noun A grammatical quality of a verb which determines the relationship of the speaker to the internal temporal flow of the event which the verb…
- aspective adj Pertaining to or supporting grammatical aspect.
- aspectology noun An area of semantics concerned with verbal aspect.
- aspectual adj Of or pertaining to grammatical aspect.
- aspectualize verb To impart a particular aspect to a verb.
- asper noun Rough breathing; a mark (#) indicating that part of a word is aspirated, or pronounced with h before it.
- aspirate noun The puff of air accompanying the release of a plosive or fricative consonant.
- aspirated adj Pronounced with an audible breath, a brief expulsion of air at the end of the sound.
- aspirated h noun In the French language, usage of the letter h at the start of a word which does not allow liaison with a preceding consonant or elision of…
- aspiration noun A burst of air that follows the release of some consonants.
- assertative noun An utterance or construct that asserts something.
- asseverative noun A linguistic structure that serves to emphasize the certainty or truth of a statement.
- assibilate verb To change into or pronounce with the accompaniment of a sibilant sound or sounds.
- assimilation noun A sound change process by which the phonetics of a speech segment becomes more like that of another segment in a word (or at a word…
- associative plural noun A form of plural — typically used with a name, title or kinship term — which collectively refers to all those people associated with the…
- assonance noun The repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds (though with different consonants), usually in literature or poetry.
- assonant adj Characterized by assonance; having successive similar vowel sounds.
- asyndesis noun Synonym of asyndeton: lack or omission of conjunctions, especially for rhetorical effect.
- asyndetic adj Of, related to, or characterized by asyndeton, lacking conjunctions or purposefully omitting conjunctions.
- asyndetically adv Expressed without conjunctions or with conjunctions purposefully omitted.
- ateji noun The use of kanji chosen primarily for their phonetic (narrow sense) or semantic (broad sense) value to represent foreign or native Japanese…
- atelic adj That expresses lacking an end, resolution, or finite purpose.
- atonal adj Not tonal, lacking tones.
- atonic noun A sound with lack of tone or vocality.
- attestation noun An appearance in print or otherwise recorded on a permanent medium.
- attested adj Of words or languages, proven to have existed by records.
- attic adj Of or related to Attic Greek.
- Atticistic adj related to the Attic style of grammar, syntax, etc
- attitudinal noun A particle that conveys the emotion, tone, mood, or feeling of the speaker.
- attraction noun An error in language production that incorrectly extends a feature from one word in a sentence to another, e.g. when a verb agrees with a…
- attribute noun A word that qualifies a noun.