n
Alternative form of agrammatism [The inability to form sentences by virtue of a brain disorder.]
adj
(very rare) Of or pertaining to an alethonym.
adj
Having qualities of or resembling an anacoluthon.
adj
(linguistics) Avoiding a hiatus.
adj
(rhetoric) Relating to, or characterized by, antonomasia.
adj
Of or relating to an apostrophe.
n
(linguistics) An area of semantics concerned with verbal aspect.
adj
(linguistics) Of a root, not having a thematic vowel and thus attaching inflections directly to the root.
adj
(linguistics) related to the Attic style of grammar, syntax, etc
n
The state of being bilingual.
n
A confusion between hierarchical levels; a two-way dependency relation, such as that between a subject and a finite verb.
n
(semiotics) A term for a specific period of time, such as "summer" or "week."
n
(linguistics) The degree to which two languages share cognates, usually expressed as a percentage
adj
(linguistics) Relating to a context-sensitive grammar.
n
(semantics) Ostensive definition.
n
The study of change over time, especially changes to language
adj
Synonym of dialectal (“of, or peculiar to a dialect”)
adv
In terms of, or by means of, a dictionary or dictionaries collectively.
adj
(linguistics) Featuring diæresis.
adj
Relating to discourse.
adj
(linguistics, of a verb) Relating to the speaker's perspective or identity.
n
(linguistics, of a verb) The state of being egophoric.
n
(linguistics) A mesoclitic; a clitic inserted inside a word.
n
A use of endophora; an endophoric expression.
n
(linguistics) The meaning expressed by a tagmeme.
adj
Of or relating to an eponym.
n
(linguistics) The study of ethnonyms.
n
An experiment where an infant is isolated from the normal use of language in an attempt to discover the fundamental character of human nature or the origin of language.
n
The study of the semantics, or interpretations, of formal languages.
n
(linguistics) A semantic frame in the FrameNet project
adj
(linguistics, of a language) Tending to overlay many morphemes in a manner that can be difficult to segment.
adj
Relating to grammar and pragmatics.
adj
(linguistics) Relating to grammar and semantics.
n
A single word or symbol that can have different but related meanings.
n
(linguistics) A word shared by two languages or dialects.
adj
(linguistics) Exhibiting hyperthesis, long-distance metathesis
adj
(linguistics) Of, pertaining to, or deriving from illocution, the performance of acts by speaking.
n
(semantics) The belief that language acquires meaning from thought or belief, which is fundamentally non-linguistic, and that propositions are therefor independent of language.
adj
(linguistics, translation studies) Contained within the same language; involving a monolingual process.
adj
Within a single language; contrasted with cross-linguistic.
adj
(linguistics) Within a single speaker of a language.
adj
(linguistics) Pertaining to languages in which grammatical information is conveyed through the insertion of a pattern of vowels into a consonantal root, also called root-and-pattern.
adj
Involving or indicating the same vocabulary.
n
(linguistics) The repetition of a basic meaning trait (seme) within a story.
adv
(linguistics, lexicography) On a lemma-by-lemma basis, considering only lemmata.
n
Synonym of lexical scoping
n
The degree to which something is lexical.
adj
(linguistics) Pertaining to the grammatical properties of individual words, or more particularly to subclasses of words.
n
(linguistics) A string-matching pattern based on text tokens and syntactic structure.
n
(linguistics) lexis and syntax considered together
adj
(linguistics) modified to or by a lexifier
n
The quality of being lingual.
n
The levels of official use or representation of languages that are perceived not to reflect their use in the population.
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The condition of being logophoric
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The use of macaronic language; The mixing of two or more languages in a single work.
adj
(rare) Relating to a meronym or meronyms.
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A clitic inserted inside a word (such as between a stem and a suffix).
adj
Relating to metacommunication.
adj
Pertaining to metapragmatics.
adj
(linguistics, computing) Used in describing syntax; relating to metasyntax.
n
The syntax of a metalanguage.
adj
(linguistics) Exhibiting metathesis.
n
(linguistics) The morphosyntactic change that a language undergoes due to its speakers being bilingual.
n
(linguistics) A particular approach to the architecture of the language organ, based on the principle that the syntactic relation 'X complement of Y' is identical to an inverse-order morphological relation 'X specifier of Y'.
adj
(not comparable) Having or known by a single name.
n
Abbreviation of morphology. [(linguistics) The study of the internal structure of morphemes (words and their semantic building blocks).]
n
(linguistics, formal) Grammar.
n
(linguistics) The relationship between morphology and semantics.
adj
Pertaining to morphosyntax.
n
(linguistics) Morphology and syntax regarded as an interlinked unit.
n
(linguistics) An approach to syntax in which the terminal nodes of syntactic parse trees may be reduced to units smaller than a morpheme.
n
(linguistics, especially of a term whose range of meanings has been semotactically restricted) The quality or state of having a few meanings, as opposed to having a single meaning or many meanings.
adj
(linguistics) (of a language) using a relatively small number of morphemes which combine synthetically to form compound words.
n
(linguistics) A branch of lexicology concerned with the names of concepts.
n
(rare, obsolete) prognostication by the letters of a name
n
(orthography) A word that differs from another word of the same length by only one letter.
n
(semantics) A process of binding the meaning to the defined term by pointing out examples and counterexamples.
adj
Relating to paradoxography.
adj
(linguistics) Relating to, or employing, anomalous grammar.
adj
Of the nature of a parallelism; involving parallelism.
n
(grammar) The formation of words in which the prefixing and the suffixing are involved simultaneously, as in multifaceted.
adj
Pertaining to or using parataxis.
adj
Being or relating to a paronym.
n
The use of several names for the same thing in the same document.
n
The use of names that are polynyms.
n
The use of polysynthetic grammar.
adj
(linguistics) Relating to, or taking the form of, a postfix.
n
(linguistics) A hypothetical form of a word, reconstructed from derived words.
adj
of, or relating to protosyntax
adj
quasilinguistic. Having some qualities similar to language, but not quite amounting to language in the narrow sense.
adj
(linguistics, syntax) Making use of satellite-framing.
n
(linguistics) The stance that linguistic signs act (or approach acting) as fixed codes with invariant pairings of form and meaning.
n
A diachronic differentiation or change in meaning.
n
A system of the brain where logical concepts relating to the outside world are stored.
n
(linguistics) An impairment in comprehending pragmatic aspects of language.
adj
(grammar) Of or relating to the semelfactive aspect.
n
(linguistics) A word having a similar function to a copula, such as feel or seem in English.
n
(linguistics) A combination of one or more semons that has a lexeme as a realization.
n
A word, phrase, or sentence that has the property of forming another word, phrase, or sentence when its letters are reversed. A semordnilap differs from a palindrome in that the word or phrase resulting from the reversal is different from the original word or phrase.
n
(linguistics) The modification of the meaning of a word by interaction with the surrounding words
n
Synonym of lexical scoping
n
(linguistic morphology) The morpheme which does so.
n
(linguistics) The property of being a subconstituent.
n
(linguistics) A part or component of a syntactic, morphological, or phonetic constituent.
adj
(linguistics) Referring to constituent parts of a word.
adj
(grammar) At a lower level than that of morphemes
adj
(linguistics, of a word or phrase) hypernymic
adj
(linguistics, of a term) Needing other terms in order to make a meaningful constituent of language.
n
Alternative form of synchysis [(poetics) A complicated, interlocking word-order pattern in early Latin verse, demonstrated by Virgil and his contemporaries.]
n
(linguistics) One who takes a synchronic approach.
adj
(linguistics) Relating to a historical tendency for a language (such as English) to reduce its use of inflection.
n
(Ancient Greece) The unification of towns, tribes etc. under one capital city or polis.
adj
(semantics) Of, relating to, or being a synonym.
n
A person who studies synonyms.
adj
(linguistics) Having a meaning only when in the company of other words.
n
(information science) A set of one or more synonyms that are interchangeable in some context without changing the truth value of the proposition in which they are embedded.
adj
Of, related to or connected with syntax.
n
(computing) Additions to the syntax of a computer language that make code easier for humans to read or write, but that do not change the functionality or expressiveness of the language.
adj
syntactic, related to syntax
n
(linguistics) An approach that focuses on syntax.
adj
(linguistics) Focused on the syntactic component of grammar.
adj
(linguistics) Relating to syntax and meaning.
n
(linguistics) A focus on the role of syntax in language.
n
(linguistics) Alternative form of syntagma [(linguistics) A constituent segment within a text, such as a word or a phrase that forms a syntactic unit.]
n
(linguistics) A constituent segment within a text, such as a word or a phrase that forms a syntactic unit.
n
(linguistics) A syntactic construction viewed as a sequence of its tagmemes.
adj
Pertaining to syntagmemes.
n
Synonym of parse tree (more commonly used in theoretical syntax)
n
(crystallography) Syntaxy.
n
A classification system based on syntaxa
n
(theology, historical) An aspect of one's conscience by which one can judge wrong from right and decide on what makes good conduct (as distinguished from syneidesis).
adj
(linguistics) Of a language, having a grammar principally dependent on the use of bound morphemes to indicate syntactic relationships (compare analytic).
adj
Pertaining to tagmemics.
adj
(linguistics) Restricted to fit into a specific, limited pattern of possible structures or shapes, rather than resulting from the application of a simple generative rule.
adj
(translation studies) Operating between different languages.
n
(linguistics, countable) A specific phenomenon of translingually relevant aspects of language, such as a term or symbol used in more than one language.
n
The use of trinomial nomenclature.
n
(linguistics) The property of being a xenolect.
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