adj
(linguistics, of a constructed language) Developed on a basis of languages which already exist.
adj
(linguistics, sociolinguistics) Of a language or dialect (a lect), being different from another lect in its intrinsic linguistic features (as opposed to extrinsic features such as social, political or legal status)
adj
Relating to accentology.
adj
(linguistics) Of or pertaining to an acrolect, or standard dialect
n
(linguistics) Any language having elements that are responsible for change in neighbouring languages
adj
Of or pertaining to alphamosaics.
adj
Of or pertaining to anacronyms.
adj
(rare) Anilingual, relating to anilingus.
adj
Alternative form of antonomastic [(rhetoric) Relating to, or characterized by, antonomasia.]
n
(linguistics) The interdisciplinary field of linguistics that identifies, investigates and offers solutions to language-related real-life problems.
n
(linguistics, informal) Any linguistic enterprise employing introspection rather than empirical methods, such as elicitation.
n
Synonym of xenolinguistics
adj
(linguistics) of, or relating to a basilect
adj
(linguistics) Of or relating to Behaghel's laws, formulated by the linguist Otto Behaghel, which describe the basic principles behind the position of words and phrases in a sentence.
adj
Of, or pertaining to a caconym.
n
The equivalent of phonology for sign languages.
adj
Having, or relating to, the same language.
n
(linguistics) A branch of historical linguistics that is concerned with comparing languages in order to establish their historical relatedness.
n
(linguistics) The study of language contact
adj
(linguistics) Of or relating to cotext.
adj
Of or relating to a counterlanguage.
adj
(linguistics, rare) Relating to, or fostering, the formation of a creole.
adj
Relating to cryptolinguists or cryptolinguistics.
adj
Of or pertaining to cryptonyms.
adj
Relating to cyberlinguistics.
adj
(linguistics) Relating to cyberpragmatics.
adj
Relating to demolinguistics.
adj
Of or pertaining to denotation.
n
(linguistics) Synonym of historical linguistics
n
(linguistics) One who takes a diachronic approach.
adj
Of or relating to a dialect.
n
(linguistics) A person who studies regional differences in speech sounds.
n
(linguistics) The study of the regional distribution of dialects.
adj
(linguistics) That varies depending on social, cultural or educational factors
adj
(linguistics) Of or pertaining to a diasystem or diasystems.
adj
(linguistics) Of or relating to diglossia.
adj
(linguistics, education) Relating to, or forming part of, the typical language used in a particular field of study.
adj
Of or pertaining to discography.
n
(linguistics) A paradigm of linguistic research which emerged in the 1990s and takes into account not only the social context in which language is embedded, but also the ecological context in which societies are embedded.
adj
Of or pertaining to enthymeme.
adj
Relating to epilanguage.
adj
(literature, information science) Of or relating to a literary work that requires nontrivial effort on the reader's part to traverse.
adj
Rare spelling of etymologic. [Of or pertaining to etymologies; concerning etymology.]
n
(linguistics) A young branch of linguistics which deals with questions on the languages of Europe.
adj
(linguistics) Describing a non-indigenous language that is the main or the official language of a region or country
adj
(linguistics) Based on shared membership in a linguistic family.
adj
Of or pertaining to glosses or to a glossary.
adj
Of, relating to, or characteristic of glossators.
adj
Relating to glossematics.
adj
(linguistics) Of or pertaining to the emergence of linguistic forms over time.
adj
Of or pertaining to glossography.
n
The study of ancient words or languages
adj
Of or pertaining to glossology.
n
The science of language; linguistics.
adj
Of or relating to glossopoeia.
n
The study of languages to determine when they diverged from being the same language.
n
The study of language origins.
n
(rare) The absorption or replacement of minor languages or dialects by major ones.
adj
Synonym of lexicogrammatical
adj
Relating to grammatology.
adj
Relating to grammatology.
adj
Relating to grammemes.
adj
(sociology, linguistics) Of, relating to, or characterized by heteroglossia.
n
(linguistics) The scientific study of language change.
adj
Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting homoglossia.
adj
Being, or pertaining to, an ideogram.
adj
Of or relating to idioglossia.
adj
Of or relating to an idiolect.
adj
(obsolete) Of or relating to the theory that the words or names for things are formed by imitating the sounds associated with those things.
adj
Of or pertaining to interlinguistics.
adj
Linguistic, language-only; due to linguistic factors and processes; contrasted with extra-linguistic.
n
(linguistics) The phenomenon in which speakers of two or more languages or varieties interact and influence each other.
n
(linguistics) Synonym of linguistic ecology
adj
Resembling language; linguistical.
adj
Of or relating to speech, words, or learning.
adj
Of or pertaining to lexicogrammar.
adj
Like a dictionary, relating to lexicography (the writing of a dictionary).
adj
pertaining to lexicology
adj
Relating to lexis and pragmatics.
adj
Relating to language and the ways it is used in culture.
adj
(linguistics, relational) Related to language or linguistics.
adj
Characteristic of or pertaining to linguicism.
n
One who studies linguistics.
adj
(computing) Relating to a computer language.
n
(anthropology, originally and chiefly US) The branch of anthropology that studies language and language use.
n
(linguistics) The study of how languages interact with each other and the places in which they are spoken.
n
(linguistics) The differential in skills of a polyglot among the languages they know.
adj
(colloquial) Of, pertaining to, involved in, or interested in linguistics.
adj
(rare) Of or pertaining to both language and culture.
adj
Involving both logic and language.
adj
Of or pertaining to logograms; logographic.
adj
Alternative form of logogrammatic [Of or pertaining to logograms; logographic.]
adj
Of, related to, or composed of logographs.
adj
(linguistics) Of or pertaining to conceptual patterns or mental categories of words and their referents.
adj
Of or pertaining to logomachy.
adj
Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting logophilia, the love of words and word games.
adj
(linguistics, of a pronoun) Exhibiting the property of a logophor.
adj
Of or pertaining to logopoeia.
adj
Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting logorrhea, the excessive flow of words
adj
Of or pertaining to logosyllables.
n
(linguistics) A historical linguist engaged in search of long-range relationships among already established language families by comparing proto-languages.
n
(linguistics) The acquisition of a second language by a speech community.
adj
Pertaining to macrolinguistics.
n
(rare) Alternative spelling of mesolect [(sociolinguistics) A variety of speech that is midway between the acrolect and the basilect.]
adj
Relating to metacinema.
adj
Relating to a metacorpus
adj
Relating to metagrammar.
n
One who studies metalexicography.
adj
Relating to metalexicography.
adj
Relating to metalexicography.
adj
Relating to metalanguage
adj
Pertaining to metalinguistics.
n
A language used to define, analyze, or describe a metalanguage.
adj
Relating to metaphonology
adj
Relating to metarepresentation.
n
A branch of linguistics that concerns itself with the study of language systems in the abstract, without regard to the meaning of expressions.
n
A xenolect that has become separated from its matrilect both geographically and communicatively.
adj
Of or pertaining to mnemotechny.
n
(linguistics) The theory that all languages, or a particular set of languages, originated from a single source.
adj
Alternative form of monographic [Of or pertaining to a monograph or treatise.]
adj
Of or relating to a single language.
adj
(linguistics) Of, relating to, or characteristic of native speakers.
adj
Of or pertaining to neologisms.
n
Synonym of cyberlinguistics
adj
(linguistics) Of, relating to, or characteristic of non-native speakers.
adj
(Romani linguistics) Having an inflection and stress pattern characteristic of pre-European vocabulary.
adj
(linguistics, of a language) Using a relatively small number of morphemes and having a lower morpheme-to-word ratio.
adj
(comparative linguistics, derogatory) having a tendency to compare disparate elements of language (e.g. different forms, unrelated languages) in an attempt to establish parallels
adj
Of or relating to onomastics.
n
(rare) The study of child language.
adj
Having the form of a pangram.
adj
Pertaining to, or communicated through, paralexicon (parallel vocabulary, e.g. ritual or secret cant, formal jargon)
n
The study of paralanguage.
adj
Of or pertaining to paronomasia
adj
(linguistics) Pertaining to historical linguistics.
adj
Of or pertaining to philology.
adj
Of or pertaining to phraseology.
adj
Relating to phronesis.
n
(linguistics) A large division of possibly related languages, or a major language family which is not subordinate to another.
n
(linguistics) A linguist who specialises in studying pidgins.
adj
(linguistics, rare) Relating to, or fostering, the formation of a pidgin.
adj
(linguistics) Pertaining to meaning, as opposed to structure or syntax.
adj
Relating to a polysyllogism.
n
One who studies pragmalinguistics.
adj
Of or relating to pragmalinguistics.
adj
(rare) Of the nature of prosiopesis; compare aposiopetic.
adj
Relating to prosopopoeia
adj
Of or pertaining to a prosyllogism
n
(linguistics) The early utterances produced by an infant before it acquires true language.
adj
Of or relating to proto-language.
adj
Relating to protolanguage or protolinguistics.
adj
Relating to pseudolanguage.
n
(linguistics) The way in which a language learner perceives differences and similarities between languages, affecting how he/she communicates in those languages.
adj
Having, or appearing to have, certain aspects or properties of linguistics; apparently, but not actually, linguistic.
adj
(linguistics) Of or relating to a referent.
adj
Being or relating to a retronym.
adj
(linguistics) Of or pertaining to a rheme.
n
(lexicography, Indo-Aryan linguistics) A semi-learned borrowing from Sanskrit.
adj
(linguistics) Of or relating to a developmental stage in which the language user has only a limited grasp of phonetic aspects.
n
(linguistics) The study of social and cultural effects on language and vice-versa.
n
(linguistics, uncountable) A branch of linguistics studying sociolinguistic aspects of phonology; the interaction between sociolinguistics and phonology.
n
(linguistics) One who believes that creoles take their structure from their substrate languages.
n
(linguistics) A proponent of substratism.
adj
Of or pertaining to a syllogism.
adj
(linguistics) Relating to the study of a language at only one point in its history.
adj
(linguistics) Relating or according to the linguist Leonard Talmy.
adj
(linguistics) Relating or according to the linguist Leonard Talmy.
adj
Relating to teknonymy.
n
(translation studies) A person who studies and uses terminology, especially in professional translation project management.
adj
Of or pertaining to theolinguistics.
adj
Pertaining or relating to languages; lingual, linguistic.
adj
Pertaining to the translation of language.
adj
(translation studies) Of or pertaining to translatology.
n
(linguistics) Classification of languages according to their linguistic trait (as opposed to ancestrality like Romance languages).
adj
Of or pertaining to a language that is used as a contact language between two groups who do not share a common native tongue nor a common culture.
adj
Of or pertaining to vocabulary.
adj
(cognitive linguistics) Relating to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which proposes a form of linguistic relativity, i.e. that the structure of a language affects the ways in which its speakers conceptualize their world.
adj
Exhibiting or relating to xenoglossy.
adj
(linguistics) Of, or relating to a xenolect.
adj
Of, or pertaining to a xenonym.
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