List of linguistics topics 152736 220969085 2008-06-22T13:16:37Z Wavelength 271168 /* Q */ adding 1 topic: [[Quirky subject]] ([[WP:O]]) '''[[Linguistics]]'''[[List of linguistic topics|&nbsp;]]<!-- (Since this list also serves as a maintenance page, the interested parties also want to know when changes are made to this list as well; so please do not remove the self-link.)-->is the [[scientific]] study of human [[language]]. Someone who engages in this study is called a '''[[linguist]]'''. ''See also the [[List of basic linguistics topics]], the [[List of phonetics topics]], the [[List of linguists]], and the [[List of cognitive science topics]].'' Topics on linguistics include: __NOTOC__ {{compactTOC}} == A == [[Abbreviation]] - [[Abessive case]] - [[Ablaut]] - [[Absolutive case]] - [[Abugida]] - [[Accusative case]] - [[Acute accent]] - [[Accent (language)|Accent]] - [[Acronym]] - [[Adessive case]] - [[Adjective]] - [[Adjunct]] - [[Adposition]] - [[Adpositional phrase]] - [[Adverb]] - [[Adverbial]] - [[Adverbial phrase]] - [[Affix]] - [[Affricate consonant]] - [[Agglutination]] - [[Agglutinative language]] - [[Allative case]] - [[Allomorph]] - [[Allophone]] - [[Alphabet]] - [[Analytic language]] - [[Anaphora]] - [[Anthropological linguistics]] - [[Alveolar consonant]] - [[Antonym]] - [[Approximant]] - [[Article (grammar)|Article]] - [[Articulatory gestures]] - [[Articulatory phonetics]] - [[Grammatical aspect|Aspect]] - [[Areal feature (linguistics)|Areal feature]] - [[Asterisk]] - [[Language attrition|Attrition]] - [[Augment (linguistics)|Augment]] - [[Auxiliary verb]] == B == [[Back-formation]] - [[Backronym]] - [[Bilabial consonant]] - [[Breathy voice]] - [[Breve]] == C == [[Calque]] - [[Capitalization]] - [[Capitonym]] - [[Cardinal vowel]] - [[Grammatical case|Case]] - [[Case in tiers]] - [[Cedilla]] - [[Chiasmus]] - [[Circumfix]] - [[Circumflex]] - [[Clefting]] - [[Click consonant]] - [[Closed-class word]] - [[Cognate]] - [[Cognitive science]] - [[Coherence (linguistics)|Coherence]] - [[Colloquialism]] - [[Comitative case]] - [[Communication skill]] [[Comparative]] - [[Comparative linguistics]] - [[Comparative method]] - [[Compound noun and adjective]] - [[Compound verb]] - [[Computer-assisted language learning]] - [[Computational linguistics]] - [[Grammatical conjugation|Conjugation]] - [[Conjunct]] - [[Grammatical conjunction|Conjunction]] - [[Consonant]] - [[Constructed language]] - [[Context (linguistics)|Context]] - [[Copula]] - [[Corpus]] - [[Corpus linguistics]] - [[Cranberry morpheme]] - [[Creaky voice]] - [[Creole language]] - [[Cryptanalysis]] - [[Cuneiform (script)|Cuneiform]] == D == [[Dangling modifier]] - [[Dative case]] - [[Decipherment]] - [[Declension]] - [[Defective verb]] - [[Descriptive linguistics]] - [[Dental consonant]] - [[Derivation (linguistics)|Derivation]] - [[Determiner]] - [[Diacritic]] - [[Diaeresis]] - [[Dialect]] - [[Dictionary]] - [[Diphthong]] - [[Discourse]] - [[Disjunct (linguistics)|Disjunct]] - [[Dislocation (syntax)|Dislocation]] - [[Double acute accent]] - [[Dual grammatical number]] == E == [[Ecolect]] - [[Eggcorn]] - [[Ecolinguistics]] - [[Elative case]] - [[Endangered language]] - [[English pronunciation]] - [[Entailment]] - [[Ergative case]] - [[Error]] - [[Essive case]] - [[Ethnologue]] - [[Etymology]] - [[Etymologist]] - [[Eurolinguistics]] - [[Evolutionary linguistics]] - [[Example-based machine translation]] - [[Expletive]] == F == [[False cognate]] - [[False friend]] - [[Formal language]] - [[Fricative consonant]] - [[Function word]] - [[Fusional language]] - [[Future tense]] == G == [[Grammatical gender|Gender]] - [[General semantics]] - [[Genitive case]] - [[Germanic umlaut]] - [[Gerund]] - [[Glottal consonant]] - [[Glottal stop]] - [[Glottochronology]] - [[Government (linguistic)|Government]] - [[Grammar]] - [[Grammatical mood]] - [[Grammatical number]] - [[Grammatical voice]] - [[Grave accent]] - [[Great Vowel Shift]] - [[Grimm's law]] - [[Guttural consonant]] == H == [[Hacek]] - [[Heaps' law]] - [[High rising terminal]] - [[Historical-comparative linguistics]] - [[Historical linguistics]] - [[History of linguistics]] - [[Homonym]] - [[Hypernym]] - [[Hyponym]] == I == [[I-mutation]] - [[Ideogram]] - [[Idiolect]] - [[Idiom]] - [[Illative case]] - [[Impersonal pronoun]] - [[Impersonal verb]] - [[Implication (pragmatics)]] - [[Indo-European languages]] - [[Inessive case]] - [[Infinitive]] - [[Infix]] - [[Inflected language]] - [[Inflection]] - [[Initialism]] - [[Initial-stress-derived noun]] - [[Instructive case]] - [[Interjection]] - [[International Phonetic Alphabet]] - [[IPA chart for English]] [[Irregular verb]] == J == Juxtapose (Juxtaposition) == K == == L == [[Labiodental consonant]] - [[Language]] - [[Language acquisition]] - [[Language attrition]] - [[Language ecology]] - [[Language education]] - [[Language families and languages]] - [[Language game]] - [[The Language Instinct]] - [[Language isolate]] - [[Laryngeal theory]] - [[Lateral consonant]] - [[Lemma (linguistics)|Lemma]] - [[Lexeme]] - [[Lexical semantics]] - [[Lexicography]] - [[Lexicology]] - [[Lexicon]] - [[Linguist]] - [[Linguistic layers]] - [[Anthropological linguistics|Linguistic anthropology]] - [[Linguistics]] - [[Linguistics basic topics]] - [[Liquid consonant]] - [[List of linguists]] - [[Loanword]] - [[Locative case]] == M == [[Machine translation]] - [[Macron]] - [[Manner of articulation]] - [[Meaning (linguistic)|Meaning]] - [[Meronymy]] - [[Metathesis]] - [[Minimal pair]] - [[Mispronunciation]] - [[Mora (linguistics)|Mora]] - [[Morpheme]] - [[Morphology (linguistics)|Morphology]] == N == [[Naming]] - [[Nasal consonant]] - [[Natural language]] - [[Natural language processing]] - [[Natural language understanding]] - [[Neologism]] - [[Neurolinguistics]] - [[Nominative case]] - [[Noun]] - [[Noun phrase]] - [[Null morpheme]] == O == [[Onomasiology]] - [[Onomatopoeia]] - [[Open class word]] - [[Optimality theory]] - [[Origin of language]] - [[Orthography]] - [[Object subject verb]] - [[Object verb subject]] - [[Oxytone]] == P == [[Palatal consonant]] - [[Paradigm]] - [[Paroxytone]] - [[Part of speech]] - [[Participle]] - [[Grammatical particle|Particle]] - [[Partitive case]] - [[Persuasion]] - [[Pharyngeal consonant]] - [[Philology]] - [[Philosophy of language]] - [[Phonation]] - [[Phone]] - [[Phonetics]] - [[Phonetic complement]] - [[Phonetic transcription]] - [[Phonology]] - [[Phoneme]] - [[Phonemics]] - [[Phrase]] - [[Phrase structure rules]] - [[Pidgin]] - [[Place Manner Time]] - [[Place of articulation]] - [[Pleonasm]] - [[Pluperfect]] - [[Polysemy]] - [[Polysynthetic language]] - [[Portmanteau]] - [[Possessive case]] - [[Postalveolar consonant]] - [[Postposition]] - [[Pragmatics]] - [[Prefix (linguistics)|Prefix]] - [[Preposition]] - [[Prepositional phrase]] - [[Prescription and description]] - [[Presupposition]] - [[Preterite]] - [[Profanity]] - [[Prolative case]] - [[Pronoun]] - [[Pronunciation]] - [[Prosody (linguistics)]] - [[Proparoxytone]] - [[Pseudo-acronym]] - [[Pseudo-Anglicism]] - [[Psycholinguistics]] - [[Punctuation]] == Q == Quendecincy - [[Quirky subject]] == R == [[Radical (Chinese character)|Radical]] - [[Regimen]] - [[Retroflex consonant]] - [[Retronym]] - [[Rhotics]] - [[Romanization]] - [[Rounded vowel]] == S == [[SAMPA]] - [[Sapir-Whorf hypothesis]] - [[Schwa]] - [[Second language]] - [[Semantics]] - [[Semantic class]] - [[Semantic feature]] - [[Semantic property]] - [[Semiotics]] - [[Semivowel]] - [[Sentence (linguistics)|Sentence]] - [[Shall]] - [[Sign (linguistics)|Sign]] - [[Sign language]] - [[Sociolinguistics]] - [[Slack voice]] - [[Slang]] - [[Sociolect]] - [[Sound change]] - [[The sound pattern of English]] - [[Subject object verb|SOV]] - [[Speaker recognition]] - [[Specialized lexicography]] - [[Speech communication]] - [[Speech act]] - [[Speech disorder]] - [[Speech processing]] - [[Speech recognition]] - [[Speech synthesis]] - [[Speech therapy]] - [[Spiritus asper]] - [[Split infinitive]] - [[Standard language]] - [[Stop consonant]] - [[Stratificational linguistics]] - [[Structuralism]] - [[Stylistics (linguistics)|Stylistics]] - [[Superlative]] - [[Suppletion]] - [[subject (grammar)|Subject]] - [[Subject verb object|SVO]] - [[Supine]] - [[Syllabary]] - [[Syllable]] - [[Synonym]] - [[Syntactic ambiguity]] - [[Syntactic categories]] - [[Syntax]] - [[Synthetic language]] == T == [[Tagmemics]] - [[Grammatical tense|Tense]] - [[Text types]] - [[Thematic role]] - [[Theoretical linguistics]] - [[Thesaurus]] - [[Thou]] - [[Time Manner Place]] - [[Tonal language]] - [[Tongue-twister]] - [[Transcription (linguistics)|Transcription]] - [[Transformational-generative grammar]] - [[Translation]] - [[Translative case]] - [[Truth condition]] - [[T-V distinction]] - [[Linguistic typology|Typology]] == U == [[Uninflected word]] - [[Universal grammar]] - [[Unsolved problems in linguistics]] - [[Uvular consonant]] == V == [[V2 word order]] - [[Variety (linguistics)|Variety]] - [[Velar consonant]] - [[Verb]] - [[Verb object subject]] - [[Verb phrase]] - [[Verb subject object]] - [[Verbal noun]] - [[Verner's law]] - [[Vocative case]] - [[Vowel]] - [[Vowel harmony]] - [[Vowel stems]] - == W == [[Weak suppletion]] - [[Will (verb)]] - [[Word]] - [[Word sense disambiguation]] - [[Writing]] - [[Writing systems]] - [[Wug test]] == X == [[X-bar theory]] == Y == == Z == [[Zipf's law]] [[Category:Linguistics lists]] [[Category:Lists of terms|Linguistics]] [[Category:Topical indexes|Linguistics topics]] [[bn:ভাষাবিজ্ঞানে আলোচ্য বিষয়গুলোর তালিকা]] [[es:Glosario de términos lingüísticos]] [[fr:Liste des notions utilisées en linguistique]] [[gl:Glosario de termos lingüísticos]] [[sl:Seznam jezikoslovnih vsebin]] [[vi:Thuật ngữ ngôn ngữ học]]