Glossary of Linguistic Terms
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Reference sources
Crystal, David. 1985.A dictionary of linguistics and phonetics. 2nd edition. New York: Basil Blackwell.
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122 terms
Absolutive Case
Adjunct
Alethic Modality
Allative Case
Allomorph
Antecedent
Apposition
Auxiliary Verb
Bound Morpheme
Breathy Vowel
Cataphora
Causative
Command
Commissive Illocutionary Point
Complement
Complement Clause
Complementizer
Connective
Constituent
Conversational Implicature
Conversational Maxim
Cooperative Principle
Count Noun
Counterfactual Conditional Relation
Declarative Illocutionary Point
Deontic Modality
Derivation
Derivational Affix
Direct Object
Direct Speech
Directive Illocutionary Point
Discourse
Ditransitivity
Dummy Word
Elative Case
Elliptical Construction
Endocentric Construction
Endophora
Epistemic Modality
Essive Case
Exclamation
Existential Clause
Exocentric Construction
Expressive Illocutionary Point
Formal Language
Fossilized Term
Generic Term
Given Information
Given Versus New Information
Grammatical Category
Grammatical Gender
Head
Honorific
Idiom
Illative Case
Immediate Constituent
Imperfective Aspect
Inanimate Class
Indirect Object
Indirect Speech
Inessive Case
Inflection
Informal Language
Intransitivity
Iterative Aspect
Lexical Verb
Locative Case
Mass Noun
Modification
Modifier
Mood And Modality
Morph
Morpheme
Nominal Clause
Object
Object Complement
Obviative Person Deixis
Optative Mood
Parataxis
Participant Role
Particle
Passive Voice
Perfective Aspect
Performative
Performative Verb
Perlocutionary Act
Phonetics
Phrasal Verb
Portmanteau Morph
Possibility
Pragmatics
Predicate
Predicator
Pro-Form
Proposition
Question
Reciprocal Pronoun
Reference
Referent
Restrictive Relative Clause
Root
Semantics
Simple Sentence
Speech Act
Statement
Stem
Subject
Subject Complement
Subordinating Conjunction
Substantive
Syntactic Function
Tag Question
Tag Statement
Theme
Transitive Verb
Transitivity
Ultimate Constituent
Utterance
Verbal Adjective
Voice
Zero Anaphora
Zero Morph