Glossary of Linguistic Terms

  1. Parable
  2. Paradigm
  3. Paradigmatic Lexical Relation
  4. Paradox
  5. Paralipsis
  6. Parataxis
  7. Parenthesis Relation
  8. Paronomasia
  9. Part-Whole Schema
  10. Participant Role
  11. Participle
  12. Particle
  13. Particularized Implicature
  14. Partitive Case
  15. Partitive Numeral
  16. Passing Turn
  17. Passive Voice
  18. Past Perfect Tense
  19. Past Tense
  20. Path
  21. Path Schema
  22. Patient As A Semantic Role
  23. Perfect
  24. Perfect Of Persistent Situation
  25. Perfect Of Recent Past
  26. Perfect Of Result
  27. Perfective Aspect
  28. Performative
  29. Performative Verb
  30. Perlocutionary Act
  31. Perlocutionary Failure
  32. Perlocutionary Verb
  33. Permissible Mixed Metaphors
  34. Permissive Mood
  35. Person Deixis
  36. Personal Pronoun
  37. Personification
  38. Pesky Little Particle
  39. Phone
  40. Phoneme
  41. Phonetically Similar Segment
  42. Phonetics
  43. Phonological Derivation
  44. Phonological Hierarchy
  45. Phonological Symmetry
  46. Phonological Universal
  47. Phonology
  48. Phrasal Verb
  49. Phrase
  50. Pitch
  51. Place Deixis
  52. Place Of Articulation
  53. Plural Number
  54. Polarity
  55. Politeness
  56. Polysynthetic Language
  57. Portmanteau Morph
  58. Position
  59. Possessive Noun
  60. Possessive Pronoun
  61. Possibility
  62. Post-Hodiernal Future Tense
  63. Post-Sequence
  64. Postposition
  65. Postpositional Phrase
  66. Potential Implicature
  67. Potential Presupposition
  68. Pragmatics
  69. Preannouncement
  70. Prearrangement
  71. Precategorial Class
  72. Precative Mood
  73. Preclosing
  74. Predicate
  75. Predicate Adjective
  76. Predicate Noun
  77. Predicator
  78. Predictable Information
  79. Predictive Future Tense
  80. Preface
  81. Preferred Second Part
  82. Prefix
  83. Prefixation
  84. Prehesternal Past Tense
  85. Prehodiernal Past Tense
  86. Preinvitation
  87. Prenasalization
  88. Preparatory Condition
  89. Preposition
  90. Prepositional Phrase
  91. Prerequest
  92. Present Tense
  93. Presequence
  94. Prespan-End Relation
  95. Presupposition
  96. Presupposition Denial
  97. Presupposition Suspension
  98. Presupposition Trigger
  99. Preterit
  100. Previousness Relation
  101. Primary Sense
  102. Pro-Adjective
  103. Pro-Adverb
  104. Pro-Form
  105. Pro-Verb
  106. Procedural Discourse
  107. Procedural Text
  108. Proclitic
  109. Productive Affix
  110. Progressive Aspect
  111. Prohibitive Mood
  112. Prolative Case
  113. Pronominal
  114. Pronoun
  115. Proper Noun
  116. Proportional Relation
  117. Proposition
  118. Propositional Act
  119. Propositional Content Condition
  120. Prospective
  121. Prototype
  122. Proximal
  123. Proximal-Distal Dimension
  124. Proximate Person Deixis
  125. Pseudo-Cleft Sentence
  126. Pun