Index of linguistics articles

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Linguistics

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General linguistics

* Diachronic
* Lexicography
* Morphology
* Phonology
* Pragmatics
* Semantics
* Syntax
* Syntax–semantics interface
* Typology

Applied linguistics

* Acquisition
* Anthropological
* Applied
* Mathematical
* Computational
* Conversation analysis
* Corpus linguistics
* Discourse analysis
* Determinism
* Distance
* Documentation
* Ethnography of communication
* Ethnomethodology
* Forensic
* History of linguistics
* Interlinguistics
* Neurolinguistics
* Philology
* Philosophy of language
* Phonetics
* Psycholinguistics
* Sociolinguistics
* Text
* Translating and interpreting
* Writing systems

Theoretical frameworks

* Formalist
* Constituency
* Dependency
* Distributionalism
* Generative
* Glossematics
* Functional
* Cognitive
* Construction grammar
* Functional discourse grammar
* Grammaticalization
* Interactional linguistics
* Prague circle
* Systemic functional
* Usage-based
* Structuralism

Topics

* Autonomy of syntax
* Compositionality
* Conservative and innovative language
* Descriptivism
* Etymology
* Iconicity
* Internet linguistics
* LGBTQ linguistics
* Origin of language
* Orismology
* Orthography
* Philosophy of linguistics
* Prescriptivism
* Second-language acquisition
* Theory of language
* Terminology

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Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Someone who engages in this study is called a linguist. See also the Outline of linguistics, the List of phonetics topics, the List of linguists, and the List of cognitive science topics. Articles related to linguistics include:

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* A
* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
* S
* T
* U
* V
* W
* X
* Y
* Z

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Abbreviation \- Abessive case \- Ablaut \- Absolutive case \- Abugida \- Accusative case \- Acute accent \- Accent (phonetics) \- Accent (sociolinguistics) \- 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 \- Animacy \- Anthropological linguistics \- Alveolar consonant \- Antonym \- Aorist \- Applied linguistics \- Approximant \- Areal feature \- Article \- Articulatory gestures \- Articulatory phonetics \- Aspect \- Asterisk \- Attrition \- Attraction \- Augment (Bantu languages) \- Augment (Indo-European) \- Auxiliary verb

## B

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Back-formation \- Backronym \- Bilabial consonant \- Breathy voice \- Breve

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Calque \- Capitalization \- Capitonym \- Cardinal vowel \- Case \- Case in tiers \- Cedilla \- Chiasmus \- Circumfix \- Circumflex \- Clefting \- Click consonant \- Closed-class word \- Cognate \- Cognitive science \- Coherence \- Colloquialism \- Comitative case \- Comparative \- Comparative linguistics \- Comparative method \- Compound noun and adjective \- Compound verb \- Computer-assisted language learning \- Computational linguistics \- Conjugation \- Conjunct \- Conjunction \- Consonant \- Constructed language \- Context \- Contrastive analysis \- Contrastive linguistics \- Conversation analysis \- Copula \- Corpus linguistics \- Cranberry morpheme \- Creaky voice \- Creole language \- Cryptanalysis \- Cuneiform

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Dangling modifier \- Dative case \- Decipherment \- Declension \- Defective verb \- Descriptive linguistics \- Dental consonant \- Derivation \- Determiner \- Diacritic \- Diaeresis \- Dialect \- Dictionary \- Diphthong \- Diplomatics \- Discourse \- Disjunct \- Dislocation \- Double acute accent \- Dual grammatical number

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Eggcorn \- Ecolinguistics \- Elative case \- Endangered language \- English pronunciation \- Entailment \- Ergative case \- Error \- Essive case \- Ethnologue \- Etymology \- Etymologist \- Eurolinguistics \- Evolution of languages \- Evolutionary linguistics \- Example-based machine translation \- Exegesis \- Expletive \- Expletive attributive

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False cognate \- False friend \- Figleaf\- Formal language \- Fricative consonant \- Function word \- Fusional language \- Future perfect \- Future tense

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Gender \- General semantics \- Genitive case \- Germanic umlaut \- Gerund \- Glottal consonant \- Glottal stop \- Glottochronology \- Government \- Grammar \- Grammatical gender \- Grammatical mood \- Grammatical number \- Grammatical voice \- Grave accent \- Great consonant shift \- Great Vowel Shift \- Grimm's law \- Guttural consonant

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Hacek \- Heaps' law \- Hermeneutics \- Hiatus (linguistics) \- High rising terminal \- Historical-comparative linguistics \- Historical linguistics \- History of linguistics \- Homonym \- Hypernym \- Hyponym

## I

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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 \- Interactional linguistics \- International Phonetic Alphabet \- IPA chart for English \- Irregular verb

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## L

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Labiodental consonant \- Langue and parole \- Language \- Language acquisition \- Language attrition \- Language education \- Language families and languages \- Language game \- The Language Instinct \- Language isolate \- Laryngeal theory \- Lateral consonant \- Lemma \- Lexeme \- Lexical semantics \- Lexicography \- Lexicology \- Lexicon \- Linguist \- Linguistic anthropology \- Linguistic ecology \- Linguistic layers \- Linguistic relativity \- Linguistics \- Linguistics basic topics \- Liquid consonant \- List of linguists \- Loanword \- Locative case

## M

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Machine translation \- macron \- Manner of articulation \- Mass noun \- Mathematical linguistics \- Meaning \- Meronymy \- Metathesis \- Minimal pair \- Mispronunciation \- Modality \- Mood \- Mora \- Morpheme \- Morphology \- Mutual intelligibility

## N

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Nasal consonant \- Nasal stop \- Natural language \- Natural language processing \- Natural language understanding \- Negative raising \- Neologism \- Neurolinguistics \- Nomenclature \- Nominative case \- Noun \- Noun phrase \- Null morpheme

## O

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Onomasiology \- Onomatopoeia \- Open class word \- Optimality theory \- Origin of language \- Orthography \- Object–subject–verb \- Object–verb–subject \- Oxytone

## P

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Palatal consonant \- Paradigm \- Paroxytone \- Part of speech \- Participle \- Particle \- Partitive case \- Past tense \- Perfect (grammar) \- Persuasion \- Pharyngeal consonant \- Philology \- Philosophy of language \- Phonation \- Phone \- Phonetics \- Phonetic complement \- Phonetic transcription \- Phonology \- Phoneme \- Phonemics \- Phrase \- Phrase structure rules \- Pidgin \- Place of articulation \- Pleonasm \- Pluperfect \- Polysemy \- Polysynthetic language \- Portmanteau \- Possessive case \- Postalveolar consonant \- Postposition \- Pragmatics \- Prefix \- Preposition \- Prepositional phrase \- Prescription and description \- Present tense \- Presupposition \- Preterite \- Principles of interpretation \- Profanity \- Prolative case \- Pronoun \- Pronunciation \- Prosody (linguistics) \- Proparoxytone \- Pseudo-acronym \- Pseudo-Anglicism \- Psycholinguistics \- Punctuation

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Quirky subject

## R

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Radical \- Retroflex consonant \- Retronym \- Rhetoric \- Rhotics \- Romanization \- Rounded vowel

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SAMPA \- Schwa \- Second language \- Semantics \- Semantic class \- Semantic feature \- Semantic property \- Semiotics \- Semivowel \- Sentence \- Sentence function \- Shall \- Sign \- Sign language \- Sociolinguistics \- Sociolect \- Sociophonetics \- Slack voice \- Slang \- Sound change \- Sound pattern of English \- SOV \- Speaker recognition \- Specialised 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 \- String grammar \- Structuralism \- Stylistics \- Subcategorization \- Superlative \- Suppletion \- Subject \- SVO \- Supine \- Syllabary \- Syllable \- Synonym \- Syntactic ambiguity \- Syntactic categories \- Syntax \- Synthetic language

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Tagmemics \- Telicity \- Tense \- Tense–aspect–mood \- Terminology \- Text linguistics \- Text types \- Thematic role \- Theoretical linguistics \- Thesaurus \- Thou \- Time–manner–place \- Tonal language \- Tone (linguistics) \- Tongue-twister \- Transcription \- Transformational-generative grammar \- Translation \- Translative case \- Truth condition \- T–V distinction \- Typology

## U

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Uninflected word \- Universal grammar \- Uvular consonant

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V2 word order \- Variety \- Velar consonant \- Verb \- Verb–object–subject \- Verb phrase \- Verb–subject–object \- Verbal noun \- Verner's law \- Vocative case \- Vowel \- Vowel harmony \- Vowel stems \-

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Weak suppletion \- Will (verb) \- Word \- Word-sense disambiguation \- Writing \- Writing systems \- Wug test

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X-bar theory

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Zipf's law

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