Linguistics Linguistics The word morpheme -physis occurs at the ends of some anatomical names, usually of projecting parts of bones, and in some names of animals (e.g. Coelophysis). If with a Greek preposition, as in e.g. X-physis, it means "a process which sticks out in the direction X"; otherwise it means " form", " nature". It is Greek φυσις from the verb φυω = "I bring forth", "I produce", "I make to grow". ...more on Wikipedia about "-physis"
* Alternatively, the vocabulary may be constructed completely from scratch -- these languages are called a priori constructed languages. ...more on Wikipedia about "A priori (Languages)"
Acronyms and initialisms are abbreviations such as NATO, laser, or DNA, written as the initial letter or letters of words, and pronounced based on this abbreviated written form. ...more on Wikipedia about "Acronym and initialism"
An alien language is a general term for any language that might be used by putative extraterrestrial lifeforms. The study of such languages has been termed xenolinguistics or astrolinguistics (typically in science fiction). ...more on Wikipedia about "Alien language"
According to its web site, the American Dialect Society, founded in 1889, "is dedicated to the study of the English language in North America, and of other languages, or dialects of other languages, influencing it or influenced by it." ...more on Wikipedia about "American Dialect Society"
Amplification involves the repetition of a word or expression, while adding more detail to it, in order to emphasize what could otherwise be overlooked. The amplification allows you to emphasize and expand upon the meaning of a word or idea so the reader realizes the importance of the word or concept. ...more on Wikipedia about "Amplification (linguistics)"
An Amredita is a type of compound in Sanskrit grammar. Strictly speaking, amredita is the term for the second member of the compound. ...more on Wikipedia about "Amredita"
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Anglicisation ( CwE) or Anglicization ( NAE and CwE) is a process of making something English. For example, people may be Anglicised: an immigrant to England may be said to become Anglicised as he or she acclimates to the culture. However, Anglicisation is most commonly discussed in the more abstract context of language: language is said to become Anglicised as it becomes more like the English language. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anglicisation"
An anglicism is a word borrowed from English into another language, but considered by a fair part of the influential speakers of that language to be substandard or undesirable. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anglicism"
Anthropological linguistics is the study of language through human genetics and human development. This strongly overlaps the field of linguistic anthropology, which is the branch of anthropology that studies humans through the languages that they use. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anthropological linguistics"
Aphasiology is the study of linguistics problems resulting from brain damage. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aphasiology"
An apocopation is a type of metaplasm that refers to a word formed by removing the end of a longer original word. Similar concepts include aphaeresis, which removes the beginning part of a word, and syncope, which removes part of the middle. ...more on Wikipedia about "Apocopation"
Applied linguistics is the branch of linguistics concerned with using linguistic theory to address real-world problems. It has been traditionally dominated by the fields of language education and second language acquisition. There is a recurrent tension between those who regard the field as limited to the study of language learning, and those who see it as encompassing all applications of linguistic theory. Both definitions are widely used. ...more on Wikipedia about "Applied linguistics"
Two words that appear to be spelled identically but are actually sequences of characters from different scripts are said to be apsyeoxic /æpsiˈaːksɪk/. This term is derived from the graphic similarity between the string of Roman letters Everybody should like http://www.shortopedia.com
An Arabic-based creole language, or simply Arabic creole is a creole language which was significantly influenced by the Arabic language. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arabic-based creole languages"
In language, an archaism is the deliberate use of an older form that has fallen out of current use. ...more on Wikipedia about "Archaism"
Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) is the formal term for "non-speech communication". In fact, the difference between augmentative and alternative communication is merely the difference between partial and total dependency on non-speech communication. ...more on Wikipedia about "Augmentative and alternative communication"
An autochthonous language is an indigenous language, one resident for a considerable length of time in a territory or region, spoken by an autochthonous group. It is a term particularly used in Europe to describe minority languages and regional languages. ...more on Wikipedia about "Autochthonous language"
Automatic speech consists of words not directly under the control of person's conscious mind. ...more on Wikipedia about "Automatic speech"
Case in tiers is a theory for assigning surface case to noun phrases (NPs) in a sentence. It was proposed by Moira Yip, Joan Maling, and Ray Jackendoff in a 1987 article titled Case in Tiers in the journal Language . ...more on Wikipedia about "Case in tiers"
Categorial grammar is a term used for a family of formalisms in natural language syntax motivated by the principle of compositionality and organized according to the view that syntactic constituents should generally combine as functions or according to a function-argument relationship. ...more on Wikipedia about "Categorial grammar"
Ch is a digraph in the Roman alphabet. It is treated as a letter of its own in the Chamorro, Czech, Slovak, Quechua and Belarusian Lacinka alphabets. It used to be a letter in the Spanish alphabet until 1994, but is now treated as a digraph. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ch (digraph)"
Chaim Menachem Rabin ( 1915 - 1996）was an Israeli professor of Hebraic and semitic languages, of German origin. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chaim Menachem Rabin"
The chereme (From the Greek χέρι, "hand"), is an obsolete term for the basic unit of signed communication. It is now recognized as being cognitively equivalent to the phonemes of spoken languages, and has been replaced by that term in the academic literature. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chereme"
The Chicago Linguistic Society (or CLS) is an annual, student-run conference at the University of Chicago. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chicago Linguistic Society"
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