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Term in linguistics
In linguistics, the autonomy of syntax is the assumption that syntax is arbitrary and self-contained with respect to meaning: semantics, pragmatics, discourse
Autonomy_of_syntax
System responsible for combining morphemes into complex structures
In linguistics, syntax (/ˈsɪntæks/ SIN-taks) is the study of how words and morphemes combine to form well-formed larger units such as phrases and sentences
Syntax
Interaction between syntax and semantics
has been aimed at disproving the formalist argument of the autonomy of syntax, by finding instances of semantically determined syntactic structures. Levin
Syntax–semantics_interface
One or more words used to refer to something
Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP), a philosophical dissertation on the syntax and semantics of names Pilcher, Jane (2017). "Names, Bodies and Identities" (PDF)
Name
Study of words and their formation
difference between a morpheme and another; and at a smaller scale than syntax, which investigates how words form phrases and sentences. Morphological
Morphology_(linguistics)
Research tradition in linguistics
of language. Generative linguistics includes work in core areas such as syntax, semantics, phonology, psycholinguistics, and language acquisition, with
Generative_grammar
Theory that language learning is an instinctive mental capacity in infants
deprecated parameter |citeseerx= (help) Chomsky, Noam (1965). Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. MIT Press. Kennison, S. M. (2013). Introduction to language development
Language_acquisition_device
Basic elements of language
without circularity, of other words and their associated conceptual denotations. In the Minimalist school of theoretical syntax, words (also called lexical
Word
Academic discipline studying terms and their general uses
Terminology is a group of specialized words and respective meanings in a particular field, and also the study of such terms and their use; the latter
Terminology
Type of grammar based on constituent entities
Matthews, P. Syntax. 1981. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0521297097. McCawley, J. 1988. The syntactic phenomena of English, Vol
Phrase_structure_grammar
Structural rules of a language
The term may also refer to the study of such rules, a subject that includes phonology, morphology, and syntax, together with phonetics, semantics, and
Grammar
Linguistics term for language forms that change little over time
English, which is one of the more innovative Germanic languages in most respects (vocabulary, inflection, vowel phonology, syntax), is nevertheless conservative
Conservative and innovative language
Conservative_and_innovative_language
Categories in etymology
endonym or autonym is a common, self-chosen, native name of a group of people, an individual person of that group, a geographical place, a language or a dialect;
Endonym_and_exonym
Typographical symbol (*)
are found as irregular forms. In most areas of linguistics, but especially in syntax, an asterisk in front of a word or phrase indicates that the word or
Asterisk
Study of relations between psychology and language
meaning of words and sentences. Where syntax is concerned with the formal structure of sentences, semantics deals with the actual meaning of sentences
Psycholinguistics
Theory of syntax
Government and binding (GB, GBT) is a theory of syntax and a phrase structure grammar in the tradition of transformational grammar developed principally
Government_and_binding_theory
Study of the origin and evolution of words
(/ˌɛtɪˈmɒlədʒi/ ET-ih-MOL-ə-jee) is the study of the origin and evolution of words—including their constituent units of sound and meaning—across time. In the
Etymology
Study of writing style
etc. Efforts to take into account such aspects at the level of both structure and syntax were reported in. In addition, content-specific and idiosyncratic
Stylometry
Conformity of language to a grammar
introduction to syntax. New York: Continuum International Group. p. 119. ISBN 978-0-8264-9703-1. Chomsky, Noam (1965). Aspects of the theory of syntax. Massachusetts:
Grammaticality
Smallest meaningful unit in a language
definition of a morpheme depends heavily on whether syntactic trees have morphemes as leaves or features as leaves. Direct surface-to-syntax mapping in
Morpheme
Human vocal communication using language
appropriate form of those words from the lexicon and morphology, and the organization of those words through the syntax. Then, the phonetic properties of the words
Speech
Words pronounced the same but differing in meaning or spelling
words may be spelled the same, for example rose (flower) and rose (past tense of "rise"), or spelled differently, as in rain, reign, and rein. The term homophone
Homophone
Linguistic theory of semantic description
linguistic theory that reduces lexicons down to a set of semantic primitives. It is based on the conception of Polish professor Andrzej Bogusławski. The theory
Natural_semantic_metalanguage
Distinction in certain fields of language analysis
areas of language analysis, linguistics, and the humanities, in particular stylistics, rhetoric, and semantics. Literal language is the usage of words
Literal and figurative language
Literal_and_figurative_language
Aspect of linguistics and semiotics
order of ideas. In fact, iconicity is now widely acknowledged to be a significant factor at many levels of linguistic structure. Autonomy of syntax Charles
Iconicity
Identifier or designation referring to ethnicity
divided into two categories: exonyms (whose name of the ethnic group has been created by another group of people) and autonyms, or endonyms (whose name is
Ethnonym
Linguistic research program proposed by Noam Chomsky
an independent system (referred to as the autonomy of syntax). By contrast, functionalists believe that syntax is determined largely by the communicative
Minimalist_program
View of linguistics
(2) placing the sentence and syntax mostly in the domain of parole; (3) focus on the social nature of langue instead of the individual's competence/I-language
Structural_linguistics
1943–), morphology and history of linguistics Aoun, Joseph (Lebanon/United States, 1953–), Arabic language, syntax Aquilina, Joseph (Malta, 1911–1997)
List_of_linguists
Individual's unique use of language
Idiolect is an individual's unique use of language, including speech. This unique usage encompasses a person's active vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation
Idiolect
Use of computational tools for the study of linguistics
expected that lexicon, morphology, syntax and semantics can be learned using explicit rules, as well. After the failure of rule-based approaches, David Hays
Computational_linguistics
Geographic range of dialects that vary more strongly at the distant ends
have independent cultural status (autonomy), a process the German linguist Heinz Kloss called ausbau. Speakers of local varieties typically read and
Dialect_continuum
Scientific study of language
the scientific study of language. Specific areas of linguistic description and analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics
Linguistics
Process in which a first language is being acquired
language requires human beings to acquire a range of tools, including phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and an extensive vocabulary. Language
Language_acquisition
Study of how humans produce and perceive sounds
Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that mainly concerns the articulation, sound wave properties, and perception of speech sounds. The field of phonetics is traditionally
Phonetics
Class of modern grammatical theories
of this distinction is that if one acknowledges the initial subject-predicate division in syntax as real, then one is likely to go down the path of phrase
Dependency_grammar
Linguistics theory about syntax
incorporated into both transformational and nontransformational theories of syntax, including government and binding theory (GB), generalized phrase structure
X-bar_theory
Relationships among standard and other languages
functions of language use. The sociolinguist Peter Trudgill has linked Kloss's theoretical framework with Einar Haugen's framework of autonomy and heteronomy
Abstand_and_ausbau_languages
Approach to linguistics
need to express meaning: "The notion of autonomy emerges from an undeniable fact of all languages, 'the curious lack of accord ... between form and function'"
Functional_linguistics
Family of theories within the field of cognitive linguistics
pairing of form and content. The formal aspect of a construction is typically described as a syntactic template, but the form covers more than just syntax, as
Construction_grammar
Study of language-related problems
investigates, and offers solutions to language-related real-life problems. Some of the academic fields related to applied linguistics are education, psychology
Applied_linguistics
Set of names by which an individual is known
prosoponym (from Ancient Greek prósōpon – person, and onoma – name) is the set of names by which an individual person or animal is known. When taken together
Personal_name
Study of graphemes and writing systems
Grapholinguistics is a branch of linguistics that concerns writing systems, their basic components (i.e. graphemes and glyphs) and the rules that define
Grapholinguistics
French linguist (1893–1954)
Chomsky who claims that syntax is an innate psychological phenomenon. In contrast, Tesnière's concept of autonomy of syntax, or antinomy between structural
Lucien_Tesnière
Study of place names
Toponymy, toponymics, or toponomastics is the study of toponyms (names of places, also known as place names and geographical names), including their origins
Toponymy
Art and science of compiling dictionaries
editing of dictionaries. Theoretical lexicography is the scholarly study of semantic, orthographic, syntagmatic, and paradigmatic features of lexemes of the
Lexicography
Employment of present tense when narrating past events
condition of the fire, the shining of the wine in the decanters, the patterns of the glasses and plates, the faint sweet smell of cake, the odour of Miss Murdstone's
Historical_present
Compilation of concepts primarily for the purposes of lexicostatistics
(/ˈswɑːdɛʃ/) is a compilation of tentatively universal concepts for the purposes of lexicostatistics. That is, a Swadesh list is a list of forms and concepts which
Swadesh_list
Set of conventions for written language
An orthography is a set of conventions for writing a language, including norms of spelling, punctuation, word boundaries, capitalization, hyphenation
Orthography
Branch of linguistics which inquires into the nature of language
fields that are generally considered the core of theoretical linguistics are phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. Although phonetics often guides
Theoretical_linguistics
formal syntax, a node is a point in a tree diagram or syntactic tree that can be assigned a syntactic category label. Before the emergence of the X-bar
Node_(linguistics)
In linguistics, troponymy is the presence of a 'manner' relation between two lexemes. The concept was originally proposed by Christiane Fellbaum and George
Troponymy
Branch of applied mathematics
language processing. Logic is used to model syntax, formal semantics, and pragmatics. Modal logic can model syntax that employs different grammatical moods
Mathematical_linguistics
Part of a sentence
special status of the subject is visible insofar as the subject is higher in the tree each time than the object. In theories of syntax that reject the
Subject_(grammar)
Process of words becoming part of a language grammar
Rosenbach & Dieter Stein, eds. Pathways of Change: Grammaticalization in English, 2000. Givon, Talmy. "Historical syntax and synchronic morphology: an archaeologist's
Grammaticalization
Linguistic theory giving noun phrases semantic roles
approach, and in particular the notion of the autonomy of syntax, and his recent Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (1965). The following major thematic relations
Thematic_relation
Study of language in historical sources
importance of synchronic analysis. While the contrast continued with the emergence of structuralism and the emphasis of Noam Chomsky on syntax, research
Philology
Style for gender-neutral written German
(where an underscore takes the place of the asterisk) or using inherently gender neutral terms, such as 'people' instead of 'man' or 'woman'. The gender star
Gender_star
Name for an individual language or family of languages
particularly those that are focused on the study of ethnonyms (names of ethnic groups) and choronyms (names of regions and countries). In that context, the
Glottonym
Prescriptive rules of grammar and usage
Prescription may apply to most aspects of language, including spelling, pronunciation, vocabulary, morphology, syntax, and semantics. Prescription is useful
Linguistic_prescription
consists of the study of language as a semiotic system, which includes the subfields of phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. Each of these subfields
History_of_linguistics
Branch of applied linguistics
Stylistics, a branch of applied linguistics, is the study and interpretation of texts of all types, but particularly literary texts, and spoken language
Stylistics
Turkish nationalist pseudoscientific theory
proposed that all human languages are descendants of one proto-Turkic primal language. The theory's promotion of Turks as a progenitor race led to it finding
Sun_Language_Theory
Words in two languages that sound similar but have very different meanings
betrayals of English vocabulary), published in 1928. As well as producing completely false friends, the use of loanwords often results in the use of a word
False_friend
Canadian-American psycholinguist (born 1954)
as the universality of generative grammar, the autonomy of syntax in language processing, and the fundamental unlearnability of language (e.g., Bates
Steven_Pinker
Framework for the description of the structure of a language
grammars classify words into parts of speech. They describe the patterns for word inflection, and the rules of syntax by which those words are combined
Traditional_grammar
System of linguistic knowledge possessed by native speakers of a language
generative models of syntax explain island effects by positing constraints within the grammar, it has also been argued that some or all of these constraints
Linguistic_competence
a list of second languages most frequently taught in American schools and colleges. They reflect the popularity of these languages in terms of the total
List of most commonly learned second languages in the United States
List_of_most_commonly_learned_second_languages_in_the_United_States
Work of objectively describing language use
language. A description of the syntax of well-formed sentences of that language. A description of lexical derivation. A documentation of the vocabulary, including
Linguistic_description
Practice-oriented linguistic approach
word meaning (lexicology), collocation (phraseology), sentence structure (syntax) and complete discourse (textology). Various techniques used in corpus linguistics
Contrastive_linguistics
Earliest model of generative grammar
of Linguistics. Blackwell. pp. 295–318. doi:10.1002/9780470756409.ch12. ISBN 978-0-631-20497-8. Chomsky, Noam (1965). Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
Transformational_grammar
Branch of linguistics that studies language through examples contained in real texts
parsed using graphs representing up to seven levels of syntax, and every segment tagged with seven fields of information. The Quranic Arabic Corpus is an annotated
Corpus_linguistics
Name for a resident of a particular geographical area
identifies a group of people (inhabitants, residents, natives) in relation to a particular place. Demonyms are usually derived from the name of the place (hamlet
Demonym
Study of how society shapes language and language use
Sociolinguistics is the descriptive and scientific study of how language is shaped by and used differently within any given society. The field largely
Sociolinguistics
Grammatical concept
written English. Essex, England: Pearson Education limited. Carnie, A. 2013. Syntax: A generative introduction, 3rd edition. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. Collins
Object_(grammar)
Study of sound organization in languages
fundamental systems that a language is considered to comprise, like its syntax, its morphology and its lexicon. The word phonology comes from Ancient Greek
Phonology
Measure of how different one language is from another
that are often measured are similarities of syntax and written forms. To overcome the aforementioned problems of the lexicostatistical methods, Donald Ringe
Linguistic_distance
View emphasising importance of language in philosophy
by better understanding our everyday language. The former position is that of ideal language philosophy, one prominent example being logical atomism. The
Linguistic_philosophy
Actual use of language in concrete situations
generative models of syntax explain island effects by positing constraints within the grammar, it has also been argued that some or all of these constraints
Linguistic_performance
Linguistic discipline studying words
Lexicology is the branch of linguistics that concerns the words of a specific language. A word is the smallest meaningful unit of a language that can stand
Lexicology
Structure of a formal language
according to their syntax—a practice known as compositional semantics. In these cases, the first step to describing the meaning of a string is to break
Formal_grammar
Grammatical category
Lødrup, Helge (2014). "Split possession and the syntax of kinship nouns in Norwegian". The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics. 17 (1): 35–57
Inalienable_possession
Subfield of linguistic semantics
language or syntax. This is referred to as syntax-semantics interface. The study of lexical semantics concerns: the classification and decomposition of lexical
Lexical_semantics
Process of learning a second language
in subtle ways. These changes can be with any aspect of language, from pronunciation and syntax to the gestures the learner makes and the language features
Second-language_acquisition
Adjective that is used as a noun
people or the nominalized adjective poor. Transformation of adjective to adjectival noun Syntax tree of determiner phrase with poor as an attributive adjective
Nominalized_adjective
Analysis of social and lingual policy, or historiographical discourse phenomena
linguists ignored such developments in favor of a succession of elaborate theories of sentence-level syntax and semantics. In January 1953, a linguist working
Discourse_analysis
Neologism in linguistics
across different fields of study. It was primarily defined as a term that designates various types of titles, including titles of literary and other artistic
Logonym
Ways that speakers of a language use words
phrase is normally and correctly used" and as the "points of grammar, syntax, style, and the choice of words." In everyday usage, language is used differently
Usage_(language)
Branch of linguistics and semiotics relating context to meaning
communication. Theories of pragmatics are closely linked to theories of semantics, which studies aspects of meaning, and syntax, which examines sentence
Pragmatics
Discipline combining linguistics, psychology and cognitive science
is devoted to word structure, syntax investigates how sentences are constructed and semantics is devoted to the study of linguistic meaning. Cognitive
Cognitive_linguistics
Approach that considers language as a social semiotic system
semiotic system. It was devised by Michael Halliday, who took the notion of system from J. R. Firth, his teacher (Halliday, 1961). Firth proposed that
Systemic functional linguistics
Systemic_functional_linguistics
Intellectual current and methodological approach in the social science
approach, primarily in the social sciences, that interprets elements of human culture by way of their relationship to a broader system. It works to uncover the
Structuralism
Principle in linguistics about meaning
nature of language and meaning; or a methodological principle to guide the development of theories of syntax and semantics. The Principle of Compositionality
Principle_of_compositionality
Suffix used in linguistics
morpheme, that is attached to the end of a root word, thus forming a new compound word that designates a particular class of names. In linguistic terminology
-onym
are unnatural and difficult to learn. DOY derivations are more common in syntax, where one process can often undo another one. Another example for opacity
Phonological_opacity
Study of language change over time
with speech. In the context of historical linguistics, the means of expression change over time. Syntax is the study of the principles and rules for
Historical_linguistics
Practice of modifying words for English
In linguistics, anglicisation or anglicization is the practice of modifying foreign words, names, and phrases to make them easier to spell, pronounce,
Anglicisation_(linguistics)
Proper name of a body of water
onoma, "name") is a type of toponym that designates a proper name of a body of water. Hydronyms include the proper names of rivers and streams, lakes
Hydronym
Process of language acquisition
Children learn syntax through imitation, instruction, and reinforcement. Language development is thought to proceed by ordinary processes of learning in
Language_development
Concept of language having or being influenced by ideology
applications of language ideology. Paul Kroskrity, a linguistic anthropologist, describes language ideology as a "cluster concept, consisting of a number of converging
Language_ideology
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