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• Abessive Case • Ablative Case • Ablaut • Absolute Adjective • Absolute Social Deixis • Absolute Tense • Absolute-Relative Tense • Absolutive Case • Abstract Noun • Accusative Case • Acoustic Phonetics • Acronym • Active language • Active Voice • Actual Implicature • Additive Relation • Addressee Honorific • Adjacency Pair • Adpositional Phrase • Advanced Tongue Root • Adverbial Clause • Agent As A Semantic Role • Agglutinative Language • Alethic Modality • Alienable Noun • Allative Case • Alternative Question • Alternative Relation • Ambiguous Consonant Sequence • Ambiguous Phonetic Transition • Ambiguous Segment • Ambiguous Sequence • Ambiguous Vowel Sequence • Americanist System • Amplification Relation • Analytic Definition • Analytic language • Anaphoric Clitic • Anchored Entity • Animate Class • Anticipatory Illocution • Antipassive Voice • Apocope • Approximant • Arbitrariness • Articulation Process • Ascertainment Relation • Assertive Illocutionary Point • Assumptive Mood • Attraction Schema • Attributable Silence • Attribution Relation • Auditory Evidential • Auslautverhärtung • Authorized Recipient • Authorized Speaker • Autosegmental Phonology • Auxiliary Verb • Background Relation • Balance Schema • Beginning-Postspan Relation • Benefactive Case • Biconditional Relation • Blockage Schema • Blocking Circumstance • Bound Morpheme • Bound Root • Bound Stem • Bounded Deixis • Brand-New Entity • Breathy Vowel • Bystander Honorific • Causal Relation • Causative Case • Causer As A Semantic Role • Center-Periphery Schema • Cessative Aspect • Chain Of Illocutionary Commitments • Circular Definition • Classifier • Clausal Implicature • Clause Chain • Cleft Sentence • Click • Close Future Tense • Closed Class • Coding Time • Collateral Information • Collective Noun • Comitative Case • Commissive Illocutionary Point • Commissive Modality • Commitment BetweenIllocutionary Acts • Common Noun • Complement Clause • Complementary Distribution • Complex Sentence • Compound Discourse • Compound Predicate • Compound Sentence • Compulsion Schema • Conceptual Extendedness • Concession Relation • Concrete Noun • Conditional Relation • Conjunctive Adverb • Conjunctive Illocutionary Act • Conjunctive Verb • Consonant Modification • Container Metaphor • Containment Schema • Context Of An Expression • Continuous Aspect • Contraction Relation • Contrast In Analogous Environments • Contrast In Identical Environments • Contrast Relation • Contrastive Analysis • Conventional Implicature • Conventional Metaphor • Conventional Metonymy • Conversation Analysis • Conversational Implicature • Conversational Maxim • Cooperative Principle • Coordinate Clause • Coordinating Conjunction • Core Argument • Correction Relation • Correlative Conjunction • Count Noun • Counteragent As A Semantic Role • Counterfactual Conditional Relation • Counterforce Schema • Cycle Schema • Dative As A Semantic Role • Dative Case • Declarative Mood • Deductive Mood • Defective Illocutionary Act • Defective Verb • Definite Concessive Relation • Definite Identifiability • Deictic Center • Deictic Expression • Deixis • Delative Case • Deliberative Mood • Demotion • Deontic Modality • Dependent Of A Phrase • Derivational Affix • Description Relation • Descriptive Text • Development Lexical Relation • Diachronical • Dialogue Discourse • Different Subject Marker • Direct Illocution • Direct Object • Direct Speech • Directive Illocutionary Point • Directive Modality • Discontinuous Constituents • Discontinuous Morpheme • Discourse Deixis • Discourse Schema • Dismissive Relation • Dispreferred Second Part • Distributive Aspect • Distributive Numeral • Diversion Schema • Double Stop • Dual Number • Dubitative Mood • Dummy Word • Dvanda compound • Echo Question • Egressive • Ejective • Elaboration Relation • Elative Case • Elementary Illocutionary Act • Elicitation Frame • Elision • Elliptical Construction • Embedded Repair • Empathetic Deixis • Emphasis Marker • Emphatic Additive Relation • Emphatic Alternative Relation • Emphatic Pronoun • Enablement Relation • Enablement Schema • End-Of-Path Schema • Endocentric Compound • Endocentric Construction • Entity Metaphor • Epenthesis • Epistemic Modality • Epistemic Qualification • Equative Case • Equative Clause • Equilibrium Schema • Ergative Case • Essive Case • Evaluation Information • Evaluation Relation • Evidence Relation • Evoked Entity • Exclusive Alternative Relation • Exclusive First Person Deixis • Exemplification Relation • Existential Clause • Existential Marker • Exocentric Construction • Experiencer As A Semantic Role • Experiential Perfect Aspect • Exposed Repair • Expository Discourse • Expository Text • Expressive Illocutionary Point • External Relation • External Relative Clause • Factitive As A Semantic Role • Failure Of Fit • Feminine Gender • Field Distinction • Field Notebook • Figurative Sense • Final Clause • Finite Clause • Finite Verb • First Part • First Person Deixis • Fixed Collocation • Fixed Lexical Collocation • Flouting Implicature • Fluid-S • Force As ASemantic Role • Force Schema • Formal Language • Fortis Consonant • Fossilized Term • Free Morpheme • Free Translation • Free Variation • Fricative • Function Word • Fusional Language • Future Perfect Tense • Future Tense • Future-In-Future Tense • Future-In-Past Tense • Future-Perfect-In-Past Tense • Geminated • Generalized Implicature • Generative Phonology • Generic Term • Generic-SpecificLexical Relation • Genitive Case • Gestural Usage • Given Information • Given VersusNew Information • Glottal Stop • Glottalic • Goal As ASemantic Role • Grammatical Category • Grammatical Gender • Grammatical Relation • Grammatical Tone • Habitual Aspect • Head Of A Phrase • Hedged Performative • Hesitation Pause • Hesternal Past Tense • Hierarchical Lexical Relation • Hodiernal Future Tense • Hodiernal Past Tense • Horizontal Deixis • Hortatory Discourse • Hortatory Text • Human Class • Hypothetical Mood • Identity Of Illocutionary Forces • Idiolect • Illative Case • Illocutionary Act • Illocutionary Conditional • Illocutionary Connective • Illocutionary Consistency • Illocutionary Denegation • Illocutionary ForceIndicating Device • Illocutionary Force • Illocutionary Inconsistency • Illocutionary Point • Illocutionary Verb • Illustrative Sentence • Image Schema • Immediate Constituent • Immediate Imperative Mood • Immediate Past Tense • Imperative Mood • Imperfective Aspect • Impermissible Mixed Metaphors • Impersonal Verb • Implicational Scale • Implosive • Imprecative Mood • Inalienable Noun • Inanimate Class • Inchoative Aspect • Inclusive Alternative Relation • Inclusive FirstPerson Deixis • Indefinite Concessive Relation • Indefinite Pronoun • Indirect Illocution • Indirect Object • Indirect Speech • Individual-GroupLexical Relation • Inessive Case • Inferable Entity • Inferior Status • Infield Distinction • Inflectional Affix • Inflectional Category • Informal Language • Informativeness Principle • Ingressive • Initiative Time Latency • Insertion Sequence • Instrument AsA Semantic Role • Instrumental Case • Intended Perlocutionary Effect • Internal Relation • Internal Relative Clause • Interpretation Relation • Interpropositional Relation • Interrogative Mood • Interrogative Pro-Form • Intimate Social Deixis • Irrealis Modality • Irregular Verb • Isolating Language • Iterative Aspect • Judgment Modality • Jussive Mood • Justification Relation • Kinetic Distinction • Labialization • Language Associate • Lative Case • Lax • Lenis Consonant • Lexical Category • Lexical Database • Lexical Form • Lexical Phonology • Lexical RelationElicitation Frame • Lexical Relation Set • Lexical Relation WithA Scale Structure • Lexical Relation With ASet Of Pairs Structure • Lexical Relation WithA Simple Set Structure • Lexical Relation WithA Tree Structure • Lexical Relation • Lexical Tone • Lexical Unit • Lexical Verb • Liaison • Link Schema • Literal Meaning In ALexical Database • Literal Translation • Locative As A Semantic Role • Locative Case • Logical Relation • Main Clause • Manner As A Semantic Role • Manner Implicature • Manner Of Articulation • Manner Of Discourse • Marking Clause • Masculine Gender • Mass Noun • Matrix Sentence • Meaning AndPragmatic Function • Means-Purpose Relation • Means-Result Relation • Measure As A Semantic Role • Medial Clause • Mediopassive Voice • Metaphorical Entailment • Metrical Phonology • Middle Voice • Minimal Pair • Minor Entry InA Lexical Database • Misplacement Marker • Mixed Metaphors • Mode Of Achievement • Moderate Epistemic Qualification • Mood And Modality • Mood of Articulation • Mora • Morpheme • Morpheme Type • Morphological Process • Morphological Typology • Morphophonemic Rule • Morphosyntactic Operation • Multiplicative Numeral • Actual Presupposition • Addressee • Adjective • Adjunct • Adposition • Adverb (Grammar) • Adverb (Linguistics) • Adverbializer • Affix (Grammar) • Affix (Linguistics) • Affixation • Agreement • Allegory • Allomorph • Allophone • Alveoli • Anaphora • Antanaclasis • Antecedent • Anthimeria • Antipassive voice • Anthology • Antithesis Relation • Antonomasia • Apostrophe • Apposition • Article • Aspect • Audience • Auxesis • Boundedness • Bystander • Case • Cataphora • Causative • Centrifugal • Centripetal • Circumfix • Circumfixation • Classifier • Clause • Clitic (Grammar) • Collocate • Command • Comment • Complement • Complementizer • Complex Illocutionary Act • Compound • Conjunction • Connective • Consonant • Constituent • Construction • Continuant • Continuer • Contoid • Copula • Coreference • Definiteness • Deixis • Demonstrative • Derivation • Derivative • Determiner • Diphthong • Discourse • Distal • Ditransitivity • Elicitation • Elision • Enclitic • Endophora • Equivalent • Etymology • Euphemism • Evidentiality • Exclamation • Exclamative • Exophora • Extendedness • Extraposition • Familiarity • Fit • Focus • Formality • Gap • Genre • Gloss • Glottis • Grounding • Head • Headword • Homograph • Homonym • Homophone • Homophora • Honorific • Host • Hyperbole • Ideophone • Idiom • Immediacy • Implicature • Indefiniteness • Infinitive • Infix • Infixation • Inflection • Intensifier • Interjection • Intonation • Intransitivity • Irony • Labialization • Lapse • Length • Lexeme • Lexicon • Litotes • Major Entry In ALexical Database • Marker • Matrix • Meaning • Meiosis • Metaphor • Metonymy • Modification • Modifier • Morph • Morpheme • Morphology • Morphophonemics • Motivation Relation • Move
• Narrative Discourse • Narrative Text • Nasal • Nasalized Vowel • Natural Class • Negative Conditional Relation • Negative Purpose Relation • Neuter Gender • New Information • New Metaphor • Next Turn Repair Initiator • Nominal Clause • Nominative Case • Nominative/accusative language • Nonconventional Implicature • Nonconversational Implicature • Nondefective Illocutionary Act • Nonfinite Clause • Nonfinite Verb • Nonfuture Tense • Nonpast Tense • Nonrecent Past Tense • Nonremote Past Tense • Nonrestrictive Relative Clause • Nonvisual Evidential • Not-Yet Tense • Noun Adjunct • Noun Class • Noun Phrase • Nuclear Syllable • Object Complement • Obligative Mood • Oblique Object • Obliterative Overlap • Obviative Person Deixis • Oh-Receipt • Ontological Metaphor • Open Class • Open Presupposed Proposition • Opposite Lexical Relation • Optative Mood • Ordinal Numeral • Orientational Metaphor • Other-Initiated Repair • Other-Repair • Out-Of-Field Distinction • Overall Organization • Palatalization • Palate (soft, hard) • Paradigm • Paradigmatic Lexical Relation • Parenthesis Relation • Part-Whole Schema • Participant Role • Particularized Implicature • Partitive Case • Partitive Numeral • Passing Turn • Passive Voice • Past Perfect Tense • Past Tense • Path Schema • Patient As ASemantic Role • Perfect Of Persistent Situation • Perfect Of Recent Past • Perfect Of Result • Perfective Aspect • Performative Verb • Periphrasis • Perlocutionary Act • Perlocutionary Failure • Perlocutionary Verb • Permissible Mixed Metaphors • Permissive Mood • Person Deixis • Personal Pronoun • Pesky Little Particle • Phoneme • Phonetically Similar Segment • Phonological Derivation • Phonological Hierarchy • Phonological Symmetry • Phonological Universal • Phrasal Verb • Place Deixis • Place Of Articulation • Plural Number • Point of Articulation • Polysynthetic Language • Portmanteau Morph • Possessive Noun • Possessive Pronoun • Post-HodiernalFuture Tense • Postpositional Phrase • Potential Implicature • Potential Presupposition • Precategorial Class • Precative Mood • Predicate Adjective • Predicate Noun • Predictable Information • Predictive Future Tense • Preferred Second Part • Prehesternal Past Tense • Prehodiernal Past Tense • Preparatory Condition • Prepositional Phrase • Present Tense • Prespan-End Relation • Presupposition Denial • Presupposition Suspension • Presupposition Trigger • Previousness Relation • Primary Sense • Procedural Discourse • Procedural Text • Productive Affix • Progressive Aspect • Prohibitive Mood • Prolative Case • Promotion • Proper Noun • Proportional Relation • Propositional Act • Propositional Content Condition • Proximal-Distal Dimension • Proximate Person Deixis • Pseudo-Cleft Sentence • Quality Implicature • Quantity Implicature • Quotative Evidential • Range AsA Semantic Role • Range Of Reference • Rank Lexical Relation • Ratified Participant • Realis Modality • Reason-Result Relation • Receiving Time • Recent Past Tense • Reciprocal Pronoun • Reference Clause • Reference Grammar • Referent Honorific • Referential Realm • Reflexive Pronoun • Reflexive Verb • Rejection Finalizer • Relational Proposition • Relational Social Deixis • Relative Adverb • Relative Clause • Relative Future Tense • Relative Nonfuture Tense • Relative Nonpast Tense • Relative Past Tense • Relative Present Tense • Relative Pronoun • Relative Tense • Relevance Implicature • Remote Future Tense • Remote Past Tense • Repartee Discourse • Restatement Relation • Restraint Removal Schema • Restrictive Relative Clause • Retroflex • Reverential Form • Rhetorical Question • Rhotacized Vowel • Salient Information • Same Subject Marker • Satellite-framed Language • Scalar Implicature • Scalar PropertyLexical Relation • Scale Schema • Second Part • Second Person Deixis • Secondary Articulation • Secondary Sense • Self-Initiated Repair • Semantic Component • Semantic Role • Sense Group • Sense Type • Sensory Evidential • Sentence Adverb • Sentence Elicitation Frame • Separable Affix • Sequential Relation • Serial Verb Construction • Setting Information • Similar Pair • Similarity Relation • Simple Sentence • Simultaneous Relation • Sincerity Condition • Singular Number • Situational Elicitation Frame • Situationally Evoked Entity • Social Deixis • Solutionhood Relation • Sonority Scale • Source As AParticipant Role • Source As ASemantic Role • Source Domain • Specialized Figurative Text • Specification Relation • Speculative Mood • Speech Act • Split Ergativity • split-S • Standard Implicature • State Of The Glottis • Stative Verb • Stem Modification • Still Tense • Stop • Strength OfIllocutionary Point • Strength OfSincerity Conditions • Strong Epistemic Qualification • Structural Metaphor • Subentry In ALexical Database • Subject Complement • Subjunctive Mood • Subordinate Clause • Subordinating Conjunction • Substance Metaphor • Success Of Fit • Summary Relation • Summons-Answer Sequence • Superessive Case • Superior Status • Supplemental InformationIn A Definition • Suppletion • Switch Reference • Switching Pause • Syllabic Consonant • Symbolic Usage • Synchronical • Syncope • Synonym Lexical Relation • Syntactic Category • Syntactic Function • Syntagmatic Lexical Relation • Synthetic Language • Tag Question • Tag Statement • Target Domain • Temporal Relation • Tense • Test Term • Text Genre • Textually Evoked Entity • Thesaurus Category • Third Person Deixis • Third Turn Repair • Time As ASemantic Role • Time Deixis • Token-Reflexive Deixis • Topic fronting • Transitive Verb • Translational Equivalence • Translative Case • Trial Number • Turn Location • Twin-Pan Balance Schema • Ultimate Constituent • Umlaut • Unaccusative Verb • Unbound Root • Unbound Stem • Unbounded Deixis • Unergative Verb • Unproductive Affix • Unratified Participant • Unused Entity • Usage Type • Utterance Act • Verb Phrase • Verbal Adjective • Verbal Noun • Verbal Particle • Vertical Deixis • Verticality Schema • Visual Evidential • Vocative Case • Voiceless Vowel • Volitive Modality • Vowel Harmony • Vowel Modification • Weak Epistemic Qualification • Whole Presupposed Proposition • Whole-Part Lexical Relation • Writing And Style Manuals • Yes-No Question • Sentential Complementation • Nasalization • Necessity • Negation • Newsmark • Nominal • Nominalization • Nonextendedness • Nonspecificity • Notional • Noun • Number • Numeral • Object • Offprint • Onomatopoeia • Onset • Overlap • Oxymoron • Parable • Paradigm • Paradox • Paralipsis • Parataxis • Paronomasia • Participle • Particle • Path • Perfect • Performative • Personification • Phone • Phoneme • Phonetics • Phonology • Phrase • Pitch • Polarity • Politeness • Position • Possibility • Post-Sequence • Postposition • Pragmatics • Preannouncement • Prearrangement • Preclosing • Predicate • Predicator • Preface • Prefix • Prefixation • Preinvitation • Prenasalization • Preposition • Prerequest • Presequence • Presupposition • Preterit • Pro-Adjective • Pro-Adverb • Pro-Form • Pro-Verb • Proclitic • Pronominal • Pronoun • Proposition • Prospective • Prototype • Proximal • Pun • Quantifier • Question • Rank • Reduplication • Reference • Referent • Reformulation • Relativizer • Relator • Repair • Result • Rime • Root • Segment • Self-Repair • Semantics • Sense • Sentence • Sequence • Silence • Simile • Simulfix • Singulative • Solidarity • Speaker • Specificity • Statement • Status • Stem • Stop • Stress • Subject • Substantive • Subtraction • Suffix • Suffixation • Suppletion • Suprafix • Suprasegmental • Syllabification • Syllable • Syllepsis • Synecdoche • Target • Tense • Text • Theme • Tone • Topic • Transcription • Transitivity • Transverse • Trope • Try-Marker • Turn • Universal • Upgrade • Utterance • Valency • Verb (Linguistics) • Vocoid • Voice • Vowel • Wh-Question • Word • Zero • Zero Affix • Zero Anaphora • Zero Morph
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