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:
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
Back-formation -Backronym -Bilabial consonant -Breathy voice -Breve
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
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
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
False cognate -False friend -Figleaf-Formal language -Fricative consonant -Function word -Fusional language -Future perfect -Future tense
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
Hacek -Heaps' law -Hermeneutics -Hiatus (linguistics) -High rising terminal -Historical-comparative linguistics -Historical linguistics -History of linguistics -Homonym -Hypernym -Hyponym
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
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
Machine translation -macron -Manner of articulation - Mass noun -Meaning -Meronymy -Metathesis -Minimal pair -Mispronunciation -Modality -Mood -Mora -Morpheme -Morphology -Mutual intelligibility
Nasal consonant -Nasal stop -Natural language -Natural language processing -Natural language understanding -Negative raising -Neologism -Neurolinguistics -Nomenclature -Nominative case -Noun -Noun phrase -Null morpheme
Onomasiology -Onomatopoeia -Open class word -Optimality theory -Origin of language -Orthography -Object–subject–verb -Object–verb–subject -Oxytone
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
Radical -Retroflex consonant -Retronym -Rhetoric - Rhotics -Romanization -Rounded vowel
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
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
Uninflected word -Universal grammar -Uvular consonant
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 -
Weak suppletion -Will (verb) -Word -Word-sense disambiguation -Writing -Writing systems -Wug test