Basic Concepts
What basic concepts / terms do I have to know to talk about linguistics?
- Morphology
- morpheme, inflection, paradigm, declension, derivation, compound
- Phonology
- phoneme, allophone, segment, mora, syllable, foot, stress, tone
- Grammar
- tense, aspect, mood and modality, grammatical number, grammatical gender, case
- Syntax
- phrase, clause, grammatical function, grammatical voice
- Lexicology
- word, lexeme, lemma, lexicon, vocabulary, terminology
- Semantics
- meaning, sense, entailment, truth condition, compositionality
- Pragmatics
- presupposition, implicature, deixis
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