Outline of Linguistics - Basic Concepts

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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