| allolog | One of two or more pronunciations, viewed as alternants, which a word may take. | 1946 | Go To Quotation |
| allomorph | Each of two or more alternative forms of a morpheme. | 1945 | Go To Quotation |
| allophony | Variation in the possible phonetic realizations of a phoneme. | 1945 | Go To Quotation |
| bilingualization | The process of becoming competent in the use of two languages; the action or process of making bilingual or bilingualizing. | 1961 | Go To Quotation |
| bop | = bebop n. Also attrib. | 1948 | Go To Quotation |
| Chichewa | The Bantu language of the Chewa people; (also, esp. in Malawi) the group of… | 1937 | Go To Quotation |
| co-occur | intr. To occur together or simultaneously. | 1957 | Go To Quotation |
| disambiguate | trans. To remove ambiguity from. | 1963 | Go To Quotation |
| endingless | Without ending. | 1946 | Go To Quotation |
| glosseme | Any feature in a language (whether of form, stress, order, or the like) that carries… | 1926 | Go To Quotation |
| idiolect | The linguistic system of one person, differing in some details from that of all other speakers of the same dialect or language. | 1948 | Go To Quotation |
| Jonesian | Used to designate the phonetic system or the system of classifying phonemes adopted… | 1951 | Go To Quotation |
| lexico- | | 1953 | Go To Quotation |
| macrosegment | A continuous unit of speech between two pauses, with a single intonation. | 1947 | Go To Quotation |
| Marshallese | The Micronesian language of the inhabitants of the Marshall Islands. | 1945 | Go To Quotation |
| microsegment | A unit of sound enclosed between two open junctures. | 1947 | Go To Quotation |
| Milyan | The ancient language and script known as Lycian B, variously believed to be a dialect of Lycian or a separate language. | 1948 | Go To Quotation |
| monophonematic | = monophonemic adj. | 1940 | Go To Quotation |
| morph | A discrete phonological unit representing a minimal and indivisible morphological… | 1947 | Go To Quotation |
| morphemics | The study, description, or analysis of morphemes and the morphemic structure of words. | 1947 | Go To Quotation |
| morphonemic | = morphophonemic adj. | 1934 | Go To Quotation |
| morphophone | A phonological unit representing the class of phonemes occurring in dialectally different pronunciations of morphemes. | 1967 | Go To Quotation |
| morphophoneme | In morphophonological representation: a unit of sound from which all variants of a morpheme can be derived or predicted by rule. | 1934 | Go To Quotation |
| morphophonemic | Of or relating to a morphophoneme or morphophonemes; consisting of morphophonemes. | 1934 | Go To Quotation |
| morphophonology | The branch of linguistics that deals with the phonemic constitution and the phonological representation of morphemes. | 1934 | Go To Quotation |
| multidialectalism | Proficiency in speaking or understanding two or more dialects. | 1971 | Go To Quotation |
| nativize | trans. Linguistics. To adapt (a loan word) to the phonetic structure of the native… | 1948 | Go To Quotation |
| non-past | Of, relating to, or designating a tense not expressing a past action or state, esp.… | 1946 | Go To Quotation |
| Olonets | A Finno-Ugric language (one of the principal varieties of Karelian), mainly spoken in… | 1952 | Go To Quotation |
| operationalizing | The action of operationalize v.; the bringing of something into operation. | 1964 | Go To Quotation |
| passivized | That has been converted to the passive voice. | 1975 | Go To Quotation |
| paucal | Designating a number (number n. 16) or inflected form denoting more than two entities… | 1930 | Go To Quotation |
| performativity | The fact or quality of being performative (cf. performative adj.). Also: the fact or quality of performing. | 1970 | Go To Quotation |
| perlative | In certain inflected languages: of or designating a case used to express movement through something. | 1937 | Go To Quotation |
| pharyngealization | Obstruction of the airstream at the pharynx; modification into a pharyngeal sound. | 1948 | Go To Quotation |
| phonaesthemic | Of or relating to phonaesthemes; phonaesthetic. | 1967 | Go To Quotation |
| phonaesthesis | = phonaesthesia n. | 1965 | Go To Quotation |
| phonemicist | A specialist in or student of phonemics. | 1938 | Go To Quotation |
| phonemicization | Classification into phonemes, description in terms of phoneme theory; phonemic transcription or an instance of this. | 1942 | Go To Quotation |
| phonemicize | intr. To employ phonemic analysis. | 1940 | Go To Quotation |
| phonemics | The study of phonemes and phoneme systems; phonemic analysis. Also: the phoneme system of a particular language. | 1934 | Go To Quotation |
| phonemization | = phonemicization n. | 1947 | Go To Quotation |
| phonotactically | In terms of phonotactics; with regard to phonotactic rules or constraints. | 1961 | Go To Quotation |
| polysystemy | = polysystemicity n. Also in extended use. | 1964 | Go To Quotation |
| Pomoan | A family of seven mutually unintelligible North American Indian languages spoken in northern California. | 1963 | Go To Quotation |
| postmodification | The qualification or limitation of the sense of one word or phrase by another being placed after it. | 1960 | Go To Quotation |
| post-nuclear | Phonetics. Situated after a nucleus. Also as n. | 1944 | Go To Quotation |
| pragmalinguistic | Of or relating to pragmalinguistics or the features of language it studies. | 1978 | Go To Quotation |
| prefixoid | A combining form, esp. one with no prior currency as an independent word. | 1963 | Go To Quotation |
| preform | A linguistic form reconstructed from later evidence. Cf. protoform n. | 1932 | Go To Quotation |
| premodification | The modification of a word or phrase by an immediately preceding one; an instance of this. | 1960 | Go To Quotation |
| prenasalization | The occurrence or articulation of a brief nasal sound before a consonant, the combination… | 1929 | Go To Quotation |
| protolinguistics | The branch of linguistics that deals with the development of language… | 1973 | Go To Quotation |
| psychoacoustically | In a psychoacoustic way, by means of psychoacoustics. | 1953 | Go To Quotation |
| reflexivization | The action of making (a verb, noun phrase, etc.) reflexive; the process or fact of being made reflexive. Cf. reflexive adj. 5. | 1963 | Go To Quotation |
| reflexivize | trans. To make (a verb, noun phrase, etc.) reflexive. | 1963 | Go To Quotation |
| replacive | Linguistics. A morph or morpheme that consists of or is realized by the replacement of one form by another. | 1948 | Go To Quotation |
| Russonorsk | = Russenorsk n. | 1956 | Go To Quotation |
| segmentalize | trans. To divide into segments. | 1968 | Go To Quotation |
| segmentative | = segmental adj. 2c (see also quot. 1936). | 1936 | Go To Quotation |
| Sievers | the name of Eduard Sievers (1850 – 1932), German philologist, used attrib. of the… | 1934 | Go To Quotation |
| stylistician | One who studies stylistics. | 1939 | Go To Quotation |
| superscripting | The action of providing with a superscript or superscripts; the creation or use of superscripts, now esp. in electronic text. | 1970 | Go To Quotation |
| tagmemicist | A student or exponent of tagmemics. | 1965 | Go To Quotation |
| tagmemics | With sing. concord. The study and description of language in terms of tagmemes; spec. a… | 1947 | Go To Quotation |
| teleconference | A conference held by people who, though separated physically, are linked… | 1953 | Go To Quotation |
| tensed | Having a grammatical tense or tenses. | 1972 | Go To Quotation |
| topicalize | trans. To make into a grammatical topic. Usu. pass. | 1970 | Go To Quotation |
| Trager–Smith | Used attrib. with reference to the method of linguistic analysis and… | 1955 | Go To Quotation |
| transderivational | Relating to or involving more than one derivation (see derivation n. 6c). | 1977 | Go To Quotation |
| Trubetzkoyan | Of or pertaining to Trubetzkoy or his theory and methodology. | 1940 | Go To Quotation |
| zeroable | Linguistics. That may be omitted from a sentence without loss of meaning. | 1965 | Go To Quotation |
