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Must-know words for polyglots.
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Polyglots are really passionate about language learning and linguistics, therefore it's important for them to learn all kinds of terms. On this page, you will find the most important ones.
If you need a full GLOSSARY OF LINGUISTIC TERMS, see SIL and Wiktionary
Branches of Linguistics
- linguistics
- semiotics
Lexicology
- varity
- dialect
- ideolect
- standard language
- lexeme
- clitic
- word
- lemma
- transliteration
- transcription
- idiom
- proverb
Historical Linguistics
Interlinguistics
Sociolinguistics
Phonetics and Phonology
- phone
- place of articulation
- manner of articulation
- occlusive
Typography
Semantics
Morphology
Syntax
- grammar
- parse tree
- constituency-based parse tree
- dependency-based parse tree
- part of speech
- conjunction
- interjection
- contraction
- particle
- classifier
- numeral
- adjective
- attributive adjective
- predicative adjective
- nominalized adjective
- adverb
- determiner
- article
- definite article
- indifinite article
- zero article
- demonstrative determiner
- possessive determiner
- quantifier
- article
- adposition
- preposition
- postposition
- circumposition
- noun
- countable noun
- uncountable noun
- collective noun
- abstract noun
- concrete noun
- common noun
- proper noun
- pronoun
- verb
- phrase
- clause
- argument clause
- adjuctive clause
- predicative clause
- clause dependent clause
- clause independent clause
- sentence
- simple sentence
- compound sentence
- complex sentence
- compound–complex sentence
- declaritive sentence
- interrogative sentence
- exclamatory sentence
- imperative sentence
- instructive sentence
- major sentence
- minor sentence
- copula
- [wikipedia:Predicate_(grammar)]predicate
- [wikipedia:Attributive]attributive
- [wikipedia:Complement_(linguistics)]complement
Typography
- punctuation
- comma
- period
- exclamation mark
- question mark
- colon
- semicolon
- quotation mark
- apostrophe
- hyphen
- dash
- ellipsis
- slash
- brackets
- round brackets
- curly brackets
- square brackets
- angle brackets
- interpunct
- space
- emphasis
- typeface
- character encoding
- grammatical category
- person
- first person
- second person
- third person
- subject
- object
- argument
- adjunct
- complement
- valency
- honorifics
- gender
- masculine
- feminine
- neuter
- animate
- inanimate
- case
- person