IconicityIn functional-cognitive linguistics, as well as in semiotics, iconicity is the conceived similarity or analogy between the form of a sign (linguistic or otherwise) and its…View analysis →
Sound changeIn historical linguistics, a sound change is a change in the pronunciation of a language. A sound change can involve the replacement of one speech sound (or, more generally, one…View analysis →
SawndipSawndip (Sawndip: 𭨡𮄫; Zhuang pronunciation: ) are Chinese characters used to write the Zhuang languages in the Chinese provinces of Guangxi and Yunnan. Sawndip is a Zhuang word…View analysis →
Consonant mutationConsonant mutation is change in a consonant in a word according to its morphological or syntactic environment.View analysis →
ClusivityIn linguistics, clusivity is a grammatical distinction between inclusive and exclusive first-person pronouns and verbal morphology, also called inclusive "we" and exclusive "we"…View analysis →
JurenJuren (Chinese: 舉人; lit. 'recommended man') was a rank achieved by people who passed the xiangshi (Chinese: 鄉試) exam in the imperial examination system of imperial China. The…View analysis →
SlangSlang is a vocabulary (words, phrases, and linguistic usage) of an informal register, common in everyday conversation but avoided in formal writing and speech. It also often…View analysis →
Užice SpeechThe Užice speech (Serbo-Croatian: ужички говор / užički govor), also known as the Zlatibor speech (Serbo-Croatian: златиборски говор / zlatiborski govor), is a Neo-Shtokavian…View analysis →
SlacktivismSlacktivism (a blend of slacker and activism) is the practice of supporting a political or social cause by means such as social media or online petitions, characterized as…View analysis →
Dardic languagesThe Dardic languages (also Dardu or Pisaca), also known as Hindu-Kush Indo-Aryan languages, is an areal group of several northwestern Indo-Aryan languages spoken in northern…View analysis →
Alternative newspaperAn alternative newspaper is a type of newspaper that eschews comprehensive coverage of general news in favor of stylized reporting, opinionated reviews and columns, and…View analysis →
GejangGejang (Korean: 게장) or gejeot (게젓) is a variety of jeotgal, or salted fermented seafood in Korean cuisine, which is made by marinating fresh raw crabs in either ganjang (soy…View analysis →
PharyngealizationPharyngealization or pharyngealisation is a secondary articulation of consonants or vowels by which the pharynx or epiglottis is constricted during the articulation of the sound.View analysis →
NafsNafs (نَفْس) is an Arabic word occurring in the Quran, literally meaning "self", and has been translated as "psyche", "ego" or "soul". The term is cognate with the Hebrew word…View analysis →
Part-of-speech taggingIn corpus linguistics, part-of-speech tagging (POS tagging, PoS tagging, or POST), also called grammatical tagging, is the process of marking up a word in a text (corpus) as…View analysis →
FeilongFeilong (simplified Chinese: 飞龙; traditional Chinese: 飛龍; pinyin: fēilóng; Wade–Giles: fei lung; lit. 'flying dragon') is a legendary creature that flies among clouds in Chinese…View analysis →
StatewatchStatewatch is a UK-based charity founded in 1991 that produces and promotes critical research, policy analysis and investigative journalism to inform debates, movements and…View analysis →
PhonationThe term phonation has slightly different meanings depending on the subfield of phonetics. Among some phoneticians, phonation or phonating is the process by which the vocal…View analysis →
Béarnese dialectBéarnese (endonym bearnés or biarnés; French: béarnais ⓘ) is the variety of Gascon spoken in Béarn.View analysis →
DeixisIn linguistics, deixis (/ˈdaɪksɪs, ˈdeɪksɪs/) is the use of words or phrases to refer to a particular time (e.g. then), place (e.g. here), or person (e.g. you) relative to the…View analysis →
GutturalGuttural speech sounds are those with a primary place of articulation near the back of the oral cavity, where it is difficult to distinguish a sound's place of articulation and…View analysis →
InterlinguisticsInterlinguistics, also known as cosmoglottics, is the subfield of linguistics that studies planned languages with practical and theoretical perspectives. Formalised by Otto…View analysis →
Reflexive pronounA reflexive pronoun is a pronoun that refers to another noun or pronoun (its antecedent) within the same sentence.[citation needed]View analysis →
KiasuKiasu (simplified Chinese: 惊输; traditional Chinese: 驚輸; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kiaⁿ-su) is a term derived from the Hokkien “kia” meaning afraid and “su” meaning to lose. It is commonly…View analysis →
Performance studiesPerformance studies is an interdisciplinary academic field that teaches the development of performance skills and uses performance as a lens and a tool to study the world. The…View analysis →
Sam LacySamuel Harold Lacy (October 23, 1903 – May 8, 2003) was an African-American and Native American sportswriter, reporter, columnist, editor, and television/radio commentator who…View analysis →
ColexificationIn semantics and lexical typology, colexification is the ability for a language to express different meanings with the same word.View analysis →
IdiomAn idiom is a phrase or expression that largely or exclusively carries a figurative or non-literal meaning, rather than making any literal sense. Categorized as formulaic…View analysis →
InfixAn infix is an affix inserted inside a word stem (an existing word or the core of a family of words). It contrasts with adfix, a rare term for an affix attached to the outside of…View analysis →
NominalizationIn linguistics, nominalization or nominalisation, also known as nouning, is the use of a word that is not a noun (e.g., a verb, an adjective or an adverb) as a noun, or as the…View analysis →
Cultural globalizationCultural globalization is the accelerating transnational circulation of ideas, meanings, values, and cultural practices that reshape collective identities and social relations…View analysis →
Manually coded EnglishManually Coded English (MCE) is an umbrella term referring to a number of invented manual codes intended to visually represent the exact grammar and morphology of spoken English…View analysis →
Bible codeThe Bible code (Hebrew: הצופן התנ״כי, hatzofen hatanachi), also known as the Torah code, is a purported set of encoded words within a Hebrew text of the Torah that, according to…View analysis →
Case roleCase roles, according to the work by Charles J. Fillmore (1967), are the semantic roles of noun phrases (NP) in relation to the syntactic structures that contain these noun…View analysis →
Glasgow dialectThe Glasgow dialect, also called Glaswegian or Glasgow patter, is a dialect or language variety spoken in and around Glasgow, Scotland. It is most common in working class people…View analysis →
Counterfactual conditionalCounterfactual conditionals (also contrafactual/subjunctive/X-marked conditionals) are conditional sentences that describe what would have been true if circumstances had been…View analysis →
