All linguistics synonyms

noun linguistics

• alphabet — An alphabet is a set of letters usually presented in a fixed order which is used for writing the words of a particular language or group of languages.
• syntax — Linguistics. the study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language. the study of the patterns of formation of sentences and phrases from words. the rules or patterns so studied: English syntax. a presentation of these: a syntax of English. an instance of these: the syntax of a sentence.
• stratification — the act or an instance of stratifying.
• structure — mode of building, construction, or organization; arrangement of parts, elements, or constituents: a pyramidal structure.
• principles — an accepted or professed rule of action or conduct: a person of good moral principles.
• accidence — inflectional morphology; the part of grammar concerned with changes in the form of words by internal modification or by affixation, for the expression of tense, person, case, number, etc
• morphology — the branch of biology dealing with the form and structure of organisms.
• tagmemics — a school of linguistics deriving from American structuralism based on the work of Kenneth Lee Pike and using the tagmeme as the basic unit of grammatical analysis.
• dialectology — the study of dialects and dialectal variations
• etymology — The study of the origin of words and the way in which their meanings have changed throughout history.
• phonology — the study of the distribution and patterning of speech sounds in a language and of the tacit rules governing pronunciation.
• semantics — Linguistics. the study of meaning. the study of linguistic development by classifying and examining changes in meaning and form.
• grammar — the study of the way the sentences of a language are constructed; morphology and syntax.
• elements — Plural form of element.
• fundaments — Plural form of fundament.