Linguistics (idea)

Repository of nodes concerning the far-flung reaches of the science of
linguistics. Add on as you create.

Anyone who can categorize these better is welcome to do so. Contact me.

Concepts:

• allophone
• aphasia
• archiphoneme
• aspectual language
• bilabial
• borrowing
• Broca's aphasia
• Burzio's Generalization
• c-command
• CHILDES
• circumfix
• closed-class words
• code-switching
• definite article
• deixis
• dental
• diphthong
• double articulation of language
• endangered language
• Grimm's Law
• Grimm's Law vs. Glottalic Theory
• hedge
• high-amplitude sucking
• hyponymy
• illocutionary force
• inclusive
• Is language innate or learned?
• isolate
• labiodental
• lexical decomposition
• macrofamily
• meronymy
• obviative
• palatalize
• perlocutionary force
• plural
• poverty of the stimulus
• preverbal
• Principle A, Principle B, Principle C
• prosody
• proximate
• retroflex
• Sentence Relatedness
• Specific Language Impairment
  • developmental delay
  • delay or deviance?
  • asynchrony
  • language environment
  • genetic factors
  • nonlinguistic cognition
  • linguistic accounts
  • temporal processing disorder
• speech act theory
• suppletive
• synonymy
• syntactic ergativity
• tone language
• trace
• triphthong
• tu
• universal language
• vowel harmony
• wanna
• zero-form morpheme

Subfields:

• articulatory phonetics
• cognitive linguistics
• computational linguistics
• dialectology
• generative linguistics
• historical linguistics
• linguistic anthropology
• morphology
• philology
• phonology and phonetics
• semantics
• sociolinguistics
• statistical linguistics
• syntax
• typology
• writing systems

Other:

• ë
• abjad
• about beetles, and your inky heart (a prize to anyone who knows why this is here...)
• British English
• cedilla
• Chambers
• chomskybot
• crack whore
• East Timor
• English is a living language
• English is tough stuff
• Eskimos do NOT have 40 words for snow
• ezafe
• fewer
• frequency analysis
• Genie
• grave accent
• hamzatulwasl
• haplology
• How to pronounce an English "R"
• How to say "I can eat glass, it does not hurt me"
• How to say "I love you"
• How to Say "I'm Crazy"
• irony
• its
• Japanese accent
• Ladle Rat Rotten Hut
• Some thoughts about the Language of Thought
• Linguistic Breakthrough
• Linguistics Data Consortium
• Linguistics mumble effect
• Natural Language Processing
• Nippon
• "No" is a complete sentence
• nom de plume
• Oh my God! There's an Axe in my Head!
• Planetary Linguistics
• Pseudoetimology
• reasons that the English language is hard to learn
• rune
• SAMPA
• schwa
• Sorites Paradox
• splitting an infinitive
• surname prefixes
• ta marbuta
• The Eclectic Company
• the letter æ
• Thinking without Language
• wild boy of Aveyron
• Words on the Appeals List for the OED
• Yinka Dene
• zeta