Linguisticterminology
Linguistic terminology refers to the specialized vocabulary used by linguists to describe language structure, use, and variation. It encompasses terms from core subfields such as phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, as well as areas like sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, historical linguistics, and computational linguistics. The terms are defined in reference works and glossaries and are used to express precise concepts that ordinary language cannot capture reliably.
Because terminology evolves with theory and technology, definitions can vary across communities and languages. A term
Common examples include phoneme, allophone, morpheme, allomorph, word, phrase, constituent, head, dependency, tense, aspect, mood, sense,
Terminology resources include dictionaries, glossaries, and handbooks produced by linguists and scholarly associations; terms are frequently