In linguistics, blocking is the morphological phenomenon in which a possible form for a word cannot surface because it is "blocked" by another form whose...

or repression Blocking (linguistics), where the existence of a competing form blocks the application of a morphological process Blocking (statistics),...

Anthropological linguistics is the subfield of linguistics and anthropology which deals with the place of language in its wider social and cultural context...

lexicon. Blocking, including homonymy blocking and synonymy blocking, stops some potential words. A homonym of an existing word may be blocked. For example...

known for his work in linguistics, political activism, and social criticism. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major...

Etymology Lemma (morphology) Lexeme Morphological typology Morphology (linguistics) Phono-semantic matching Principal parts Proto-Indo-European root Radical...

Phonology is the branch of linguistics that studies how languages systematically organize their phones or, for sign languages, their constituent parts...

information retrieval, knowledge representation and computational linguistics, a subfield of linguistics. Typically data is collected in text corpora, using either...

[ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In linguistics, lenition is a sound change that alters consonants, making them “weaker”...

Quantitative linguistics (QL) is a sub-discipline of general linguistics and, more specifically, of mathematical linguistics. Quantitative linguistics deals...

In linguistics, binding is the phenomenon in which anaphoric elements such as pronouns are grammatically associated with their antecedents.[citation needed]...

and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In Mexican linguistics, saltillo (Spanish, meaning "little skip") is the word for a glottal...

influence has been mostly limited to computational linguistics, with little impact on general linguistics. The incompatibility with genetics and neuropsychology...

English words with one syllable Minor syllable Mora (linguistics) Phonology Pitch accent Stress (linguistics) Syllabary writing system Syllabic consonant Syllabification...

In linguistics and grammar, affirmation (abbreviated AFF) and negation (NEG) are ways in which grammar encodes positive and negative polarity into verb...

language. The Additions for Africanist linguistics are two lowercase letter with swash tails used in Africanist linguistics. The Additions for Sencoten are 5...

Extraposition Gapping Inversion Logical form (linguistics) Move alpha PRO (linguistics) Raising (linguistics) Scope (formal semantics) Scrambling Shifting...

In linguistics, focus (abbreviated FOC) is a grammatical category that conveys which part of the sentence contributes new, non-derivable, or contrastive...

In linguistics, a calque (/kælk/) or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal word-for-word or root-for-root translation...

an interdisciplinary field, sometimes regarded as a subfield of both linguistics and philosophy of language. It provides accounts of what linguistic expressions...

alphabet in the 20th century. In the first several decades of modern linguistics as a scientific discipline, linguists often characterized writing as...

disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, economics, geography, linguistics, management, communication studies, psychology, culturology and political...

mythology, both in Europe and South Asia. Walt Wolfram, a professor of linguistics at North Carolina State University, notes that he "can't think of any...

In linguistics, wh-movement (also known as wh-fronting, wh-extraction, or wh-raising) is the formation of syntactic dependencies involving interrogative...

that they operate at different levels. A key assumption of historical linguistics is that sound change is regular. The principle was summarized by the...

The Columbia School of Linguistics is a group of linguists with a radically functional and empirical conception of language. According to their school...

In linguistics and stylistics, an irreversible binomial, frozen binomial, binomial freeze, binomial expression, binomial pair, or nonreversible word pair...

radicals blocks: the "Kangxi Radicals" block that includes the 214 standard radicals used in the Kangxi Dictionary; and the "CJK Radicals Supplement" block that...

college basketball as a sophomore, Mutombo once blocked 12 shots in a game. Building on the shot-blocking power of Mutombo and teammate Alonzo Mourning...

(九声六调). However, these are seldom counted as phonemic tones in modern linguistics, which prefer to analyse them as conditioned by the following consonant...