In linguistics, declension is the inflection of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and articles to indicate number ( at least singular and plural ), case ( nominative or subjective, genitive or possessive, etc.

In linguistics, a count noun ( also countable noun ) is a common noun that can be modified by a numeral and that occurs in both singular and plural form, as well as co-occurring with quantificational determiners like every, each, several, etc.

In linguistics, a corpus ( plural corpora ) or text corpus is a large and structured set of texts ( nowadays usually electronically stored and processed ).

The question of whether or not these alternative plural forms can be considered incorrect or not touches on the on-going prescriptivism vs descriptivism debate in linguistics and language education.

In linguistics, a broken plural ( or internal plural ) is an irregular plural form of a noun or adjective found in the Semitic languages and other Afroasiatic languages such as Berber.

They are named for their resemblance to grammatical copulas in linguistics.

But it is worth pondering that very little has been published on any phase of field techniques in linguistics.

The joint investigations of linguistics and psychiatry have established, in point of fact, that no matter what the subject of conversation is or what words are involved, it is impossible for people to talk at all without telling over and over again what sort of people they are and how they relate to the rest of the world.

In the United States, anthropology is traditionally divided into five sub-fields, each with additional branches: biological or physical anthropology, social anthropology or cultural anthropology, archaeology and anthropological linguistics.

In linguistics, an allomorph is a variant form of a morpheme.

In linguistics, ablative case ( abbreviated ) is a cases ( noun inflections ) in various languages whose common characteristic is that inter alia they mark motion away from something, though the details in each language may differ.

Abstraction is frequently applied in linguistics so as to allow phenomena of language to be analyzed at the desired level of detail.

When murmur is included under the term aspiration, as is common in Indo-Aryan linguistics, " voiceless aspiration " is called just that to avoid ambiguity.

This debate is analogous to that surrounding the Sapir – Whorf hypothesis in linguistics and cognitive science, which postulates that a particular spoken language's nature influences the habitual thought of its speakers.

Computational linguistics is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical or rule-based modeling of natural language from a computational perspective.

Computational linguistics as a field predates artificial intelligence, a field under which it is often grouped.

Nowadays research within the scope of computational linguistics is done at computational linguistics departments, computational linguistics laboratories, computer science departments, and linguistics departments .< ref >

Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary field with contributors from various fields, including psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy of mind, computer science, anthropology, sociology, and biology.

The study of language processing in cognitive science is closely tied to the field of linguistics.

In linguistics, a collective noun is the name of a number ( or collection ) of people or things taken together and spoken of as one whole.

In linguistics, the comparative method is a technique for studying the development of languages by performing a feature-by-feature comparison of two or more languages with common descent from a shared ancestor, as opposed to the method of internal reconstruction, which analyzes the internal development of a single language over time.

In linguistics, creaky voice ( sometimes called laryngealisation, pulse phonation, vocal fry, or glottal fry ), is a special kind of phonation in which the arytenoid cartilages in the larynx are drawn together ; as a result, the vocal folds are compressed rather tightly, becoming relatively slack and compact.

Westermann is seen as one of the founders of modern African linguistics.

* Compound ( linguistics ), a word that consists of more than one radical element

Within lexical semantics, especially as applied to computers, modeling word meaning is easier when a given word is understood in terms of related words ; semantic networks are therefore important in computational linguistics.

* Head ( linguistics ), the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member

In linguistics, logic, philosophy, and other fields, an intension is any property or quality connoted by a word, phrase, or another symbol.

The Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure, who defined the modern discipline of linguistics, first explicitly formulated the distinction, using the French word langage for language as a concept, and langue as a specific instance of a language system, and parôle for the concrete usage of speech in a particular language.

A lexeme () is an abstract unit of morphological analysis in linguistics, that roughly corresponds to a set of forms taken by a single word.

* Morphology ( linguistics ), the study of the structure and content of word forms

In historical onomasiology or, more generally, in historical linguistics, metaphor is defined as semantic change based on similarity, i. e. a similarity in form or function between the original concept named by a word and the target concept named by this word.

In this way, morphology is the branch of linguistics that studies patterns of word formation within and across languages, and attempts to formulate rules that model the knowledge of the speakers of those languages.

In linguistics, a numeral is a word class ( part of speech ) of number words, specifically of counting words such as English ' two ', ' eleven ', and ' seventy-seven '.

It is based on a corpus linguistics analysis of Oxford's 200 million word database of contemporary American English.

** In linguistics, the phonological word

In linguistics and grammar, a pronoun is a word or form that substitutes for a noun or noun phrase.

Within linguistics, the word " parameter " is almost exclusively used to denote a binary switch in a Universal Grammar within a Principles and Parameters framework.

* Root ( linguistics ), also called a " radical ", the form of a word after any prefixes and suffixes are removed

* Ferdinand de Saussure ( 1857 – 1913 ), the " father " of modern linguistics, proposed a dualistic notion of signs, relating the signifier as the form of the word or phrase uttered, to the signified as the mental concept.

Typography is modulated by orthography and linguistics, word structures, word frequencies, morphology, phonetic constructs and linguistic syntax.

In linguistics, a noun is a member of a large, open lexical category whose members can occur as the main word in the subject of a clause, the object of a verb, or the object of a preposition.

Shortly thereafter, Boston publisher Houghton-Mifflin approached Kucera to supply a million word, three-line citation base for its new American Heritage Dictionary, the first dictionary to be compiled using corpus linguistics.

* In linguistics, a syntax unit, either a word, phrase or clause, that modifies a noun

The word " number " is also used in linguistics to describe the distinction between certain grammatical aspects that indicate the number of times an event occurs, such as the semelfactive aspect, the iterative aspect, etc.