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.

Phonetics ( pronounced, from the, phōnē, ' sound, voice ') is a branch of linguistics that comprises the study of the sounds of human speech, or — in the case of sign languages — the equivalent aspects of sign.

He made numerous contributions to Slavic linguistics, most notably two studies of Russian case and an analysis of the categories of the Russian verb.

In linguistics, abessive ( abbreviated or ), caritive and privative ( abbreviated ) are names for a grammatical case expressing the lack or absence of the marked noun.

In linguistics, the partitive is a word, phrase, or case that divides something into parts.

Raynouard is sometimes called the founder of Romance linguistics, although his work was marked by a fundamental misconception: he believed that the Romance languages had derived from a common post-Latin language, which he called le roman, and not directly from Latin, as is in fact the case.

* Oblique case, in linguistics

The case was covered in a chapter of Creating Language Crimes ( ISBN 978-0195181661 ) by Roger W. Shuy, a linguistics professor who was a witness in the case.

In linguistics, inclusio is syntax for the relationship between a noun in genitive case and head noun of the phrase.

This is also the case for quite a few other axiomatic theories in mathematics, philosophy, linguistics, etc.

Even more than is the case with folk etymology, for metanalysis to have any interest for linguistics some overt change has to take place.

Geographical linguistics, Saussure explains, deals primarily with the study of linguistic diversity across lands, of which there are two kinds: diversity of relationship, which applies to languages assumed to be related ; and absolute diversity, in which case there exists no demonstrable relationship between compared languages.

Founding member of the band Robert Leonard is a professor of linguistics at Hofstra University, and had an appearance as a qualified expert in linguistics for the murder case of Charlene Hummert in the episode " A Tight Leash " of the TV medical detectives series Forensic Files in 2004.

Traditionally, the primary divisions in language arts are literature and language, where language in this case refers to both linguistics, and specific languages.

In linguistics, singulative number and collective number ( abbreviated and ) are terms used when the grammatical number for multiple items is the unmarked form of a noun, and the noun is specially marked to indicate a single item.

In linguistics, a causative ( abbreviated ) is a form that indicates that a subject causes someone or something else to do or be something, or causes a change in state of a non-volitional event.

In linguistics, the perfect ( abbreviated or ), occasionally called the retrospective () to avoid confusion with the perfective aspect, is a combination of aspect and tense that calls a listener's attention to the consequences, at some time of perspective ( time of reference ), generated by a prior situation, rather than just to the situation itself.

In linguistics and grammar, the interrogative mood ( abbreviated ) is an epistemic grammatical mood used for asking questions by inflecting the main verb.

In linguistics, a desiderative ( abbreviated or ) form is one that has the meaning of " wanting to X ".

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.

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 copula ( plural: copulas or copulae ) is a word used to link the subject of a sentence with a predicate ( a subject complement ).

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.

The " infixes " in the tradition of Bantu linguistics are often sequences of prefixes of this type, though there may be debate over specific cases.

Up to ten additional cases are identified in linguistics textbooks, although all of them are either incomplete ( do not apply to all nouns ) or degenerate ( appear identical to one of the six simple cases ).

During the early days of forensic linguistics in the United Kingdom, the legal defense for many criminal cases questioned the authenticity of police statements.

24-Forensic linguistics ; An Introduction to Language, Crime and Law ( with original cases in Bureau of Police Investigation and Courts ) by Azizi, Syrous & Momeni, Negar, Tehran: JahadDaneshgahi Publication, 2012.

* Forensic Linguistics Casebook-an independent wiki collecting cases where forensic linguistics has been used.

This category is based on linguistics and, in some cases, culture and genetics.

Although the concept is frequently encountered in historical linguistics from the early twentieth century, attested cases of language mixture, as opposed to code-switching, substrata, or lexical borrowing, are quite rare.

* Productivity ( linguistics ), the degree to which a grammatical process can be extended to new cases

In linguistics, clitic doubling, or pronominal reduplication is a phenomenon by which clitic pronouns appear in verb phrases together with the full noun phrases that they refer to ( as opposed to the cases where such pronouns and full noun phrases are in complementary distribution ).