Glossary

Click on the word for a quick definition. When the field is braod, click on the word within the definition for a fuller discussion.

See also online linguistics glossaries:

• Glossary of Linguistic Terms by Loos, Anderson, Day, Jordan, and Wingate.
• Glossary of Neuroscience by Patrick MacCaffrey
• English Glossary of Grammar Terms - A - Z
• English Glossary of Selected Terms (Australian)
  • To expand, search the word at the SIL site. Type in the term, and you will usually get a god online article on the subject.

Neurolinguistics

Area Linguistics

• Morphemics
  • Clitic
• Phonetics
  • Phoneme
  • Allophone
  • Phonetic Alphabet
• Pragmatics
• Reading
• Semantics
  • Lemma
  • Lexicon, Lexical items
• Syntax
  • Grammar
• Word

Neurology

• Broadman's Areas
• Neuron
  • Axon
  • Dendrite
  • Cell body
  • Myelin Sheath

Language

• Arbitrary
• Combinatoriality
• General Grammar
• Mentalism