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singular

A grammatical form referring to one person, thing, or group.

Noun linguistic_concept Level 280
tense

A grammatical form or category of a verb that expresses the time of an action or state, such as past, present, or future.

Noun linguistic_concept Level 280
adverb

A word or phrase that modifies a verb, adjective, another adverb, or an entire clause, typically expressing manner, place, time, frequency, degree, or...

Noun linguistic_concept Level 329
dialect

A form of a language characteristic of a particular region, social group, or community, differing in vocabulary, grammar, or pronunciation from other ...

Noun linguistic_concept Level 329
noun

A word that names a person, place, thing, idea, quality, or activity and can typically function as the subject or object of a sentence.

Noun linguistic_concept Level 329
verb

A word that expresses an action, occurrence, state, or relation and typically functions as the predicate of a sentence.

Noun linguistic_concept Level 329
affix

A letter or group of letters added to the beginning, middle, or end of a word to change its meaning or grammatical function.

Noun linguistic_concept Level 1110
clitic

A grammatical word that is unstressed or weakly stressed and phonologically dependent on a neighboring word, while retaining some independent grammati...

Noun linguistic_concept Level 1110
cognate

A word that has the same linguistic origin as another word, usually in a related language.

Noun linguistic_concept Level 1110
copula

A linking verb, especially a form of “be,” that connects a subject with a subject complement.

Noun linguistic_concept Level 1110
dative

A grammatical case that typically marks the indirect object or the recipient, beneficiary, or goal of an action.

Noun linguistic_concept Level 1110
determiner

A word or grammatical element that comes before a noun phrase and identifies, limits, or quantifies the noun, such as “the,” “a,” “this,” “my,” or “so...

Noun linguistic_concept Level 1110
diphthong

A speech sound in which the tongue or other speech organs move from one vowel position to another within a single syllable.

Noun linguistic_concept Level 1110
homonym

A word that has the same spelling or pronunciation as another word but a different meaning, such as “bank” meaning a financial institution and “bank” ...

Noun linguistic_concept Level 1110
infix

A letter, sound, or word element inserted inside a word to modify its meaning or grammatical form.

Noun linguistic_concept Level 1110
isogloss

a boundary on a map marking where a linguistic feature changes

Noun linguistic_concept Level 1110
koine

a common dialect arising from the mixing of related varieties

Noun linguistic_concept Level 1110
lexeme

An abstract vocabulary unit that includes all the grammatical forms and inflected variants associated with it, such as “run,” “runs,” “ran,” and “runn...

Noun linguistic_concept Level 1110
lexicon

The vocabulary of a language, dialect, subject, or person; a collection of words and their meanings.

Noun linguistic_concept Level 1110
modifier

A word, phrase, or grammatical element that limits, qualifies, or describes the meaning of another word or expression.

Noun linguistic_concept Level 1110
morpheme

The smallest linguistic unit that carries meaning or serves a grammatical function, such as a word, word stem, prefix, or suffix.

Noun linguistic_concept Level 1110
plosive

A speech sound produced by completely blocking the airflow in the vocal tract and then releasing the blockage, such as /p/, /t/, or /k/.

Noun linguistic_concept Level 1110
prefix

A letter, group of letters, or syllable added to the beginning of a word to change its meaning or grammatical function.

Noun linguistic_concept Level 1110
reduplication

The act or process of repeating a word, part of a word, or other linguistic element, often to express grammatical meaning or emphasis.

Noun linguistic_concept Level 1110
sibilant

A speech sound produced with a hissing or hushing noise, such as /s/, /z/, /ʃ/, or /ʒ/.

Noun linguistic_concept Level 1110
sonorant

A speech sound produced with the vocal tract relatively open, allowing continuous airflow and typically functioning as the nucleus of a syllable; vowe...

Noun linguistic_concept Level 1110
suffix

A letter or group of letters added to the end of a word to form a new word or change its grammatical function.

Noun linguistic_concept Level 1110
valency

The number and type of grammatical relationships that a word, especially a verb, can form with other words in a sentence.

Noun linguistic_concept Level 1110
vocative

A grammatical case or form used for directly addressing someone or something.

Noun linguistic_concept Level 1110
first person

The grammatical person that refers to the speaker or writer, as expressed by pronouns such as “I,” “me,” and “we.”

Noun linguistic_concept Level 1120
third person

The grammatical person used when referring to someone or something other than the speaker or the person being addressed.

Noun linguistic_concept Level 1120
locative case

A grammatical case or form that indicates the location where something is or occurs.

Noun linguistic_concept Level 1399