Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Someone who engages in this study is called a linguist.

A

Abbreviation -

Abessive case -

Ablaut -

Absolutive case -

Abugida -

Accusative case -

Acute accent -

Accent (phonetics) -

Accent (sociolinguistics) -

Acronym -

Adessive case -

Adjective -

Adjunct -

Adposition -

Adpositional phrase -

Adverb -

Adverbial -

Adverbial phrase -

Affix -

Affricate consonant -

Agglutination -

Agglutinative language -

Allative case -

Allomorph -

Allophone -

Alphabet -

Analytic language -

Anaphora -

Animacy -

Anthropological linguistics -

Alveolar consonant -

Antonym -

Aorist -

Applied linguistics -

Approximant -

Areal feature -

Article -

Articulatory gestures -

Articulatory phonetics -

Aspect -

Asterisk -

Attrition -

Attraction -

Augment (Bantu languages) -

Augment (Indo-European) -

Auxiliary verb

B

Back-formation -

Backronym -

Bilabial consonant -

Breathy voice -

Breve

C

Calque -

Capitalization -

Capitonym -

Cardinal vowel -

Case -

Case in tiers -

Cedilla -

Chiasmus -

Circumfix -

Circumflex -

Clefting -

Click consonant -

Closed-class word -

Cognate -

Cognitive science -

Coherence -

Colloquialism -

Comitative case -

Comparative -

Comparative linguistics -

Comparative method -

Compound noun and adjective -

Compound verb -

Computer-assisted language learning -

Computational linguistics -

Conjugation -

Conjunct -

Conjunction -

Consonant -

Constructed language -

Context -

Contrastive analysis -

Contrastive linguistics -

Conversation analysis -

Copula -

Corpus linguistics -

Cranberry morpheme -

Creaky voice -

Creole language -

Cryptanalysis -

Cuneiform

D

Dangling modifier -

Dative case -

Decipherment -

Declension -

Defective verb -

Descriptive linguistics -

Dental consonant -

Derivation -

Determiner -

Diacritic -

Diaeresis -

Dialect -

Dictionary -

Diphthong -

Diplomatics -

Discourse -

Disjunct -

Dislocation -

Double acute accent -

Dual grammatical number

E

Eggcorn -

Ecolinguistics -

Elative case -

Endangered language -

English pronunciation -

Entailment -

Ergative case -

Error -

Essive case -

Ethnologue -

Etymology -

Etymologist -

Eurolinguistics -

Evolution of languages -

Evolutionary linguistics -

Example-based machine translation -

Exegesis -

Expletive -

Expletive attributive

F

False cognate -

False friend -

Figleaf-

Formal language -

Fricative consonant -

Function word -

Fusional language -

Future perfect -

Future tense

G

Gender -

General semantics -

Genitive case -

Germanic umlaut -

Gerund -

Glottal consonant -

Glottal stop -

Glottochronology -

Government -

Grammar -

Grammatical gender -

Grammatical mood -

Grammatical number -

Grammatical voice -

Grave accent -

Great consonant shift -

Great Vowel Shift -

Grimm's law -

Guttural consonant

H

Hacek -

Heaps' law -

Hermeneutics -

Hiatus (linguistics) -

High rising terminal -

Historical-comparative linguistics -

Historical linguistics -

History of linguistics -

Homonym -

Hypernym -

Hyponym

I

I-mutation -

Ideogram -

Idiolect -

Idiom -

Illative case -

Impersonal pronoun -

Impersonal verb -

Implication (pragmatics) -

Indo-European languages -

Inessive case -

Infinitive -

Infix -

Inflected language -

Inflection -

Initialism -

Initial-stress-derived noun -

Instructive case -

Interjection -

Interactional linguistics -

International Phonetic Alphabet -

IPA chart for English -

Irregular verb

J

K

L

Labiodental consonant -

Langue and parole -

Language -

Language acquisition -

Language attrition -

Language education -

Language families and languages -

Language game -

The Language Instinct -

Language isolate -

Laryngeal theory -

Lateral consonant -

Lemma -

Lexeme -

Lexical semantics -

Lexicography -

Lexicology -

Lexicon -

Linguist -

Linguistic anthropology -

Linguistic ecology -

Linguistic layers -

Linguistic relativity -

Linguistics -

Linguistics basic topics -

Liquid consonant -

List of linguists -

Loanword -

Locative case

M

Machine translation -

macron -

Manner of articulation -

Mass noun -

Mathematical linguistics -

Meaning -

Meronymy -

Metathesis -

Minimal pair -

Mispronunciation -

Modality -

Mood -

Mora -

Morpheme -

Morphology -

Mutual intelligibility

N

Nasal consonant -

Nasal stop -

Natural language -

Natural language processing -

Natural language understanding -

Negative raising -

Neologism -

Neurolinguistics -

Nomenclature -

Nominative case -

Noun -

Noun phrase -

Null morpheme

O

Onomasiology -

Onomatopoeia -

Open class word -

Optimality theory -

Origin of language -

Orthography -

Object–subject–verb -

Object–verb–subject -

Oxytone

P

Palatal consonant -

Paradigm -

Paroxytone -

Part of speech -

Participle -

Particle -

Partitive case -

Past tense -

Perfect (grammar) -

Persuasion -

Pharyngeal consonant -

Philology -

Philosophy of language -

Phonation -

Phone -

Phonetics -

Phonetic complement -

Phonetic transcription -

Phonology -

Phoneme -

Phonemics -

Phrase -

Phrase structure rules -

Pidgin -

Place of articulation -

Pleonasm -

Pluperfect -

Polysemy -

Polysynthetic language -

Portmanteau -

Possessive case -

Postalveolar consonant -

Postposition -

Pragmatics -

Prefix -

Preposition -

Prepositional phrase -

Prescription and description -

Present tense -

Presupposition -

Preterite -

Principles of interpretation -

Profanity -

Prolative case -

Pronoun -

Pronunciation -

Prosody (linguistics) -

Proparoxytone -

Pseudo-acronym -

Pseudo-Anglicism -

Psycholinguistics -

Punctuation

Q

Quirky subject

R

Radical -

Retroflex consonant -

Retronym -

Rhetoric -

Rhotics -

Romanization -

Rounded vowel

S

SAMPA -

Schwa -

Second language -

Semantics -

Semantic class -

Semantic feature -

Semantic property -

Semiotics -

Semivowel -

Sentence -

Sentence function -

Shall -

Sign -

Sign language -

Sociolinguistics -

Sociolect -

Sociophonetics -

Slack voice -

Slang -

Sound change -

Sound pattern of English -

SOV -

Speaker recognition -

Specialised lexicography -

Speech communication -

Speech act -

Speech disorder -

Speech processing -

Speech recognition -

Speech synthesis -

Speech therapy -

Spiritus asper -

Split infinitive -

Standard language -

Stop consonant -

Stratificational linguistics -

String grammar -

Structuralism -

Stylistics -

Subcategorization -

Superlative -

Suppletion -

Subject -

SVO -

Supine -

Syllabary -

Syllable -

Synonym -

Syntactic ambiguity -

Syntactic categories -

Syntax -

Synthetic language

T

Tagmemics -

Telicity -

Tense -

Tense–aspect–mood -

Terminology -

Text linguistics -

Text types -

Thematic role -

Theoretical linguistics -

Thesaurus -

Thou -

Time–manner–place -

Tonal language -

Tone (linguistics) -

Tongue-twister -

Transcription -

Transformational-generative grammar -

Translation -

Translative case -

Truth condition -

T–V distinction -

Typology

U

Uninflected word -

Universal grammar -

Uvular consonant

V

V2 word order -

Variety -

Velar consonant -

Verb -

Verb–object–subject -

Verb phrase -

Verb–subject–object -

Verbal noun -

Verner's law -

Vocative case -

Vowel -

Vowel harmony -

Vowel stems -

W

Weak suppletion -

Will (verb) -

Word -

Word-sense disambiguation -

Writing -

Writing systems -

Wug test

X

X-bar theory

Y

Z

Zipf's law