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- A Dictionary of the English Language1755 dictionary by Samuel Johnson
- A-not-A questionQuestion form found in Chinese languages
- A. J. AyerEnglish philosopher (1910–1989)
- AbbreviationShortened form of a word or phrase
- AbecedariumInscription consisting of the letters of an alphabet
- Ablative (Latin)One of the six grammatical cases of nouns in Latin
- Ablative caseGrammatical case
- Absolutive caseIn grammar, the absolutive case (abbreviated ABS) is the case of nouns in ergative–absolut
- Abstraction (linguistics)Use of terms for concepts removed from the objects to which they were originally attached
- Accidental gapPermissible word or form that does not exist
- AccumulatioFigure of speech
- Accusative caseGrammatical case used to receive the direct object of a transitive verb
- Acoustic phoneticsLinguistic subfield studying speech sound
- AcronymAbbreviation consisting of initial letters of a phrase
- AcrosticText formed from parts of another text
- ACS styleThe ACS Style is a set of standards for writing documents relating to chemistry, including
- Active voiceGrammatical voice
- Active–stative alignmentType of morphosyntactic alignment in linguistic typology
- Adele Goldberg (linguist)Adele Eva Goldberg (born 1963) is an American linguist known for her development of constr
- Adjacency pairsExample of conversational turn-taking in linguistics
- Adjective phraseType of phrase
- Adjunct (grammar)Phrase that can be removed
- Admissible ordinalIn set theory, an ordinal number α is an admissible ordinal if Lα is an admissible set (th
- Adolf NoreenSwedish linguist (1854–1925)
- Adpositional phrasePhrase modifying a lexical item
- Advanced and retracted tongue rootTongue position when pronouncing certain vowels
- Adverbial clauseEnglish language grammar
- Adverbial phraseType of phrase in grammar
- Affect (linguistics)Attitude or emotion of an utterance
- Affirmation and negationGrammatical category indicating truth or falsehood
- AffixMorpheme that is attached to a word stem to form a new word
- AffricateConsonant that begins as a stop and releases as a fricative
- African-American EnglishEnglish sociolects spoken by black people in the US and Canada
- African-American Vernacular EnglishVariety of American English
- Age-graded variationAge-associated differences in speech habits in a community
- Agent (grammar)Cause or initiator of an event
- AgglutinationProcess of word formation by combining morphemes of singular meaning
- Agglutinative languageType of synthetic language
- Agreement (linguistics)Change in form of a word depending on related words
- Ain'tEnglish-language vernacular inflected form
- Airstream mechanismMethod by which airflow is created in the vocal tract
- Akeel BilgramiAkeel Bilgrami (born 28 February 1950) is an Indian philosopher. He has been in the Depart
- Alan PrinceAmerican linguist (born 1946)
- Alaska Native languagesAlaska Natives are a group of indigenous people that live in the state of Alaska and trace
- Albanoid languagesBranch of the Indo-European language family
- AlbanologyAlbanology, also known as Albanian studies, is an interdisciplinary branch of the humaniti
- Alekano languageAlekano, or Gahuku (Gahuku-Gama), is a Papuan language spoken in Gahuku Rural LLG of Easte
- Alethic modalityAlethic modality (from Greek ἀλήθεια = truth) is a linguistic modality that indicates moda
- Allan Bell (sociolinguist)New Zealand linguist
- AllomorphVariant pronunciation of a morpheme
- AllophonePhone used to pronounce a single phoneme
- Allophone (person)In Canada, an allophone is a resident whose first language is neither French nor English.
- Alphabetic principlePredictable and systematic relationship between letters and spoken sounds
- Altaic languagesConvergence zone and proposed language family
- Alternation (linguistics)Alternate phonetic realization of a morpheme
- Alton L. BeckerAmerican linguist (1932-2011)
- Alveolar clickClick consonant sound
- Alveolar consonantConsonants articulated with the tongue against or close to the superior alveolar ridge
- Alveolar ejective fricativeConsonantal sound represented by ⟨sʼ⟩ in IPA
- Alveolar lateral ejective affricateThe alveolar lateral ejective affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoke
- Alveolar lateral ejective fricativeThe alveolar lateral ejective fricative is a type of consonantal sound, reported in the No
- Alveolar stopIn phonetics and phonology, an alveolar stop is a type of consonantal sound, made with the
- Alveolo-palatal ejective fricativeThe alveolo-palatal ejective fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken
- Ambitransitive verbVerb that is both transitive and intransitive
- American and British English grammatical differencesSome of the most notable differences between American English and British English are gram
- American and British English spelling differencesDespite the various English dialects spoken from country to country and within different r
- American BrailleAmerican Braille was a popular braille alphabet used in the United States before the adopt
- Amstetten dialectThe Amstetten dialect is a Central Bavarian dialect spoken in the Austrian town of Amstett
- AnagramWord or phrase rearranged from another
- AnalogyForm of figurative language
- Analytic languageLanguage whose grammar rarely uses word inflection
- Analytic phonicsMethod of teaching reading
- Anaphora (linguistics)Use of an expression whose interpretation depends on context
- Ancient text corporaAll known writing up to 300 CE
- Andrey ZaliznyakRussian linguist (1935–2017)
- Anêm languageThe Anêm language is a Papuan language spoken in five main villages along the northwestern
- Anglo-Norman languageExtinct dialect of Old Norman used in England
- AnimacyGrammatical and/or semantic category of nouns
- Animal languageComplex animal communication
- Ann CopestakeAnn Alicia Copestake is professor of computational linguistics and head of the Department
- Anson W. MackayAnson W. Mackay is an emeritus Professor of Geography in the Environmental Change Research
- Antecedent (grammar)Expression that gives its meaning to a pro-form in grammar
- Anthropological linguisticsStudy of language within historical and social contexts
- Anti-Georgian sentimentAnti-Georgian sentiment, also known as Kartvelophobia, refers to the dislike, hatred, disc
- Anti-literacy laws in the United StatesAnti-literacy laws in many slave states before and during the American Civil War affected
- Anticausative verbConcept in linguistics
- Antiguan and Barbudan EnglishDialect of the English language used in Antigua and Barbuda
- Antipassive voiceType of grammatical voice
- AoristVerb form that usually expresses perfective aspect and refers to past events
- ApophonySound change within a word that indicates grammatical information
- Applicative voiceGrammatical voice
- Applied linguisticsStudy of language-related problems
- ApproximantType of speech sound
- Areal featureLinguistic feature arising through language contact rather than common descent
- Argument (linguistics)Linguistic terminology
- Article (grammar)Word used with a noun to indicate the type of reference being made by the noun
- Articulatory phoneticsBranch of linguistics studying how humans make sounds
- Articulatory phonologyArticulatory phonology is a linguistic theory originally proposed in 1986 by Catherine Bro
- Arytenoid muscleThe arytenoid muscle or interarytenoid muscle is a composite intrinsic muscle of the laryn
- Ascending palatine arteryThe ascending palatine artery is an artery is a branch of the facial artery which ascends
- Asno lawProto-Indo-European sound change
- Aspirated consonantConsonant followed by a strong burst of air
- AssibilationPhonological sound change
- Associated motionGrammatical category
- Association (psychology)Mental connection between ideas or mental states
- Attraction (grammar)Type of grammatical error
- Attributive verbPart of speech
- Audio miningAudio mining is a technique by which the content of an audio signal can be automatically a
- Auditory phoneticsScience of the sounds of language
- August LeskienGerman linguist (1840–1916)
- Author profilingSystem to identify an author
- Autocausative verbAutocausative refers to a type of reflexive that denotes "in an overwhelming majority of c
- Autonomy of syntaxTerm in linguistics
- Autosegmental phonologyFormal framework in linguistics
- Auxiliary verbVerb adding grammatical meaning rather than content meaning
- AvestanLiturgical language of Zoroastrianism originating in the Old Iranian period
- AyinSixteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets