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- C-commandConcept in generative grammar
- CalqueLoaned translation of an expression
- Cambridge English Teaching FrameworkThe Cambridge English Teaching Framework is a professional development framework, designed
- Cameroonian EnglishDialect of English
- CamfranglaisMixed language of Cameroon
- Canadian EnglishVariety of English language
- Capitalization in EnglishWhen to use capital letters in English
- Cardinal vowelsCardinal vowels are a set of reference vowels used by phoneticians in describing the sound
- Caret (proofreading)The caret () is a V-shaped grapheme, usually inverted and sometimes extended, used in proo
- Carole ChaskiAmerican linguist (born 1955)
- Case governmentGrammatical term
- Catalan languageRomance language
- CatchphrasePhrase or expression recognized by its repeated utterance
- Categorical perceptionPerception of distinct categories in a variable along a continuum
- Catena (linguistics)Unit of syntax and morphology
- Catherine E. SnowAmerican psychologist
- CausativeAspect of verb grammar
- Center embeddingProcess of embedding one phrase in another
- Central vowelType of vowel sound
- Centum and satem languagesIndo-European linguistic classification
- CertTESOLProfessional qualification for teaching English as a foreign language
- Chain shiftSound changes affecting each other
- Charles F. VoegelinAmerican linguist (1906–1986)
- Charles W. MorrisCharles William Morris (May 23, 1901 – January 15, 1979) was an American philosopher and s
- Chartered Institute of LinguistsUK professional body
- ChavacanoSpanish-based creole of the Philippines
- Checked toneSyllable type in the phonology in Middle Chinese
- Chicano EnglishDialect of English spoken in the Southwestern United States
- Chilean SpanishVariety of Spanish language
- China Experimental Fast ReactorThe China Experimental Fast Reactor (CEFR) is China's first fast nuclear reactor, and is l
- Chinese classifierMeasure words in Chinese language
- Christiane Marchello-NiziaLinguist & philologist (born 1941)
- Christopher PottsAmerican linguist and cognitive scientist
- Cia-Cia languageAustronesian language spoken on Buton island, Indonesia
- CircumfixType of agglutinative inflection
- CircumflexDiacritical mark (◌̂)
- Claire BowernAustralian linguist
- Classical languageOld language with established literature or use
- Classifier (linguistics)Type of word or affix that is used to accompany nouns
- Clausula (rhetoric)In Roman rhetoric, a clausula (, plural clausulae ; Latin for "little close or conclusion"
- Clerical scriptChinese script widely used in the Han dynasty
- Click consonantSpeech sounds in several African languages
- Clinical linguisticsSub-discipline of applied linguistics
- Clipped compoundForm of linguistic clipping for a compound term
- Clipping (morphology)Reduction of a word to one of its parts
- Clipping (phonetics)In phonetics, clipping is the process of shortening the articulation of a phonetic segment
- CliticWord that is only pronounceable in combination with another word
- Close back rounded vowelVowel sound represented by ⟨u⟩ in IPA
- Close back unrounded vowelVowel sound represented by ⟨ɯ⟩ in IPA
- Close central rounded vowelVowel sound represented by ⟨ʉ⟩ in IPA
- Close central unrounded vowelVowel sound represented by ⟨ɨ⟩ in IPA
- Close front rounded vowelVowel sound represented by ⟨y⟩ in IPA
- Close front unrounded vowelVowel sound represented by ⟨i⟩ in IPA
- Close readingCareful, sustained interpretation of a brief passage of a text
- Close vowelA close vowel, also known as a high vowel (in U.S. terminology), is any in a class of vowe
- Close-mid back rounded vowelVowel sound represented by ⟨o⟩ in IPA
- Close-mid back unrounded vowelVowel sound represented by ⟨ɤ⟩ in IPA
- Close-mid central rounded vowelVowel sound represented by ⟨ɵ⟩ in IPA
- Close-mid central unrounded vowelVowel sound represented by ⟨ɘ⟩ in IPA
- Close-mid front rounded vowelVowel sound represented by ⟨ø⟩ in IPA
- Close-mid front unrounded vowelVowel sound represented by ⟨e⟩ in IPA
- ClusivityGrammatical distinction in pronouns and agreement
- Cluster reductionSimplification of consonant clusters in certain environments
- ClutteringSpeech and communication disorder
- CoarticulationCoarticulation in its general sense refers to a situation in which a conceptually isolated
- Code-mixingMixing of two languages or varieties in speech
- Code-switchingChanging between languages during a conversation
- Codification (linguistics)Normalisation of a language's variations
- Coercion (linguistics)Linguistic reinterpretation
- CognateWords inherited by different languages
- Cognitive categorizationOrganization of mental concepts
- Cognitive grammarLinguistic theory
- Cognitive linguisticsDiscipline combining linguistics, psychology and cognitive science
- Cohesion (linguistics)Grammatical and lexical linking in text
- CoLangThe Institute on Collaborative Language Research or CoLang is a biennial training institut
- Collaborative modelLinguistic theory
- Collective nounType of noun referring to collections as a unit
- CollocationFrequent occurrence of words next to each other
- Collocation extractionCollocation extraction is the task of using a computer to extract collocations automatical
- ColloquialismLinguistic style used for casual communication
- Collostructional analysisGrammatical analysis method family
- Color termWord or phrase that refers to a specific color
- Colorless green ideas sleep furiouslySyntactically well-formed, semantically incongruous phrase
- Comitative caseGrammatical case denoting accompaniment
- CommaPunctuation mark (,)
- Comma spliceUse of a comma to join independent clauses
- Commercial PressThe Commercial Press (Chinese: 商务印书馆; pinyin: Shāngwù Yìnshūguǎn) is the first modern publ
- Commodilla catacomb inscriptionInscription in Vulgar Latin in a catacomb in Rome
- Common European Framework of Reference for LanguagesLanguage assessment rubric
- Communication studiesAcademic discipline
- Communicative competenceBroad internalized communicative knowledge
- Comparative caseGrammatical case
- Comparative methodScientific technique used in historical linguistics
- Comparison of American and British EnglishThe English language was introduced to the Americas by the arrival of the English, beginni
- Comparison of Portuguese and SpanishLinguistic comparison
- Compensatory lengtheningLengthening of vowel sounds in place of a deleted consonant
- Competition modelTheory of language acquisition
- Complement (linguistics)Word or phrase necessary to complete an expression
- ComplementizerIn linguistics (especially generative grammar), a complementizer or complementiser (glossi
- Compound (linguistics)Lexeme (word or sign) that consists of more than one stem
- Compound subjectTwo or more individual noun phrases coordinated to form a single, longer noun phrase
- Comprehensible outputHypothesis in language acquisition
- Comprehension approachLanguage-learning approach
- Computational lexicologyComputational lexicology is a branch of computational linguistics, which is concerned with
- Computational semanticsMeaning represented by natural language
- Computational semioticsComputational semiotics is an interdisciplinary field that applies, conducts, and draws on
- Computer-assisted translationUse of digital logic devices to facilitate communication across languages
- Concept-Oriented Reading InstructionEducation program
- ConcordancerA concordancer is a computer program that automatically constructs a concordance. The outp
- Conditional logicFamily of logics for natural-language and counterfactual conditionals
- Conditional moodGrammatical mood
- Conservative and innovative languageLinguistics term for language forms that change little over time
- ConservativityProposed linguistic universal
- Consonant clusterGroup of consonants without a vowel in between
- Consonant harmonyPhonological assimilation
- Consonant voicing and devoicingIn phonology, voicing (or sonorization) is a sound change where a voiceless consonant beco
- Constituent (linguistics)Word or a group of words
- Construct stateMorphological form of a noun
- Constructed languageIntentionally devised human language
- Construction grammarFamily of theories within the field of cognitive linguistics
- Content and language integrated learningLearning through an additional language
- Content clauseClause elaborated by a main clause
- Content determinationContent determination is the subtask of natural language generation (NLG) that involves de
- Content-based instructionSteps of using content based instruction for second language learners
- ContextNon-language factors that enhance understanding of communication
- Context-sensitive grammarType of formal grammar
- Continuous and progressive aspectsGrammatical contrast of present tense verbs
- Contraction (grammar)Shortening of words or phrases
- Contrast (linguistics)In semantics, contrast is a relationship between two discourse segments.
- Contrastive analysisLinguistic study
- Contrastive linguisticsPractice-oriented linguistic approach
- Contrastive rhetoricStudy of how common languages are used among different cultures
- Control (linguistics)Type of grammatical construction
- ConverbAdverbial form of verb (adverb constructed from verbs)
- Conversion (word formation)Grammatical process of a lexeme changing part of speech
- Cooperative principlePragmatics of conversational communication
- Coordination (linguistics)Complex syntactic structure linking two or more elements
- Copula (linguistics)Functional part of speech in most languages
- Copy editingImproving the formatting, style, and accuracy of text
- CoreferenceIn linguistics, coreference, sometimes written co-reference, occurs when two or more expre
- Coronal consonantType of consonant sound involving tongue placement
- Corporate jargonBuzzwords and specialized vocabulary used by businesspeople
- Corpus linguisticsBranch of linguistics that studies language through examples contained in real texts
- Corsican alphabetAlphabet of the Corsican language
- Count nounNoun or noun phrase whose quantity is discrete and usually an integer
- Counterfactual conditionalConditionals that discuss what would have been if things were otherwise
- Course in General Linguistics1916 book on linguistics
- Court reporterA court reporter, court stenographer, or shorthand reporter is a person whose occupation i
- Cover symbolLetters or symbols representing broad classes of sounds
- Covert prestigeSociolinguistic phenomenon
- Cowgill's law (Germanic)Proto-Germanic sound law
- CrasisVowel sandhi process
- Creaky voiceType of phonation
- Critical discourse analysisInterdisciplinary approach to study discourse
- Critical language awarenessIn linguistics, critical language awareness (CLA) refers to an understanding of social, po
- Critical readingForm of language analysis
- Cross-Linguistic Linked DataLinguistics database project
- Cross-linguistic onomatopoeiasBecause of the nature of onomatopoeia, there are many words which show a similar pronuncia
- Crosslinguistic influenceWays bilingual people's languages influence their use of the other
- Crossover effectsRestrictions on binding or coreference
- Cultural translationPhilosophy of translation
- CulturomicsResearch using digitized texts
- Cyrillic o variantsThis is a list of rare glyph variants of Cyrillic letter O. They were proposed for inclusi