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- DanglishMixture of Danish and English languages
- Danish phonologySystematic organization of spoken sounds of the Danish language
- Dative caseGrammatical case generally used to indicate the noun to which something is given
- Dative constructionGrammatical way of constructing a sentence
- Dative shiftShifting sentence forms with two-object verbs
- Daughter languageLanguage considered as derived from another (parent)
- David AdgerScottish linguist and professor
- De dicto and de reDistinction in formal semantics
- DeclensionInflection of words according to number, gender, and/or case
- Decoding (semiotics)Decoding, in semiotics, is the process of interpreting a message sent by an addresser (sen
- Defective verbVerb with incomplete conjugation
- Defining vocabularyList of words used by lexicographers to write dictionary definitions
- DefinitenessSemantic feature of noun phrases in linguistics
- Degrees of comparison of adjectives and adverbsFeature in the morphology or syntax of some languages
- DeldenDelden is a city in the Dutch province of Overijssel and, since 2001, in the municipality
- DemonstrativeWords indicating which object is being referred to
- Dene–Yeniseian languagesProposed language family
- DenotationLiteral meaning of an expression
- Dent, MinnesotaDent is a city in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 173 at t
- Dental and alveolar ejective stopsConsonantal sounds represented by ⟨tʼ⟩ in IPA
- Dental consonantConsonant that is articulated with the tongue against the upper teeth
- Dental ejective fricativeThe dental ejective fricative is a rare type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken lan
- Deontic modalityLinguistic modality expressing how the world should be
- Dependency grammarClass of modern grammatical theories
- Dependent and independent verb formsIn the Goidelic languages, dependent and independent verb forms are distinct verb forms; e
- Dependent clauseGrammatical clause adding information to a primary clause
- Determiner phraseConcept in linguistics
- Deutsches WörterbuchThe Deutsches Wörterbuch (German: ; "The German Dictionary"), abbreviated DWB, is the larg
- Diachrony and synchronyComplementary viewpoints in linguistic analysis
- Dialect cardPunitive mark used in Japanese education
- Dialect continuumGeographic range of dialects that vary more strongly at the distant ends
- Dialect levellingMeans by which dialect differences decrease
- Diary studies in TESOLDiary on teaching or learning
- DiasystemSystem for contrasting related languages or dialects
- Dictionnaire de l'Académie françaiseFrench language dictionary
- DictoglossDictogloss, also known as grammar dictation, is a language teaching technique that is used
- Digraph (orthography)Pair of characters used to write one phoneme
- DigraphiaUsing multiple writing systems for one language
- Dilbilim AraştırmalarıLinguistic journal in Turkey
- DiminutiveWord modified to convey a slighter degree
- Diploma in Teaching English to Speakers of Other LanguagesDELTA is an English language teaching (ELT) qualification for experienced Teachers of Engl
- Direct method (education)Language-teaching methodology
- Direct–inverse alignmentProposed concept in linguistic typology
- Directed listening and thinking activityThe directed listening and thinking activity (DLTA) is a strategy that was first identifie
- DisCoCatMathematical framework for natural language processing
- Discontinuity (linguistics)Syntactic separation from a modifying element
- Discourse markerLinguistic category
- Discourse relationA discourse relation (also coherence relation or rhetorical relation) is a description of
- DisfixSubtractive morpheme
- Dissimilation (phonology)Linguistic phenomenon where sounds diverge
- Dissolution of parliament in LatviaThe Constitution of Latvia, ratified on February 15, 1922, contains a provision regarding
- Distancing languagePhrasing technique which disassociates speaker from subject
- Distant readingStudy of literary data
- Distinctive featureBasic unit distinguishing one sound from another in a language
- DistributionalismTheory of language
- Ditransitive verbVerb which takes a subject and two objects
- Do-supportUsing 'do' in negated clauses, questions, and other constructions
- Dog whistle (politics)Political messaging using coded language
- Dogme language teachingEnglish teaching method
- Dolch word listList of frequently used English words
- Domingo de Santo TomásFray Domingo de Santo Tomás, O.P. (1499 – December 1570) was a Spanish Dominican missionar
- Dominus (title)Dominus is the Latin word for master or owner. Dominus was used as a Roman imperial title.
- Don Ringe (linguist)American linguist (born 1954)
- Donald Davidson (philosopher)American philosopher (1917–2003)
- Dorset dialectTraditional dialect spoken in Dorset, England
- Double IsReduplication of "is" (to be) copula verbs
- Double negativeGrammatical construction such as 'not nothing'
- Downward entailingIn linguistic semantics, a downward entailing (DE) propositional operator is one that cons
- Dual (grammatical number)Grammatical number in addition to singular and plural
- Dual languageDual language is a form of education in which students are taught literacy and content in
- Dual-route hypothesis to reading aloudTheory of two separate mental mechanisms
- DubbingPost-production process used in filmmaking and video production
- Dudleya NorthEnglish orientalist
- DvandvaType of linguistic compound
- DyfedegDyfedeg or Y Ddyfedeg is one of the four traditional dialects of the Welsh language. Spoke
- Dynamic and formal equivalenceTwo dissimilar translation approaches
- Dynamic semanticsFramework in logic and natural language semantics
- Dynamic verbA dynamic or fientive verb is a verb that shows continued or progressive action on the par