| French / English Glossary of Linguistic Terms

French / English Glossary of Linguistic Terms

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I

iamb

iambic

icon

iconic

iconicity

ictus

ideal speaker-hearer

ideational function

identical environment

Identification Principle

identificational

identified

identifier

identifier

identify

identity

ideogram

ideograph

ideographic writing

ideophone

ideophonic

idiolect

idiom

idiom

idiomatic

idiomatic expression

idiomatic translation

I-language

illative

ill-formed

illiteracy

illocution

illocutionary act

illocutionary force

illocutionary force indicating device

illocutionary negation

illocutionary verb

image

image

imaginary

imitate

imitation

imitative

immanence

immanent

immediate

immediate constituent analysis

immediate constituent (I.C.)

immediate context

immediate dominance

immediate domination

immediate future

immediately dominate

immutability of the sign

imperative

imperative mood

imperative sentence

imperfect

imperfect

imperfect tense

impersonal

impersonal construction

impersonal passive

impersonal pronoun

impersonal verb

implicate

implicational tendency

implicational universals

implicit

implicit information

implicit performative

implicitly

implied

implosion

implosive

implosive

implosive consonant

imply

improper

in accordance (with)

(in) complementary distribution

in intervocalic position

in the background

in the infinitive

inalienable possession

inanimate

inborn

inceptive

inchoative

inchoative verb

incidence

include

included

inclusion

inclusive

incompatibility

incomplete

incomplete sentence

incomplete verb

incontinguous assimilation

incorporating language

indefinite

indefinite article

indefinite description

indefinite determiner

indefinite expression

indefinite pronoun

independent clause

independent pronoun

independent sentence

index

index

index

index

index card

indexical

indexical

indexical deixis

indexical expression

indexing

indicate

indicative

indicative marker

indicative mood

indicator

indigenous language

indirect

indirect anaphora

indirect discourse

indirect object

indirect question

indirect quotation

indirect speech

indirect speech act

indirect theta-marking

individual bilingualism

individual variant

individual variation

indivisible whole

Indo-European language

induction

inductive

inductive inference

inductive method

inequality

inergative verb

inessive

infelicity

infer

inference

inferential computation

infinitival clause

infinitive

infinitive

infinitive clause

infix

infixation

inflect

inflected

inflected language

inflecting language

inflection

inflection [INFL]

inflectional affix

inflectional ending

inflectional language

inflectional morpheme

inflectional morphology

inflectional suffix

influence

influence

informal

informal speech

informant

information structure

information theory

information unit

informational encapsulation

informational organization

informative intention

informativeness

infrequent

ingressive

ingressive

ingressive

ingressive consonant

inhalation

inherency

inherent

inherent feature

initial

initial

initial position

initial syllable

initialism

initially

initiating move

injective

injective

innate

innateness

innateness hypothesis

innatist

innovation

input

insert

insertion

insertion

instance

instantaneous release

institutional bilingualism

instructor

instrument

instrumental case

instrumental case

instrumental phonetics

instrumentalism

insult

integrated

intelligibility

intension

intensional definition

intensional semantics

intensity

intensity

intensive

intensive

intent

intention

interactional context

interactional frame

interactional module

interactional ritual

interactional sociolinguistics

interchangeability

interchangeable

interconsonantal

interdental consonant

interdependence

interdependence

interdependency link

interdisciplinary

interior

interjectional phrase

interlingual translation

interlinguistics

intermediary language

intermediate projection

internal

internal argument

internal focalization

internal incidence

internal negation

internal open juncture

internal reconstruction (IR)

internal sandhi

internalization

internalized language

international language

International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)

International Phonetic Association

interoceptivity

interpersonal function

interpret

interpretability

interpretive capacity

interpretive semantics

interpretive use

interrelation(ship)

interrogative adjective

interrogative adverb

interrogative form

interrogative inversion

interrogative mood

interrogative pronoun

interrogative sentence

interrogative transformation

interrogative word

intersect

intersentential switching

intertext

intertextual dimension

intertextual relation

intertextuality

interval

interview

intervocalic position

intonation

intonation

intonation contour

intonation pattern

intonational contour

intonational phrase

intonational stress

intonation(-)group

intoneme

intralingual translation

intralinguistic

intransitive verb

intrasentential switching

intrinsic

intrinsic (rule) ordering

intrusion

intrusive

intrusive consonant

intuition

intuitive

intuitive judgment

invalidate

invalidate a hypothesis

invariable

invariable word

invariant

invariant

inventio

invention

inventory

inversion

inversion

inversion

invert

inverted commas

irony

irrealis

irregular

irregular alternation

irregular conjugation

irregular sandhi

irrelevant

irrelevant

irrelevant feature

island

island condition

island constraint

isochrony

isogloss

isoglottic line

isograph

isolatable

isolate

isolate

isolated

isolated opposition

isolating

isolating language

isolation

isomorphic

isophone

isotopy

item

item(-)and(-)arrangement

item(-)and(-)process

item-possessor phrase

iteration

iterative