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THE LINGUISTICS STUDENT’S HANDBOOK 106
Table 17.1 continued
ON Old Norse or Old Icelandic
OS Old Saxon
OT Optimality Theory
OV object–verb
P-D present-day (e.g. in P-DE ‘present-day English’)
PF phonetic form; perfect
PIE Proto-Indo-European
PP prepositional phrase; past participle
PS phrase structure
PSG phrase-structure grammar
RG Relational Grammar
RP Received Pronunciation (sometimes remotivated as ‘reference pronunciation’)
RRG Role and Reference Grammar
SC structural change
SD structural description
SIL Summer Institute of Linguistics
SPE The Sound Pattern of English (influential book by Noam Chomsky and Morris
Halle, published in 1968).
SSBE Standard Southern British English
SSE Standard Scottish English
SVO (or any other ordering of the same letters) Subject–Verb–Object
T(G)G transformational (generative) grammar
TAM tense, aspect, mood
TEFL teaching English as a foreign language
TESL teaching English as a second language
TESOL teaching English as a second or other language
UG Universal Grammar
Vi intransitive verb
VO verb-object
VOT voice onset time
VP verb phrase
Vt transitive verb
WFR word-formation rule
WP word and paradigm
XP a phrase of any type