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Terminology: synonymy
Like any technical area, linguistics is full of jargon. What is more, the jargon
has been developing for thousands of years. The result is that some has been
rejected, some has been redefined, some is used as much to mark the theory in
which comments are being made as to mark a difference in content, and some
is misused. In this section a glossary is provided in table 19.1 with terms that
may be synonymous (and if they are not, it will sometimes be because they are
defined by a particular person or within a particular theory as not being synonymous).
In some cases, terms have multiple usages, and only one set of
equivalents may be given here: formant may be used in morphology or in phonetics
(see section 18), but only in morphology does it have formative as an
equivalent term. Words marked with a dagger ‘†’ are believed to be now superseded
by newer terminology, and are never put on the right-hand side of the
glossary as an explanation. Otherwise, any term on the right-hand side of an
equivalence is also listed on the left-hand side.
Table 19.1 Synonymous terminology
abbreviation alphabetism, initialism
Ablaut apophony
accidence (†) inflectional morphology
adjective epithet
adjective clause relative clause
African American Vernacular Black English (Vernacular),
English (AAVE) Ebonics
agglutinating agglutinative
agglutinative agglutinating
agraphia dysgraphia
agreement concord