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French/English Glossary of Linguistic Terms
Index of terms
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Applied Linguistics
Case Grammar
Communication Theory
Conversational Analysis
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Ethnography of Communication
Functional Grammar
Functionalism
Functionalism (A. Martinet)
Generative / Transformational Grammar
Glossematics
Government and Binding
Historical Linguistics
Indo-European Historical Linguistics
Literacy / Education
Logic
Modular Approach to Discourse Analysis (Geneva)
Morphology
Narrative Semiotics/Literary Semiotics (Wales)
Neurolinguistics
Oral tradition
Phonology
Pragmatics
Prague School
Psycholinguistics
Rhetorics
Semantics
Sociolinguistics
Speech-Act Theory
Syntax
Tagmemics
Theory of Enunciative Operations
Typology
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obedience conditions
(e)
object
1
(e)
object
2
(e)
object complement
(e)
object control
(e)
object language
(e)
object of preposition
(e)
object of result
(e)
object pronoun
(e)
objectal
(f)
object-control predicate
(e)
objectif
1
(f)
objectif
2
(f)
objective
1
(e)
objective
2
(e)
objective case
(e)
objective conjugation
(e)
objective genitive
(e)
objective personal pronoun
(e)
objective pronoun
(e)
objectively
(e)
objectivement
(f)
objectivité
(f)
objectivity
(e)
objet
(f)
objet affecté
(f)
objet direct
(f)
objet effectué
(f)
objet indirect
(f)
objet interne
(f)
objet primaire
(f)
objet résultatif
(f)
objet secondaire
(f)
obligatif
(f)
obligation
(f)
obligation
(e)
obligative
(e)
obligatoire
(f)
obligatory
(e)
obligatory expansion
(e)
obligatory modifier
(e)
obligatory rule
(e)
obligatory tagmeme
(e)
obligatory transformation
(e)
oblique
(f)
oblique
(e)
oblique case
(e)
oblique question
(e)
observable
(f)
observable
(e)
observateur
(f)
observation
(f)
observation
(e)
observation participante
(f)
observational adequacy
(e)
observer
(e)
observer's paradox
(e)
obsolescence
(f)
obsolescence
(e)
obsolescent
(f)
obsolescent
(e)
obsolete
(e)
obsolète
(f)
obstacle
(f)
obstruant
(f)
obstruante
(f)
obstruction
(e)
obstruent
1
(e)
obstruent
2
(e)
obviatif
(f)
obviation
(f)
obviation
(e)
obviative
(e)
Occam's razor
(e)
occlusif
(f)
occlusion
(f)
occlusion
(e)
occlusion glottale
(f)
occlusive
(f)
occlusive
1
(e)
occlusive
2
(e)
occlusive aspirée
(f)
occlusive double
(f)
occlusive glottale
(f)
occlusive non-aspirée
(f)
occur
(e)
occurrence
1
(f)
occurrence
1
(e)
occurrence facultative
(f)
occurrence
2
(f)
occurrence
2
(e)
Ockham's razor
(e)
octave
(f)
octave
(e)
oesophagus
(e)
off-glide
(e)
official language
(e)
omission
(f)
omission
(e)
onde
(f)
onde périodique
(f)
onde sonore
(f)
ondulatoire
(f)
one-place
(e)
one-place predicate
(e)
one-place verb
(e)
one-to-one correspondence
(e)
on-glide
(e)
onomasiological
(e)
onomasiologie
(f)
onomasiologique
(f)
onomasiology
(e)
onomastics
(e)
onomastique
(f)
onomatology
(e)
onomatopée
(f)
onomatopéique
(f)
onomatopoeia
(e)
onomatopoeic
(e)
onomatopoeic word
(e)
onset
(e)
onset of voicing
(e)
on-the-job training
(e)
ontif
(f)
ontogenèse
(f)
ontogenesis
(e)
ontogénie
(f)
ontogeny
(e)
ontological
(e)
ontologie
(f)
ontologique
(f)
ontology
(e)
opacité
1
(f)
opacité
2
(f)
opacité référentielle
(f)
opacity
1
(e)
opacity
2
(e)
opaque
(f)
opaque
(e)
opaque context
(e)
open
1
(e)
open
2
(e)
open approximation
(e)
open class
(e)
open juncture
(e)
open list
(e)
open network
(e)
open syllable
(e)
open system
(e)
open transition
(e)
open vowel
(e)
opening
1
(e)
opening
2
(e)
opening section
(e)
opening
3
(e)
open-mid vowel
(e)
operand
(e)
opérande
(f)
opérateur
(f)
operation
1
(e)
opération
1
(f)
operation
2
(e)
opération
2
(f)
operational
(e)
operational organization
(e)
opérationnel
(f)
opératoire
(f)
operator
(e)
opponent
(e)
opposant
(f)
opposition
(f)
opposition
(e)
opposition bilatérale
(f)
opposition binaire
(f)
opposition constante
(f)
opposition distinctive
(f)
opposition équipollente
(f)
opposition graduelle
(f)
opposition isolée
(f)
opposition multilatérale
(f)
opposition (multilatérale) hétérogène
(f)
opposition (multilatérale) homogène
(f)
opposition neutralisable
(f)
opposition non distinctive
(f)
opposition (phonologique)
(f)
opposition privative
(f)
opposition proportionnelle
(f)
opposition tonale
(f)
oppositional function
(e)
oppositionnel
(f)
optatif
(f)
optative
(e)
optative mood
(e)
optimal
(f)
optimal
(e)
optimal relevance
(e)
option
(f)
option
(e)
optional
(e)
optional expansion
(e)
optional occurrence
(e)
optional rule
(e)
optional tagmeme
(e)
optional transformation
(e)
optional variant
(e)
optionality
(e)
oracy
(e)
oral
1
(f)
oral
1
(e)
oral
2
(f)
oral
2
(e)
oral
3
(f)
oral air(-)stream mechanism
(e)
oral cavity
(e)
oral consonant
(e)
oral literature
(e)
oral reading
(e)
oral tradition
(e)
oral translation
(e)
oral vowel
(e)
oralité
(f)
orality
(e)
order
1
(e)
order
2
(e)
order
3
(e)
order
4
(e)
order
5
(e)
order of constituents
(e)
ordered
(e)
ordered rules
(e)
ordered transformation
(e)
ordering
(e)
ordering of rules
(e)
ordinaire
(f)
ordinal
(f)
ordinal
(e)
ordinal number
(e)
ordinal numeral
(e)
ordinary
(e)
ordinary conversation
(e)
ordinary language philosophy
(e)
ordonnance
(f)
ordonné
(f)
ordonner
1
(f)
ordonner
2
(f)
ordre
1
(f)
ordre
2
(f)
ordre
3
(f)
ordre alphabétique
(f)
ordre canonique
(f)
ordre chronologique
(f)
ordre de règles
(f)
ordre (de règles) extrinsèque
(f)
ordre (de règles) intrinsèque
(f)
ordre des constituants
(f)
ordre des mots
(f)
ordre fixe
(f)
ordre libre
(f)
ordre linéaire
(f)
ordre neutre
(f)
ordre préférentiel
(f)
ordre progressif
(f)
ordre régressif
(f)
ordre structural
(f)
ordre variable
(f)
oreille
(f)
organes
(f)
organes articulatoires
(f)
organes de la parole
(f)
organes mobiles
(f)
organes phonateurs
(f)
organes phonatoires
(f)
organes vocaux
(f)
organisation
(f)
organisation compositionnelle
(f)
organisation énonciative
(f)
organisation graphique
(f)
organisation informationnelle
(f)
organisation opérationnelle
(f)
organisation périodique
(f)
organisation phono-prosodique
(f)
organisation polyphonique
(f)
organisation préférentielle
(f)
organisation relationnelle
(f)
organisation sémantique
(f)
organisation séquentielle
(f)
organisation stratégique
(f)
organisation topicale
(f)
organization
(e)
organization form
(e)
organizing centre
(e)
organs
(e)
organs of speech
(e)
orientation
(f)
orientation
(e)
orthoépie
(f)
orthoepy
(e)
orthographe
(f)
orthographic
(e)
orthographic transcription
(e)
orthographic word
(e)
orthographier
(f)
orthographique
(f)
orthographisme
(f)
orthography
(e)
orthophonie
1
(f)
orthophonie
2
(f)
orthophoniste
(f)
oscillation
(f)
oscillation
(e)
oscillogram
(e)
oscillogramme
(f)
oscillograph
(e)
oscillographe
(f)
oscilloscope
(f)
oscilloscope
(e)
ostensif
(f)
ostension
(f)
ostension
(e)
ostensive
(e)
ostensive communication
(e)
ostensive definition
(e)
ostensive-inferential communication
(e)
other-initiated repair
(e)
otherness
(e)
other-repair
(e)
out of phase
(e)
outil grammatical
(f)
outline
(e)
output
(f)
output
1
(e)
output
2
(e)
ouvert
1
(f)
ouvert
2
(f)
ouverture
1
(f)
ouverture
2
(f)
overcoding
(e)
overcorrection
(e)
overdetermination
(e)
overdifferentiated
(e)
overgeneralization
(e)
overlap
1
(e)
overlap
2
(e)
overlap
3
(e)
overlapping
(e)
overt
(e)
overt prestige
(e)
overtone
(e)
oxymore
(f)
oxymoron
(f)
oxymoron
(e)
oxyton
1
(f)
oxyton
2
(f)
oxytone
(e)
oxytonic
(e)
oxytonique
(f)