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French/English Glossary of Linguistic Terms
Index of terms
Language
Entry status
Domain
French
English
French & English.
completed entries
all entries
unfinished entries
All domains
Applied Linguistics
Case Grammar
Communication Theory
Conversational Analysis
Dialectology
Discourse Analysis
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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'u' barré
(f)
ultimate constituent (UC)
(e)
umlaut
1
(f)
umlaut
1
(e)
umlaut
2
(f)
umlaut
2
(e)
unaccented
(e)
unaccented syllable
(e)
unacceptability
(e)
unacceptable
(e)
unaccusative verb
(e)
unambiguous
(e)
unary
(e)
unary transformation
(e)
unaspirated
(e)
unaspirated stop
(e)
unbound anaphora
(e)
unchecked
(e)
unchecked vowel
(e)
uncommon
(e)
uncountable
(e)
uncountable noun
(e)
underdifferentiation
(e)
undergoer
(e)
underlying
(e)
underlying form
(e)
underlying representation
(e)
underlying structure
(e)
underlying subject
(e)
understanding
(e)
understatement
(e)
understood
(e)
unduly free translation
(e)
unexpected
(e)
unfolding
(e)
unfolding of the story
(e)
ungradable antonym
(e)
ungraded antonym
(e)
ungrammatical
(e)
ungrammatical sentence
(e)
ungrammaticality
(e)
ungrammaticalness
(e)
uni
(f)
unicité
(f)
unidimensional
(e)
unidimensionnel
(f)
unidirectional dependency
(e)
unification
(f)
unification
(e)
unification grammar
(e)
uniform
(e)
uniforme
(f)
uniformité
(f)
uniformity
(e)
unilatéral
1
(f)
unilateral
1
(e)
unilateral
2
(e)
unilateral consonant
(e)
unilatéral
2
(f)
unilateral
3
(e)
unilatérale
(f)
unilingual
1
(e)
unilingual
2
(e)
unilingue
1
(f)
unilingue
2
(f)
unilinguisme
(f)
uninflected
(e)
uninterruptability
(e)
uninterrupted
(e)
union
(f)
union
(e)
union language
(e)
unique constituent
(e)
uniqueness
(e)
unit
(e)
unit capable of bearing stress
(e)
unit noun
(e)
unit of information
(e)
unité
(f)
unité accentogène
(f)
unité accentuable
(f)
unité d'accentuation
(f)
unité accentuée
(f)
unité accentuelle
(f)
unité commutable
(f)
unité dialogale minimale
(f)
unité discrète
(f)
unité émique
(f)
unité étique
(f)
unité d'information
(f)
unité lexicale
(f)
unité linguistique
(f)
unité minimale
(f)
unité phonétique
(f)
unité phonique
(f)
unité phonologique
(f)
unité phraséologique
(f)
unité porteuse de tons
(f)
unité praxéologique
(f)
unité prosodique
(f)
unité significative
(f)
unité significative minimale
(f)
unité syntaxique
(f)
unité terminologique
(f)
unité textuelle
(f)
unité tonale
(f)
univers de croyance
(f)
univers de discours
(f)
univers discursif
(f)
univers du discours
(f)
univers sémantique
(f)
universal
(e)
universal grammar
(e)
universal language
(e)
universal quantification
(e)
universal quantifier
(e)
universalism
(e)
universalisme
(f)
universalité
(f)
universality
(e)
universals
(e)
universaux
(f)
universaux absolus
(f)
universaux de substance
(f)
universaux du langage
(f)
universaux formels
(f)
universaux implicationnels
(f)
universaux linguistiques
(f)
universaux substantiels
(f)
universe of discourse
(e)
universel
(f)
univocal
(e)
univocality
(e)
univocité
(f)
univoque
(f)
unmarked
(e)
unmarked case
(e)
unmarked order
(e)
unmotivated
(e)
unpredictable
(e)
unproductive
(e)
unreadability
(e)
unreleased plosive
(e)
unrestricted universals
(e)
unrounded
(e)
unrounded vowel
(e)
unrounding
(e)
unstressed
(e)
unstressed syllable
(e)
untranslatability
(e)
untranslatable
(e)
unvoice
(e)
unvoiced
(e)
unwritten language
(e)
upper
(e)
upper articulators
(e)
upper lip
(e)
upper teeth
(e)
upper-case
(e)
upper-mid vowel
(e)
uptake
(e)
usage
1
(e)
usage
1
(f)
usage
2
(f)
usage attributif
(f)
usage descriptif
(f)
usage du langage
(f)
usage interprétatif
(f)
usage référentiel
(f)
usage
2
(e)
usager
(f)
usager de la langue
(f)
use
1
(e)
use
2
(e)
use of the familiar pronoun
(e)
use of the familiar 'tu'
(e)
use of the formal 'vous'
(e)
use of the polite pronoun
(e)
used as an adjective
(e)
user
(e)
usité
(f)
utiliser
(f)
utter
(e)
utterance
1
(e)
utterance
2
(e)
utterance act
(e)
utterance pattern
(e)
utterance production
(e)
utterance-token
(e)
utterance-type
(e)
uttereme
(e)
utterème
(f)
utterer
(e)
uvula
(e)
uvulaire
1
(f)
uvulaire
2
(f)
uvular
1
(e)
uvular
2
(e)
uvular consonant
(e)
uvular 'r'
(e)
uvularisé
(f)
uvularized
(e)