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A natural language has developed spontaneously over time and it has done it gradually. While an artificial language has been created in a relatively short time, usually for a definite aim. Now that ot …

What is being done there is a pro-form substitution (replacement); "this/that" are called pro-forms. I think that in this case "a pronoun substitutes a noun or a noun phrase, with or without a deter …

In this context, the term accent might be a bit ambiguous. And in fact, you did make a distinction between what you meant and foreign accents. It is a synonym of stress, so it's not that strange that …

The neutral phrase for this phenomenon is language contact which is one of the ways in which language change can occur. What you have reported in your question is a matter of (having a wrong) perspec …

I'm reading Possession in Yucatec Maya by Christian Lehmann (March 2003) and I came across this passage: The prototypical possessum is a concrete entity, normally an individual (as opposed to a mass) …

The common expression is tip-of-the-tongue, but the terminology adopted by psycholinguists seems to be simply TOT. …

Not sure about what language you're working on, but the Nominative is referred to as Direct case (including also the vocative, when available), while the rest of the cases, including Dative and Geniti …

I'd like to go a bit more in depth about this. Deixis Traditionally, by deixis is meant the location and identification of person, objects, events, processes and activities being talked about, or r …

I think this extract from the Mixed language's wikipedia article will help you: Different from a pidgin: A mixed language differs from a pidgin in that the speakers developing the language are …

Technically it belongs to Lexicology, but since this last one in turn belongs to Linguistics, you could say that Etymology is part of it as well. Plus, Lexicography is actually under Lexicology. See …

A language is a complex system of communication, spoken or written, verbal or non-verbal. Actually, natural languages are spoken or signed: written language is an artificial creation made by man and …

Recursion is a property of language. From a Linguistics viewpoint, recursion can also be called nesting. As I've stated in this answer to what defines a language (third-last bullet point), recursion …

The Hamburg Sign Language Notation System, also abbreviated as HamNoSys is considered to be analogous to the IPA for spoken languages. There is a guide for it that I found but I'm not sure it's the mo …

Phonetics is about the physical aspect of sounds. In phonetics, sounds are called phones. Phonetics has subcategories where it studies different kinds of sounds. But in general, we usually mean articu …

Perhaps you mean the difference between a copula and a non-copular verb? The main difference is that while the copula is used as a linking verb, which defines the subject, a non-copular verb defines …