english metalanguage

affixation

process of adding affixes to words to create new words (can be prefixes or suffixes)

abbreviation

formed by pronouncing or writing shorter forms of a word or string of words

shortening

compounding

blending

backformation

conversion of word class

initialism, acronym

contraction

nouns (incl pronouns)

verbs

auxillary verb

modal verb

adjectives

adverbs

prepositions

conjunctions

coordinator

subordinators

determiners

interjections

neologism

borrowing

commonisation

nominalisation

noun phrase

verb phrase

adjective phrase

adverb phrase

prepositional phrase

subject

object

predicate

complement

adverbial

coordination

subordination

sentence fragments

simple sentence

compound sentence

complex sentence

compound-complex sentence

declarative sentence

imperative sentence

interrogative sentence

exclamative sentence

word order (subject - verb - object)

modifiers in a noun phrase

adverbials

relation of meaning and sign

semantic domain

inference