Glossary

Anomalist: an adherent of the view held by certain Greek grammarians of the 2d century B.C. that in language the connection between the word and the idea is arbitrary and based on convention alone

Circumlocution: the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea 

Clear-cut: showing distinct lucid analysis, plan, or presentation : having unmistakable clarity and definiteness

Counter-factual: contrary to fact

Deviation: departure from an established body of principles, a system of beliefs, an ideology, or a party line

Dismissed: permit or cause to leave 

Embodied: to make concrete by expression in perceptible form

Enterprise: a plan or design for a venture or undertaking

Feasible: possible of realization

Henceforth: from this point on

Hyponymy: a generic name not based on a recognizable species

Indigenous: of, relating to, or designed for natives

Introspection: the examination of one's own thought and feeling 

Jargon: confused unintelligible language

Jesting: to speak or act without seriousness or in a frivolous manner 

Mentalism:  a hypothesis that special factors of mind must be assumed to analyze, classify, or explain some or all phenomena of language 

Muffled:  to keep down

Neatly: in a smart manner

Ominous: indicative of future misfortune or calamity

Ongoing: the action of continued forward movement 

Onomatopoeia: formation of words in imitation of natural sounds

Overlay: to hide or obscure by or as if by superimposition 

Perennial: continuing or lasting for several years

Peripheral: located away from a center or central portion

Philology: study of literature that includes or may include grammar, criticism, literary history, language history, systems of writing, and anything else that is relevant to literature or to language as used in literature

Plausible: obtaining approbation or favor

Sememe: the meaning of a morpheme

Slang: to cast forcibly and usually suddenly

Syncategorematic: not capable of standing alone as a term in a proposition

Tagmemes: a constituent of a meaningful grammatical relation that cannot be analyzed into smaller meaningful features and that may be marked by features of word order, selection of allomorphs, agreement with finite verb forms, and elaboration by preceding adjectival modifiers

Taxeme: a minimum grammatical feature of selection, of order, of stress, of pitch, or of phonetic modification

Triad: a union or group of three especially of three closely related persons, beings, or things

Volitions: the acts of deciding