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Glottopedia is a freely editable encyclopedia for linguists by linguists that is currently being built up. It will contain dictionary articles on all technical terms of linguistics and is multilingual. In addition, there are survey articles, biographical articles und language articles, potentially on all linguists and all languages.

Glottopedia also exists in German, and in the future hopefully also in Italian, Spanish, French, Russian, Chinese, and Japanese.

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Glottopedia Team

Editors-in-Chief: Martin Haspelmath, Sven Naumann

Technical Editors: Götz Burger, Hans-Jörg Bibiko

Scientific Advisory Council: Pier Marco Bertinetto, Greville G. Corbett, Östen Dahl, Martin Haase, John McWhorter, N.N., N.N., N.N., N.N.

Dictionary articles

Syntax

argument structure, dependency grammar, ergativity, case theory, phrase structure grammar, pied piping, subject, subcomparative construction

Morphology

accusative case, Distributed Morphology, infinitive, lexeme, morpheme, prefix, supine

Phonetics and Phonology

absolute neutralization, accent, affricate, allophone, amphibrach, anaptyxis, aphaeresis, apicodental, apocope, appendix (in syllable structure), approximant, archiphoneme, archisegment, articulator theory, aspiration, assimilation, autosegment, autosegmental phonology, bilabial, biuniqueness, breathy voice, coda, compensatory lengthening, Contrastive Specification Theory, dactyl, declarative phonology, degenerate foot, dependency phonology, diphthongization, epenthesis, extrametricality, extrasyllabicity, feature (in phonology), feature geometry, fricative, geminate, government phonology, h-aspiré, homorganic, iamb, implosive, interlude, International Phonetic Alphabet, intonation, intonation contour, labiodental, laryngeal, lateral, lenition, liaison, liquid, metrical phonology, minimal word constraint, monophthong, monophthongization, mora, nasal, nasalization, natural class, nonlinear phonology, nucleus (in phonology), Obligatory Contour Principle, obstruent, onset, paragoge, phonetics, phonological word, phonotactic, pitch accent, prenasalization, prependix, prosodic word, prothesis, Raddoppiamento Sintattico, Radical Underspecification Theory, Received Pronunciation, rhotic, rhyme, schwa, segment, skeletal position, sonority, stop, stress, stress-timed and syllable-timed, syllabification, syllable peak, syncope, tense (in phonology), ternary foot, tone, umlaut, underspecification, velar, velarization, vowel, vowel harmony

Semantics

ambiguity, antonym, commissive, connotation, de dicto and de re, denotation, directive, face, hedge, holonym, hyperonym, hyponym, idiom, illocution, implicature, indirect speech act, meaning, Natural Semantic Metalanguage, performative verb, perlocutionary act, proposition, protasis, semantic marker, sense, specificity, speech act, vagueness

Computational Linguistics

KWIC concordance, parser

Biographical articles

Karl Ferdinand Becker ·Johannes Benzing · Simon C. Dik ·Dionysius Thrax · Stefan Elders · H. Allan Gleason Jr. · Einar Haugen · Marco Haverkort · Karl Erich Heidolph · Georg Friedrich Meier · Harry L. Shorto · John Sinclair ·Sergej A. Starostin ·Jost Winteler

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