• abbreviation

  • abbreviature

  • abessive case

  • abjad

  • ablative case

  • ablaut

  • absent referent

  • absolute clause

  • absolute construction

  • absolute modifier

  • abstract noun

  • abugida

  • abusage

  • accent (phonology)

  • accent aigu (´)

  • accent bar

  • accent grave (`)

  • accidence

  • accusative case

  • acoustic phonetics

  • acrolect

  • acronym

  • active participle

  • active voice

  • acute accent (´)

  • acyrology

  • adfix

  • adianoeta

  • adjectival clause

  • adjective

  • adjective pronoun

  • adjunct

  • adnominal

  • adnominal adjunct

  • adnominatio

  • adnoun

  • adverb

  • adverbial

  • adverbial adjunct

  • adverbial clause

  • adverbial complement

  • adverbial conjunction

  • adverbial connective

  • adverbial disjunct

  • adverbial function

  • adverbial particle

  • adverbial phrase

  • adverse | averse

  • advise | advice

  • Aelfric’s Grammar

  • affect | effect

  • affix

  • agentless passive

  • agent noun

  • agglomerese

  • agglutinating

  • agglutination

  • agrammatism

  • agraphia

  • agreement

  • Airspeak

  • alethic modality

  • alexia

  • alinea (¶)

  • allative case

  • alliteration

  • allograph

  • allomorph

  • allophone

  • allude | mention

  • allusion | illusion

  • alot | a lot

  • alphabet

  • alphabetic principle

  • alright | all right

  • alternately | alternatively

  • amalgam

  • amalgamation

  • ambigram

  • ambitransitive verb

  • amelioration

  • amoral | immoral

  • ampersand (&)

  • amphibology

  • amphiboly

  • anacoluthon

  • anacronym

  • anacrusis

  • anadiplosis

  • anagram

  • anagrammatism

  • anagram pair

  • analytic language

  • anapest

  • anaphora (linguistics)

  • anaphora (rhetoric)

  • anaphoric pronoun

  • anaptyxis

  • anastrophe

  • Anglian

  • Anglo-French

  • Anglo-Latin

  • Anglo-Norman

  • Anglo-Saxon

  • Anglosphere

  • antagonym

  • antanaclasis

  • antecedent

  • anthimeria

  • anthroponomastics

  • anthroponym

  • anthroponymy

  • anticipatory "it"

  • anti-cliché

  • anti-language

  • antimetabole

  • antiphrasis

  • antisthecon

  • antistrophe

  • antonomasia

  • antonym

  • aphaeresis

  • aphasia

  • aphesis

  • aphetic forms

  • aphorism

  • apical

  • apocopate

  • apocopation

  • apocope

  • apodosis

  • apo koinou

  • apophasis

  • apophony

  • aporia

  • aposiopesis

  • apostrophe (')

  • apostrophe (rhetoric)

  • apothegm

  • apposition

  • appositional object

  • appraise | apprise

  • aptronym

  • arbitrariness

  • arbitrary gender

  • archaism

  • argot

  • Aristophanes of Byzantium

  • Ars Rhetorica

  • article

  • articulatory phonetics

  • artificial language

  • Art of Grammar

  • Aryan

  • ash

  • Ashtadhyayi

  • aspect

  • asperand (@)

  • assimilation

  • associative case

  • assonance

  • asterisk (*)

  • asterisk (etymology)

  • asterism

  • asyndetic coordination

  • asyndeton

  • atomic unit

  • at sign (@)

  • atticism

  • attic salt

  • attribute

  • attributive

  • attributive adjective

  • attributive expletive

  • attributive noun

  • auditory phonetics

  • augmentative

  • augur | auger

  • aureate term

  • author | co-author

  • autoantonym

  • autonym

  • auxesis

  • auxiliary verb