pertaining to a relationship among linguistic elements that occur sequentially in the chain of speech or writing, as the relationship between the sun and is shining or the and sun in the sentence The sun is shining.
the act or process of achieving mastery of a language
an area whose dialect has exerted influence on the dialects of surrounding areas, as reflected in an geography more or less concentrically surrounding it
a collection of maps of a certain area indicating the distribution of various phonological, morphological, lexical, or other features of the dialects of that area
one of the alternate contextually determined phonological shapes of a morpheme; ox, oxen
a subordinate clause that functions as the subject, direct object, or prepositional object of a verb