| Term | Definition / Meaning / Stand for |
| AAVE |
African American Vernacular English |
| AC |
Active Case |
| AES |
Automatic Error Scoring |
| AFL |
Australian Football League (but can refer to some linguistics contexts) |
| AG |
Agreement |
| AGT |
Agent (Linguistics) |
| AHRC |
Ancient Hebrew Research Center |
| AI |
Artificial Intelligence |
| AN |
Adnominal |
| APP |
Application (in computing) |
| ASL |
American Sign Language |
| ASP |
Aspect |
| AUXV |
Auxiliary Verb |
| BCT |
Boundary Conditions Theory |
| BEP |
Bilingual Education Program |
| BES |
Basic English Syntax |
| BFC |
Binary Formalism Class |
| BFF |
Best Friend Forever (though not strictly linguistic, used in social linguistics contexts) |
| BG |
Bilingualism Group |
| BL |
Backchanneling |
| BLM |
Basic Linguistic Model |
| BNC |
British National Corpus |
| BNS |
Binary Noun Structure |
| BNT |
Bound Noun Phrase |
| BPE |
Bilingual Program Education |
| BPI |
Bilingual Proficiency Index |
| BPS |
Bipartite Structure |
| BSA |
Basic Syntax Analysis |
| BVP |
Base Verb Phrase |
| BVP |
Binary Valued Phrase |
| BVP |
Binary Verb Phrase |
| CAG |
Cognitive Agent Grammar |
| CFL |
Chomsky-Fitch Language |
| CFS |
Context-Free Syntax |
| CGL |
Contextual Grammar of Language |
| CH |
Chunking |
| CIN |
Contrastive Interference |
| CL |
Classifier |
| CLL |
Community Language Learning |
| CLP |
Classification Prefix |
| CPL |
Cognitive Phonetic Lexicon |
| CRT |
Cognitive Restructuring Therapy |
| CS |
Code-Switching |
| CSAJ |
Cambodian Student Association in Japan |
| CSD |
Categorical Syntax Theory |
| CSD |
Cognitive Semantic Distinction |
| CST |
Cognitive Science Theory |
| CVA |
Cognitive Verbal Analysis |
| Camry |
Is an Anglicized phonetic transcription of the Japanese word kanmuri |
| Chemistry |
comes from the word alchemy |
| DB |
Discourse-Based Analysis |
| DBS |
Database Syntax |
| DCL |
Declarative Clause |
| DDZ |
Deutschen Diabetes Zentrums |
| DGA |
Dialect Grammar Analysis |
| DIA |
Dialect |
| DIA |
Discourse Interaction Analysis |
| DMM |
Discourse Memory Models |
| DMP |
Discourse Model Processing |
| DMS |
Discourse Marker Studies |
| DP |
Determiner Phrase |
| DP |
Direct Pronoun |
| DPT |
Displacement Theory |
| DSS |
Discourse Semantics Structure |
| DSS |
Discourse Structure Studies |
| DST |
Dynamic Syntax Theory |
| DTP |
Data Transfer Protocol |
| ECL |
English Common Language |
| EDU |
Education |
| EFL |
English as a Foreign Language |