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Of of pertaining to any method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way, whether united in a system specific to a country or region.

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ditransitive construction
Language; Linguistics

One of the verb argument constructions studied by Adele Goldberg in the development of her theory of construction grammar (2). The ditransitive construction is associated with ...

dividedness
Language; Linguistics

One of the schematic categories in the configurational system. Dividedness relates to the internal segmentation of a quantity and underlies the distinction between discrete and ...

domain highlighting model
Language; Linguistics

A model of lexical and conceptual relations, especially conceptual metonymy, built on the cognitive grammar view of the domain (1) and developed by William Croft . On this ...

domain matrix
Language; Linguistics

The range of possible domains to which a lexical item serves as a point of access. For instance, the lexical item uncle provides access to a large inventory of domains ...

dominion
Language; Linguistics

A key idea in the cognitive grammar account of reference point phenomena. The dominion constitutes the possible set of targets that a given reference point can invoke.

double object construction
Language; Linguistics

see ditransitive construction

abstraction
Language; Linguistics

In a usage-based model of language, the process whereby structure emerges as the result of the generalization of patterns across instances of language use. For example, a speaker ...

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