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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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objectivist semantics
Language; Linguistics

The general label applied by cognitive linguists (particularly Gilles Fauconnier, George Lakoff and Ronald Langacker in their writings) to formal approaches to semantics which ...

open class forms
Language; Linguistics

A set of linguistic forms to which it is typically easier for a language to add new members. In English these are nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. In terms of the meaning ...

optimization principle
Language; Linguistics

In mental spaces theory, the principle that allows counterparts of an element, together with properties and relations, to spread through the mental spaces lattice. The ...

outer-space relation
Language; Linguistics

In an integration network, an outer space relation is a vital relation that holds between counterparts across input spaces. This contrasts with the notion of an inner-space ...

over
Language; Linguistics

One of the most well-studied words of recent times. In a pioneering 1981 Master’s thesis Claudia Brugman carried out a detailed study of over showing the motivated nature of ...

overt closed class forms
Language; Linguistics

These are closed class forms that have conventional phonetic realization. Overt closed class forms can be bound morphemes (for example, inflectional morphemes such as the -s ...

paragons
Language; Linguistics

A kind of metonymic ICM. Individual category members that represent ideals are paragons. For instance, a car manufactured by Rolls-Royce represents a paragon in terms of luxury ...

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