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The scientific study of human language.

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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 the syntactic frame ...

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 continuous matter. ...

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 account, a target is ...

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 including, at the very least, ...

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 acquiring English ...