Linguistics

Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

Industry: Language

Add a new term

Contributors in Linguistics

Become a Contributors

Linguistics

closed class forms

Language; Linguistics

A set of linguistic forms to which it is typically more difficult for a language to add new members. Closed class forms are normally taken to include the ‘grammatical’ or ‘function’ words of a ...

Consists of a number of converging ICM s which collectively give rise to a complex cluster which thus forms a stable large-scale model. The cluster model is held to be psychologically more complex ...

coding

Language; Linguistics

In cognitive grammar, the process whereby a speaker searches for a linguistic expression in order to express a concept. If the symbolic assembly the speaker arrives at matches symbolic assemblies ...

cognition

Language; Linguistics

Relates to all aspects of conscious and unconscious mental function. In particular, cognition constitutes the mental events (mechanisms and processes) and knowledge involved in a whole host of tasks ...

cognitive approaches to grammar

Language; Linguistics

A cognitive approach to grammar is concerned with modeling the language system (the mental ‘grammar’) in ways which are consistent with the generalization commitment and the cognitive commitment ...

cognitive commitment

Language; Linguistics

One of the two foundational commitments of cognitive linguistics. Represents the view that the principles of linguistic structure should reflect what is known about human cognition from other ...

cognitive economy

Language; Linguistics

Relates to the way in which human categorization works so as to provide a maximally efficient way of representing information about frequently encountered objects. Cognitive economy is often stated ...