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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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primary source concept
Language; Linguistics

In a primary metaphor, the concept which serves to structure a primary target concept. Primary source concepts are relatively simple aspects of sensory experience, such as motion, ...

primary target concept
Language; Linguistics

In a primary metaphor, the concept which is structured by virtue of a cognitive link with a primary source concept. Primary target concepts are relatively simple, ...

primitives
Language; Linguistics

Innately prescribed, non-reducible units of linguistic organization assumed by the various theories that are subsumed under formal linguistics, including formal approaches to ...

instance
Language; Linguistics

A more specific variant of a given schema. Instances of schemas serve to sanction particular instantiations. These instances, like the more general schema, are entrenched and thus ...

instance links
Language; Linguistics

One of a number of inheritance links between constructions posited in construction grammar (2). Involves a type of inheritance (2) in which one construction is a special case of a ...

instantiation
Language; Linguistics

Specific instances of language use, in which a usage pattern instantiates its corresponding schema. Instantiations, therefore, are specific instances of use, arising from a ...

integration
Language; Linguistics

One of the constituent processes of fusion (2) in LCCM theory. Integration involves the construction of larger lexical entities which proceeds by combining linguistic knowledge ...

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