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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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profile determinant
Language; Linguistics
In cognitive grammar, the head of a construction (2). The ‘head’ of a phrase is a single word that determines the categorical status of the phrase (for example, a noun heads a ...
profiled relationship
Language; Linguistics
In cognitive grammar, a linguistically encoded relationship between two or more participants in a given scene. For instance, in an utterance such as: Max kicked the ball , there ...
profiling
Language; Linguistics
In cognitive grammar, the conceptual ‘highlighting’ of some aspect of a domain (1). Specifically, profiling is the process whereby an aspect of some base is selected. For example, ...
projected reality
Language; Linguistics
A term coined by Ray Jackendoff . Relates to the human construal of reality which is determined by the specifics of human cognitive, neurological and perceptual mechanisms and ...
projector-based reference frame
Language; Linguistics
As with the guide-post reference frame, this reference frame also involves an external secondary reference object. In this type of reference frame, the secondary reference object ...
propagation
Language; Linguistics
The selection and use of a particular utterance containing a particular lingueme or set of linguemes which diffuses a particular altered replication (the innovation) through a ...
property
Language; Linguistics
In mental spaces theory, a property can be assigned to an element in a given mental space. In the following sentence: In that play, Othello is jealous , the expression In that ...
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