Linguistics

Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

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conceptual structure

Language; Linguistics

Pertains to knowledge representation, including the structure and organization of concepts in the human conceptual system. Can relate to stable or temporary knowledge structures assembled for ...

conceptual structuring system

Language; Linguistics

One of two systems within Leonard Talmy’s Conceptual Structuring System Approach. The conceptual structuring system provides the structure, skeleton or ‘scaffolding’ for a given scene, across ...

conceptual structuring system approach

Language; Linguistics

The approach to grammar developed by Leonard Talmy . Like other cognitive approaches to grammar Talmy assumes the symbolic thesis and thus treats grammatical units as being inherently meaningful. ...

conceptual system

Language; Linguistics

The repository of concepts available to a human being. The repository constitutes a structured and organized inventory which facilitates categorization and conceptualization. Each concept in the ...

conceptualization

Language; Linguistics

The process of meaning construction to which language contributes. It does so by providing access to rich encyclopedic knowledge and by prompting for complex processes of conceptual ...

A common capacity, shared by all humans, to generate concepts, which derives from fundamental and shared aspects of human cognition. Rather than positing universal linguistic principles, cognitive ...

conceptually autonomous

Language; Linguistics

The property of being independently meaningful which is associated with nominal predications. For instance, expressions such as bed or slipper invoke concepts that are independently meaningful. ...