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The scientific study of human language.

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objectivist semantics

Language; Linguistics

The general label applied by cognitive linguists (particularly Gilles Fauconnier, George Lakoff and Ronald Langacker in their writings) to formal approaches to semantics which assume that ...

open class forms

Language; Linguistics

A set of linguistic forms to which it is typically easier for a language to add new members. In English these are nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. In terms of the meaning contributed by the ...

optimization principle

Language; Linguistics

In mental spaces theory, the principle that allows counterparts of an element, together with properties and relations, to spread through the mental spaces lattice. The optimization principle ...

In an integration network, an outer space relation is a vital relation that holds between counterparts across input spaces. This contrasts with the notion of an inner-space relation. To illustrate, ...

over

Language; Linguistics

One of the most well-studied words of recent times. In a pioneering 1981 Master’s thesis Claudia Brugman carried out a detailed study of over showing the motivated nature of word-meaning, arguing ...

overt closed class forms

Language; Linguistics

These are closed class forms that have conventional phonetic realization. Overt closed class forms can be bound morphemes (for example, inflectional morphemes such as the -s plural marker as in ...

paragons

Language; Linguistics

A kind of metonymic ICM. Individual category members that represent ideals are paragons. For instance, a car manufactured by Rolls-Royce represents a paragon in terms of luxury cars, Nelson Mandela ...