Linguistics

Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

Contributors in Linguistics

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, vertical elevation, ...

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, phenomenologically real aspects of ...

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 grammar, meaning and ...

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 constitute part of ...

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 related ...

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 schematic representation. ...

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 units: lexical ...