Linguistics

Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

Contributors in Linguistics

Linguistics

The defining property of any given lexical concept, as each lexical concept has a unique lexical profile. A lexical profile relates to the range of semantic arguments and grammatical constructions ...

lexicon-grammar continuum

Language; Linguistics

The idea that while there is a qualitative distinction between linguistic units encoded by open class forms and closed class forms respectively, there is not a principled distinction between the two. ...

lingueme

Language; Linguistics

An element of language that is realized in an utterance and that can therefore count as a replicator. A lingueme includes sound segments, words, morphemes and grammatical constructions. Crucially, ...

linguistic relativity

Language; Linguistics

The view that the language one speaks affects or determines how you see the world, most famously expounded in the writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf in the 1930s and 1940s, but also influenced by the ...

linguistic unit

Language; Linguistics

A general term for the fundamental unit of language. This term is sometimes employed in cognitive linguistics in place of theoryspecific terms such as symbolic assembly and construction (1). ...

location

Language; Linguistics

One of the four schematic categories in the perspectival system. This category relates to the location that a perspective point occupies relative to a given utterance. The linguistic system of ...

mapping

Language; Linguistics

One of the factors which governs the attentional system in the conceptual structuring system. Mapping governs the way in which parts of an attention pattern are mapped onto parts of the scene ...