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Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

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graded grammaticality judgments

Language; Linguistics

These arise due to the phenomenon of graded grammaticality. Graded grammaticality judgments relate to the observation that the grammatical ‘well-formedness’ associated with any given utterance is a ...

grammatical idioms

Language; Linguistics

These are idiomatic expressions that obey the usual rules of grammar. For example, in the grammatical idiom spill the beans , a verb takes a noun phrase complement. Grammatical idioms contrast with ...

grammaticalization

Language; Linguistics

The process whereby lexical or content words acquire grammatical functions or existing grammatical units acquire further grammatical functions. Grammaticalization has received a great deal of ...

ground-based reference frame

Language; Linguistics

The simplest kind of reference frame. It involves just a (primary) reference object and employs the intrinsic geometry of this reference object in order to locate the figure. For instance, in an ...

grounding predication

Language; Linguistics

In cognitive grammar, a grounding predication is a schematic category that relates a particular word class to the ground. This is referred to as ‘grounding’. For instance, nouns are grounded by ...

guidepost-based reference frame

Language; Linguistics

Involves an external secondary reference object which is typically a nonanimate entity and which is external to the primary reference object. For instance, in a sentence such as the following: The ...

guiding principles of cognitive approaches to grammar

Language; Linguistics

The two central assumptions which guide and thereby give rise to cognitive approaches to grammar. These are: the symbolic thesis and the usage-based thesis.