Linguistics

Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

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viewpoint space

Language; Linguistics

The mental space from which the discourse is currently being viewed and from which other spaces in a mental spaces lattice are currently being built.

vital relations

Language; Linguistics

In an integration network, vital relations are the connectors that serve to identify counterparts within and across mental spaces. Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner argue that there is a ...

What’s X doing Y? construction

Language; Linguistics

An idiomatic expression studied by Paul Kay and Charles Fillmore in support of their theory of construction grammar (1). Like the let alone construction, the What’s X doing Y? construction is a ...

One of the kinds of pattern which serve to govern the distribution of attention in the attentional system. The window of attention pattern involves the explicit mention of some part or parts of an ...

XYZ construction

Language; Linguistics

A grammatical construction (1) specialized for prompting for conceptual integration studied in detail by Mark Turner . Some examples of this construction include the following: # Money is the root ...

rule/list fallacy

Language; Linguistics

A term coined by Ronald Langacker to describe a specific instance of the exclusionary fallacy. To commit the rule/list fallacy is to exclude, for instance, listing a unit such as a word if there is ...