Linguistics

Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

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Linguistics

In a profiled relationship when there are two landmarks, the secondary landmark is the participant which has least salience. For instance, in the following example: Max kicked the ball towards the ...

secondary reference object

Language; Linguistics

In addition to figure-ground organization, languages often allow more complex partitioning of spatial scenes. This involves segregating the ground into two reference objects in order to better locate ...

selection

Language; Linguistics

One of the three parameters of focal adjustment. Selection determines which aspects of a scene are attended to and relates to the notion of a conceptual domain (1). For instance, in the following ...

selective projection

Language; Linguistics

In an integration network, the idea that not all the structure present in the input spaces is projected to the blended spaces. It is only the information that is subject to matching which is required ...

semantic coherence principle

Language; Linguistics

One of the two principles that facilitate fusion (1) in construction grammar (2). The semantic coherence principle states that participant roles are matched with argument roles with which they ...

semantic frame

Language; Linguistics

A knowledge structure required in order to understand a particular word or related set of words. The semantic frame is central to the theory of frame semantics. To illustrate, consider the related ...

semantic network

Language; Linguistics

In cognitive lexical semantics, a linguistic unit such as a word is treated as being comprised of related senses or lexical concepts. The range of lexical concepts associated with a given word is ...