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Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

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variable embodiment

Language; Linguistics

The idea that different organisms have different kinds of experiences due to the nature of their embodiment.

The entity in conceptual metonymy which serves to provide access to or to highlight a second entity known as a target. A vehicle is typically encoded linguistically. For instance, in the following ...

verb argument constructions

Language; Linguistics

The set of constructions associated with verbal argument structure studied by Adele Goldberg in developing her theory of construction grammar (2). These include the caused motion construction, the ...

principle of maximized motivation

Language; Linguistics

The principle in construction grammar (2) which accounts for the motivation exhibited by constructions. This principle states that if one construction is syntactically similar to another then it is ...

principled polysemy

Language; Linguistics

A model of lexical representation developed within cognitive lexical semantics. Principled polysemy was developed by Vyvyan Evans and Andrea Tyler in response to perceived shortcomings with the ...

processing time

Language; Linguistics

A term coined by Ronald Langacker to refer to the cognitive representation of time, where time is a medium of conceptualization. In this sense processing time is ‘real time’, in the sense that any ...

profile

Language; Linguistics

The entity or relation designated by a word. The profile functions by highlighting a substructure within a larger unit known as the base. Take the example hypotenuse . This word profiles the longest ...