Linguistics

Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

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Linguistics

In cognitive grammar, the head of a construction (2). The ‘head’ of a phrase is a single word that determines the categorical status of the phrase (for example, a noun heads a noun phrase). Consider ...

profiled relationship

Language; Linguistics

In cognitive grammar, a linguistically encoded relationship between two or more participants in a given scene. For instance, in an utterance such as: Max kicked the ball , there is a profiled ...

profiling

Language; Linguistics

In cognitive grammar, the conceptual ‘highlighting’ of some aspect of a domain (1). Specifically, profiling is the process whereby an aspect of some base is selected. For example, the expression ...

projected reality

Language; Linguistics

A term coined by Ray Jackendoff . Relates to the human construal of reality which is determined by the specifics of human cognitive, neurological and perceptual mechanisms and processes. From this ...

projector-based reference frame

Language; Linguistics

As with the guide-post reference frame, this reference frame also involves an external secondary reference object. In this type of reference frame, the secondary reference object is an animate ...

propagation

Language; Linguistics

The selection and use of a particular utterance containing a particular lingueme or set of linguemes which diffuses a particular altered replication (the innovation) through a linguistic ...

property

Language; Linguistics

In mental spaces theory, a property can be assigned to an element in a given mental space. In the following sentence: In that play, Othello is jealous , the expression In that play is a ...