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The scientific study of human language.
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referent
Language; Linguistics
In general, a reference is something that refers to or designates something else, or acts as a connection or a link between two things. The objects it links may be concrete, such as books or ...
part of speech (POS)
Language; Linguistics
In grammar, a lexical category (also word class, lexical class, or in traditional grammar part of speech) is a linguistic category of words (or more precisely lexical items) that are usually defined ...
metaphor
Language; Linguistics
In language, a metaphor is defined as a direct comparison between two or more seemingly unrelated subjects and mainly uses "is a" to join the first subjects. A metaphor is commonly confused with a ...
pragmatics
Language; Linguistics
A branch of linguistics which studies the ways in which context contributes to meaning. Pragmatics encompasses speech act theory, conversational implicature, talk in interaction and other approaches ...
hyponym
Language; Linguistics
In linguistics, a hyponym is a word or phrase whose semantic range is included within that of another word. For example, scarlet, vermilion, carmine, and crimson are all hyponyms of red (their ...
lemma
Language; Linguistics
In linguistics, and particularly in morphology, a lemma or citation form is the canonical form of a lexeme. Lexeme refers to the set of all the forms that have the same meaning, and lemma refers to ...
zero-derivation
Language; Linguistics
In linguistics, conversion, also called zero derivation, is a kind of word formation; specifically, it is the creation of a word from an existing word without any change in form. Conversion is more ...
