Linguistics

Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

Contributors in Linguistics

Linguistics

In linguistics, intonation is the variation of pitch when speaking. Intonation and stress are two main elements of linguistic prosody. Many languages use pitch syntactically, for instance to convey ...

ellipsis

Language; Linguistics

In linguistics, it refers to any omitted part of speech that is understood; i.e. the omission is intentional. Analogously, in printing and writing, the term refers to the row of three dots (...) or ...

meaning

Language; Linguistics

In linguistics, meaning is the content carried by the words or signs exchanged by people when communicating through language. Restated, the communication of meaning is the purpose and function of ...

morphology

Language; Linguistics

A brach of linguistics which studies the identification, analysis and description of the structure of a given language's morphemes and other linguistic units, such as root words, affixes, parts of ...

syntax

Language; Linguistics

A branch of linguistics which studies how words are combined to form sentences and the rules that govern the formation of sentences.

valence

Language; Linguistics

In linguistics, valency or valence refers to the capacity of a verb to take a specific number and type of argument (noun phrase positions). A monovalent verb (for example, sleep) cannot take a direct ...

ellipse

Language; Linguistics

In mathematics, an ellipse (from the Greek for absence) is the locus of points on a plane where the sum of the distances from any point on the curve to two fixed points is constant. The two fixed ...