Linguistics

Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

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syntagmatic relation

Language; Linguistics

Morphemes are put together to words and lexical words are linked together by function words (glue). Small units are always put together in order to form larger units.

ostensive defintion

Language; Linguistics

Picture lexicons define the words by showing an image of the object found in the real word. This kind of definition is called “an ostensive definition”.

The subfield of linguistics which studies meaning that is used to understand human expression through language. The formal study of semantics intersects with many other fields of inquiry, including ...

paradigmatic

Language; Linguistics

Since the late 1960, the word paradigm has referred to a thought pattern in any scientific discipline or other epistemological context. Initially the word was specific to grammar: the 1900 ...

megastructure

Language; Linguistics

The entire dictionary, including the metadata, the front and back matter, explanations on abbreviations and grammar and the body of the dictionary.

internet

Language; Linguistics

The Internet is the worldwide, publicly accessible network of interconnected computer networks that transmit data by packet switching using the standard Internat Protocol (IP). It is a "network of ...

mesostructure

Language; Linguistics

The mesostructure refers to each lexical entry and its relation to other entries within the dictionary (entries in a dictionary are like hypertexts, a network of information).