Linguistics

Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

Contributors in Linguistics

Linguistics

The notion of macrostructure has been used in several disciplines in order to distinguish large-scale, or 'global' structures, from small-scale, or 'local' structures, that is, microstructure. The ...

orthography

Language; Linguistics

The orthography of a language is the set of symbols (glyphs and diacritics) used to write a language, as well as the set of rules describing how to write these glyphs, including spelling, ...

lexicography

Language; Linguistics

The pursuit of lexicography is divided into two related disciplines: * Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries. * Theoretical lexicography is the ...

microstructure

Language; Linguistics

The structure of each definiens, the smallest unit of lexicon structure.

glyphs

Language; Linguistics

The term for the abstract entity represented by a glyph is character: a typographical character may be a grapheme (an element of a writing system), but also a numeral, a punctuation mark, or a ...

lexical valency

Language; Linguistics

The term valence has a related technical meaning in lexical semantics that elaborates on the role of argument structure - it refers to the capacity of other lexical units to combine with the given ...