Linguistics

Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

Industry: Language

Add a new term

Contributors in Linguistics

Become a Contributors

Linguistics

Polysemy links

Language; Linguistics

One of a number of inheritance links between constructions posited in construction grammar (2). Involves a type of inheritance (2) in which a construction with a similar syntactic organisation to ...

In a primary metaphor, the concept which serves to structure a primary target concept. Primary source concepts are relatively simple aspects of sensory experience, such as motion, vertical elevation, ...

Primary target concept

Language; Linguistics

In a primary metaphor, the concept which is structured by virtue of a cognitive link with a primary source concept. Primary target concepts are relatively simple, phenomenologically real aspects of ...

Principle of maximised motivation

Language; Linguistics

The principle in construction grammar (2) which accounts for the motivation exhibited by constructions. This principle states that if one construction is syntactically similar to another then it is ...

Primitives

Language; Linguistics

Innately prescribed, non-reducible units of linguistic organisation assumed by the various theories that are subsumed under formal linguistics, including formal approaches to grammar, meaning and ...

Symbolic thesis

Language; Linguistics

One of the two guiding principles of cognitive approaches to grammar. The symbolic thesis holds that the fundamental unit of grammar is a form meaning pairing, a linguistic unit (called a symbolic ...

Target domain override

Language; Linguistics

A constraint on the Invariance Principle. Serves to ensure that a metaphoric entailment that is incompatible with the target domain will fail to map. That is, the target domain can override a ...