Linguistics

Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

Contributors in Linguistics

Linguistics

A cognitive entity that while having emerged via the dynamic processes of conceptual integration has nevertheless become relatively well established in a particular linguistic community. Consequently, ...

Contrast set

Language; Linguistics

A notion developed within the theory of principled polysemy as applied to prepositions. Certain clusters of prepositions appear to pattern as a system serving to divide up various spatial ...

Constructional meaning

Language; Linguistics

The idea, associated with the family of construction grammars, that a construction (1) has a conventional meaning associated with it.

Idealised cognitive model (ICM)

Language; Linguistics

A theoretical construct developed by George Lakoff in order to account for the typicality effects uncovered by prototype theory. An ICM is a relatively stable mental representation that represents ...

Ideal meaning

Language; Linguistics

A term coined by Anette Herskovits in her work on English prepositions to refer to the central or most salient lexical concept associated with a given linguistic unit.

Holophrase

Language; Linguistics

When a child first produces identifiable units of language at around the age of twelve months these are individual lexical items. Yet, these lexical items do not relate to the corresponding adult ...

Homonymy

Language; Linguistics

A lexical relation which concerns two or more distinct words that happen to share the same form in sound (homophones) and/or in writing (homographs). For example, the form bank relates to two ...