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The scientific study of human language.

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Resultative construction

Language; Linguistics

One of the verb argument constructions studied by Adele Goldberg in the development of her theory of construction grammar (2). The resultative construction is illustrated by the examples below: # ...

A term coined by Ronald Langacker to describe a specific instance of the exclusionary fallacy. To commit the rule/list fallacy is to exclude, for instance, listing a unit such as a word if there is ...

Scanning

Language; Linguistics

A notion developed in cognitive grammar. Relates to how the aspects of a scene are perceived, visually or otherwise, and give rise to a conceptual representation. Two types of scanning are ...

Sanction

Language; Linguistics

The way in which a particular mental schema licences a particular instantiation.

XYZ construction

Language; Linguistics

A grammatical construction (1) specialised for prompting for conceptual integration studied in detail by Mark Turner . Some examples of this construction include the following: # Money is the root ...

What’s X doing Y? construction

Language; Linguistics

An idiomatic expression studied by Paul Kay and Charles Fillmore in support of their theory of construction grammar (1). Like the let alone construction, the What's X doing Y? construction is a ...

Vital relations

Language; Linguistics

In an integration network, vital relations are the connectors that serve to identify counterparts within and across mental spaces. Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner argue that there is a ...