Linguistics

Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

Contributors in Linguistics

Linguistics

One of the kinds of pattern which serve to govern the distribution of attention in the attentional system. The window of attention pattern involves the explicit mention of some part or parts of an ...

Verb-island construction

Language; Linguistics

A type of utterance schema. As most utterance schemas appear to revolve around verb-like elements, Michael Tomasello labels these units verb-island constructions.

Viewpoint space

Language; Linguistics

The mental space from which the discourse is currently being viewed and from which other spaces in a mental spaces lattice are currently being built.

Electronic bilingualised dictionary

Language; Linguistics

Electronic bilingualised dictionaries differ from print bilingualised dictionaries not only in the support they use (i.e. electronic format vs. paper support), but also in the way they work: in most ...

Circularity

Language; Linguistics

Circularity promotes the use of the monolingual L2 dictionary when learners use the bilingual L1→L2 dictionary, something which print immediate bilingualised dictionaries do not do.

Generalisation commitment

Language; Linguistics

One of two key commitments of the cognitive linguistics enterprise. It constitutes a commitment to the characterization of general principles that are responsible for all aspects of human ...

Formal linguistics

Language; Linguistics

Approaches to modelling language that posit explicit mechanical devices or procedures operating on theoretical primitives in order to produce the complete set of linguistic possibilities in a given ...