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Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

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Full-specification model

Language; Linguistics

An approach to cognitive lexical semantics associated with the work of George Lakoff . In his work on the English preposition over Lakoff argued for a highly detailed inventory of senses as being ...

Relates to findings deriving from prototype theory. A fuzzy category, which can be contrasted with a classical category, is a category whose members exhibit degrees of family resemblance, with the ...

Foundation-expansion spaces

Language; Linguistics

In mental spaces theory, the 'If A then B' construction serves as a space builder to set up two successive spaces: the foundation space and the expansion space. The foundation space is a hypothetical ...

Frame

Language; Linguistics

A schematization of experience (a knowledge structure), which is represented at the conceptual level and held in long-term memory and which relates elements and entities associated with a particular ...

Formal blend

Language; Linguistics

Involves selective projection of specific lexical forms ('word projection') to the blended space in an integration network. For instance, the XYZ construction involves formal blending, in which the ...

Frame semantics

Language; Linguistics

An approach to cognitive lexical semantics developed by Charles Fillmore . Attempts to uncover the properties of the structured inventory of knowledge associated with words, and to consider what ...