Linguistics

Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

Contributors in Linguistics

Linguistics

A sub-category of temporal relations. Simple temporal relations like complex temporal relations involve a process, and hence a temporal relation, because they construe scenes that hold over a given ...

Simplex

Language; Linguistics

Refers to a symbolic assembly which does not contain smaller symbolic units as sub-parts. For example, a simplex symbolic unit such as a morpheme may have a complex semantic or phonological ...

Sequential scanning

Language; Linguistics

One type of scanning. In sequential scanning, aspects of a scene are scanned in a sequential fashion so that the aspects of the scene are not simultaneously present at any stage of the scanning. This ...

Sensory experience

Language; Linguistics

Relates to experience derived from sensory perception (the 'senses') and concerns perceptual data derived from the external world. Concepts that derive from sensory experience include, among others, ...

Simple atemporal relations

Language; Linguistics

A sub-category of atemporal relations. A simple atemporal relation designates a state, as encoded by in in the following example: the paper in the bin . Simple atemporal relations contrast with ...

Linguistic typology

Language; Linguistics

A subfield of linguistics that studies and classifies languages according to their structural features. Its aim is to describe and explain the common properties and the structural diversity of the ...

Historical linguistics

Language; Linguistics

The study of language change. It has five main concerns: to describe and account for observed changes in particular languages, to reconstruct the pre-history of languages and determine their ...