Linguistics

Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

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Closed class forms

Language; Linguistics

A set of linguistic forms to which it is typically more difficult for a language to add new members. Closed class forms are normally taken to include the 'grammatical' or 'function' words of a ...

Consists of a number of converging ICM s which collectively give rise to a complex cluster which thus forms a stable large-scale model. The cluster model is held to be psychologically more complex ...

Cognitive economy

Language; Linguistics

Relates to the way in which human categorization works so as to provide a maximally efficient way of representing information about frequently encountered objects. Cognitive economy is often stated ...

Cognitive lexical semantics

Language; Linguistics

An approach to lexical semantics (word-meaning) that assumes the guiding principles of cognitive semantics. Key contributors to this approach include Claudia Brugman, Hubert Cuyckens, Paul Deane, ...

Cognition

Language; Linguistics

Relates to all aspects of conscious and unconscious mental function. In particular, cognition constitutes the mental events (mechanisms and processes) and knowledge involved in a whole host of tasks ...

Coding

Language; Linguistics

In cognitive grammar, the process whereby a speaker searches for a linguistic expression in order to express a concept. If the symbolic assembly the speaker arrives at matches symbolic assemblies ...

Distributed spatial semantics

Language; Linguistics

An approach to analysing meaning and expression in spatial language developed by Chris Sinha and Tania Kuteva . This approach starts from the rejection of the assumption that spatial meaning (for ...