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Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

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Excerpting

Language; Linguistics

A grammatical operation in which an unbounded mass entity is converted into a countable entity by virtue of a portion of the mass being 'excerpted'. For instance in the following: # It is time to ...

According to Ronald Langacker , a fallacy in which linguists reason that one analysis or explanation for a given linguistic phenomenon necessarily excludes another. One version of the exclusionary ...

Experiential basis

Language; Linguistics

According to conceptual metaphor theory, conceptual metaphors are grounded in the nature of our everyday interaction with the world, either directly as in the case of primary metaphors or indirectly ...

Facet

Language; Linguistics

A term coined by Alan Cruse . A facet is a word sense that is due to the part-whole structure of an entity and is selected by a specific utterance context. As with a sub-sense, a facet is ...

External secondary reference object

Language; Linguistics

A kind of secondary reference object which serves to furnish the primary reference object with axial properties in order to locate the figure. An external secondary reference object is external to ...

Family resemblance

Language; Linguistics

A notion in prototype theory in which a particular member of a category can be assessed as to how well it reflects the prototype structure of the category it belongs to. This is achieved based on how ...

Event space

Language; Linguistics

The mental space which encodes the time reference currently in focus in discourse. Normally the event space and the focus space coincide. However, sometimes an event space can be built with respect ...