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Trajector-landmark organisation

Language; Linguistics

A notion developed in cognitive grammar. Relates to the relative prominence of participants in a linguistically encoded scene and reflects the more general perceptual phenomenon of figure-ground ...

Temporal sequence model

Language; Linguistics

The term given to the timebased cognitive model for time in English by Vyvyan Evans. This model relates to the concepts earlier and later. Unlike the moving ego and moving time cognitive models, ...

Typicality effects

Language; Linguistics

Relates to the phenomenon whereby a particular instance or exemplar is judged as being more or less representative of a given category. Typicality effects are held, in prototype theory, to result ...

Typical examples

Language; Linguistics

A kind of metonymic ICM. Typicality ICMs arise from a typical example of a particular category. For instance, in some cultures robin and sparrow are typical members of the category bird. This is ...

Time-based cognitive model for time

Language; Linguistics

A temporal reference frame which serves to 'locate' events by virtue of their relationship to other temporal events. A central inference associated with this cognitive model is the distinction ...

A grammatical phenomenon in which the trajector and landmark in a profiled relationship are reversed. For instance, active and passive constructions exhibit trajector-landmark reversal in that the ...