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Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

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Domain highlighting model

Language; Linguistics

A model of lexical and conceptual relations, especially conceptual metonymy, built on the cognitive grammar view of the domain (1) and developed by William Croft . On this account, a target is ...

A construct developed in the work of Jörg Zinken . Discourse metaphors emerge in discourse and are conventionally tied to a particular linguistic form. That is, they are explicitly claimed not to be ...

Degree of extension

Language; Linguistics

One of the schematic categories in the configurational system. Degree of extension relates to how far quantities of space or time 'stretch' over distance. This category interacts with boundedness, ...

Dividedness

Language; Linguistics

One of the schematic categories in the configurational system. Dividedness relates to the internal segmentation of a quantity and underlies the distinction between discrete and continuous matter. ...

Ditransitive construction

Language; Linguistics

One of the verb argument constructions studied by Adele Goldberg in the development of her theory of construction grammar (2). The ditransitive construction is associated with the syntactic frame ...

Distance

Language; Linguistics

One of the four schematic categories in the perspectival system. This category relates to distance of a referent relative to a speaker or hearer and is encoded by closed class forms. For instance, ...

Direction

Language; Linguistics

One of the four schematic categories in the perspectival system. This category interacts closely with the attentional system and concerns the direction in which an event is viewed relative to a given ...