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Linguistics
The scientific study of human language.
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Sense
Language; Linguistics
The literal meaning of a word or an expression,independent of situational context.
Immediate constituent analysis
Language; Linguistics
The analysis of a sentence in terms of its immediate constituents---word groups(or phrases),which are in turn analysed into the immediate constituents of their own,and the process goes on until the ...
Deep structure
Language; Linguistics
The abstract representation of the syntactic properties of a construction,i.e. The underlying level of structural relations between its different constituents ,such sa the relation between,the ...
Surfacte structure
Language; Linguistics
The final stage in the syntactic derivation of a construction,which closely corresponds to the structural organisation of a construction people actually produce and receive.
Paradigmatic relation
Language; Linguistics
A relation holding between elements replaceable with each other at a particular place in a structure,or between one element present and he others absent.
Langue
Language; Linguistics
French word meaning the system or code which allows the realisation of the individual messages, and as such is the object of linguistics. It should be compared with parole, the messages themselves.
