Linguistics

Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

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Meaning

Language; Linguistics

In linguistics, meaning is the content carried by the words or signs exchanged by people when communicating through language. Restated, the communication of meaning is the purpose and function of ...

A brach of linguistics which studies the identification, analysis and description of the structure of a given language's morphemes and other linguistic units, such as root words, affixes, parts of ...

Metonymy

Language; Linguistics

In rhetoric, metonymy is the substitution of one word for another with which it is associated. In cognitive linguistics, metonymy refers to the use of a single characteristic to identify a more ...

Valence

Language; Linguistics

In linguistics, valency or valence refers to the capacity of a verb to take a specific number and type of argument (noun phrase positions). A monovalent verb (for example, sleep) cannot take a direct ...

Ellipse

Language; Linguistics

In mathematics, an ellipse (from the Greek for absence) is the locus of points on a plane where the sum of the distances from any point on the curve to two fixed points is constant. The two fixed ...

Ontology

Language; Linguistics

In philosophy, ontology is the study of being or existence. It seeks to describe or posit the basic categories and relationships of being or existence to define entities and types of entities within ...