Linguistics

Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

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Paradigmatic

Language; Linguistics

Since the late 1960, the word paradigm has referred to a thought pattern in any scientific discipline or other epistemological context. Initially the word was specific to grammar: the 1900 ...

The subfield of linguistics which studies meaning that is used to understand human expression through language. The formal study of semantics intersects with many other fields of inquiry, including ...

Syntagmatic relation

Language; Linguistics

Morphemes are put together to words and lexical words are linked together by function words (glue). Small units are always put together in order to form larger units.

Ostensive defintion

Language; Linguistics

Picture lexicons define the words by showing an image of the object found in the real word. This kind of definition is called "an ostensive definition".

Megastructure

Language; Linguistics

The entire dictionary, including the metadata, the front and back matter, explanations on abbreviations and grammar and the body of the dictionary.

Cross-reference

Language; Linguistics

Cross-reference is an instance within a document of referring to information elsewhere (either within the same work or in a separate work). To cross-reference or to cross-refer (verb) is to make such ...

Intonation

Language; Linguistics

In linguistics, intonation is the variation of pitch when speaking. Intonation and stress are two main elements of linguistic prosody. Many languages use pitch syntactically, for instance to convey ...