Linguistics

Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

Contributors in Linguistics

Linguistics

In grammar, a lexical category (also word class, lexical class, or in traditional grammar part of speech) is a linguistic category of words (or more precisely lexical items) that are usually defined ...

Metaphor

Language; Linguistics

In language, a metaphor is defined as a direct comparison between two or more seemingly unrelated subjects and mainly uses "is a" to join the first subjects. A metaphor is commonly confused with a ...

Zero-derivation

Language; Linguistics

In linguistics, conversion, also called zero derivation, is a kind of word formation; specifically, it is the creation of a word from an existing word without any change in form. Conversion is more ...

Ellipsis

Language; Linguistics

In linguistics, it refers to any omitted part of speech that is understood; i.e. the omission is intentional. Analogously, in printing and writing, the term refers to the row of three dots (...) or ...

Referent

Language; Linguistics

In general, a reference is something that refers to or designates something else, or acts as a connexion or a link between two things. The objects it links may be concrete, such as books or ...

Lemma

Language; Linguistics

In linguistics, and particularly in morphology, a lemma or citation form is the canonical form of a lexeme. Lexeme refers to the set of all the forms that have the same meaning, and lemma refers to ...

Pragmatics

Language; Linguistics

A branch of linguistics which studies the ways in which context contributes to meaning. Pragmatics encompasses speech act theory, conversational implicature, talk in interaction and other approaches ...