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The scientific study of human language.

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Utterance schema

Language; Linguistics

A term coined by the developmental psychologist Michael Tomasello . Relates to an early multi-word utterance in first language acquisition which exhibits functional asymmetry. That is, the ...

Usage-based thesis

Language; Linguistics

One of the two guiding principles of cognitive approaches to grammar. The usage-based thesis holds that the mental grammar of the language user (his or her knowledge of language) is formed by the ...

The entity in conceptual metonymy which serves to provide access to or to highlight a second entity known as a target. A vehicle is typically encoded linguistically. For instance, in the following ...

Unidirectionality

Language; Linguistics

The view in conceptual metaphor theory that conceptual metaphors serve to map structure from a source domain to a target domain but not vice versa. For example, while love is conceptualised in terms ...

Verb argument constructions

Language; Linguistics

The set of constructions associated with verbal argument structure studied by Adele Goldberg in developing her theory of construction grammar (2). These include the caused motion construction, the ...