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Linguistics
The scientific study of human language.
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Middle English
Language; Linguistics
Middle English is the name given by historical linguistics to the diverse forms of the English language spoken between the Norman invasion of 1066 and the mid-to-late 15th century, when the Chancery ...
Early modern English
Language; Linguistics
Refers to the stage of the English language used from about the end of the Middle English period (the latter half of the 1400s) to 1650. Thus, the first edition of the King James Bible and the works ...
Old English
Language; Linguistics
Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon and English) is an early form of the English language that was spoken in parts of what is now England and southern Scotland between the mid-fifth century and the ...
Blogroll
Language; Linguistics
A blogroll is a collection of links to other weblogs. When present, blogrolls are often found on the front page sidebar of most weblogs. Various weblog authors have different criteria for including ...
Corpus
Language; Linguistics
(plural corpora) or text corpus is a large and structured set of texts (now usually electronically stored and processed). They are used to do statistical analysis, checking occurrences or validating ...
Intension
Language; Linguistics
(or " connotation") refers to the meaning or characteristics encompassed by a given word, often expressed by a definition. Intension is often discussed with regard to extension. Intension refers to ...
Compounding
Language; Linguistics
A compound is a word (lexeme) that consists of more than one free morpheme. An endocentric compound consists of a head, i.e. the categorical part that contains the basic meaning of the whole ...
