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Aphasia
Susan Edwards, Christos Salis
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Aphasia Introduction Aphasia is a language disorder acquired subsequent to brain damage that affects production and understanding of spoken and...
Argument Structure
Beth Levin
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Argument Structure Introduction The term “argument structure” is used to refer to the lexical representation of argument-taking lexical items—...
Auxiliaries
Bronwyn M. Bjorkman
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Auxiliaries Introduction It is impossible to provide a definition of “auxiliary” that is consistent with all of its uses in the literature, bu...
Bilingualism and Multilingualism
Tej K. Bhatia
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Bilingualism and Multilingualism Introduction Bilingualism and Multilingualism is an interdisciplinary and complex field. As is self-evident f...
Classifiers
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Classifiers Introduction Classifiers and noun classes are basic kinds of noun categorization devices. They fall into several subtypes depending...
Clauses, Relative
Mark de Vries
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Relative Clauses Introduction Relative clauses are subordinate clausal modifiers. Semantically, they contain a variable that is somehow relate...
Comparative-Historical Linguistics
Joseph Salmons
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Comparative-Historical Linguistics Introduction Historical linguistics is about how and why language changes over time. Comparative linguistic...
Compositionality
Jeff Pelletier
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Compositionality Introduction “Compositionality” is used in two different senses, and sometimes the literature seems to be antagonistic because...
Compounding
Sergio Scalise, Francesca Forza
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Compounding Introduction Compounding is the morphological operation that—in general—puts together two free forms and gives rise to a new word. ...
Connectionism
Ping Li, Xiaowei Zhao
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
Connectionism Introduction Connectionism, also known as parallel distributed processing (PDP) or artificial neural networks, has been an impor...
Conversation Analysis
Jack Sidnell
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Conversation Analysis Introduction Conversation analysis (CA) is an approach to the study of social interaction that emerged in the 1960s in t...
Conversation, Maxims of
Benjamin Spector
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Maxims of Conversation Introduction One of the central goals of contemporary linguistic pragmatics is to account for how competent language us...
Coordination
Grant Goodall
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Coordination Introduction Coordination is a phenomenon in which two or more elements, known as “conjuncts,” are linked together, often with a ...
Creoles
Pieter Muysken, Margot van den Berg
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Creoles Introduction Languages in contact can result in the emergence of several new languages, ranging from pidgins and Creoles to intertwined...
Definiteness
Klaus von Heusinger
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Definiteness Introduction Definiteness is a semantic-pragmatic notion that is closely associated with the use of the definite article (or deter...
Dene-Yeniseian
Edward J. Vajda
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Dene-Yeniseian Introduction Dene-Yeniseian is a historical-comparative linguistic hypothesis that claims a genealogical relationship between th...
Dialogue
Raquel Fernández
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Dialogue Introduction Research on dialogue is concerned with the study of how communication takes place through language in conversation. This...
Distinctive Features
Daniel Currie Hall, Jeff Mielke
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Distinctive Features Introduction In phonological theory the building blocks of speech sounds are often argued to be what are called “distincti...
Eskimo-Aleut
Anna Berge
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Eskimo-Aleut Introduction The Eskimo-Aleut language family is spoken from the Chukotka Peninsula in the Russian Far East, across subarctic and ...
Evidentials
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Evidentials Introduction Evidentiality is a grammatical category with source of information as its primary meaning—whether the speaker saw the ...
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