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Lexical Semantics
Dirk Geeraerts
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Lexical Semantics Introduction Lexical semantics is the study of word meaning. Two issues of demarcation are relevant in this respect. First, ...
Lexical-Functional Grammar
Yehuda N. Falk
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Lexical-Functional Grammar Introduction Lexical-functional grammar, usually referred to as LFG, is a theoretical approach to syntax and related...
Lexicography
Howard Jackson
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2017-06-27
LexicographyIntroductionLexicography is concerned with dictionaries, both with the processes of compilation and with the study of the finished product...
Linguistic Accommodation
David Beaver, Kristie Denlinger
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2022-01-12
Linguistic AccommodationIntroductionAccommodation is the process whereby a listener makes adjustments in response to behavior of the speaker. In the a...
Linguistic Anthropology
Paul Garrett
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-07-24
Linguistic Anthropology ...
Linguistic Areas
Rik van Gijn, Pieter Muysken
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2016-08-30
Linguistic AreasIntroduction“Linguistic areas” are defined as social spaces (regions, countries, (sub-)continents) in which languages from different f...
Linguistic Landscapes
Jhonni Rochelle Charisse Carr
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2019-10-30
Linguistic LandscapesIntroductionLinguistic landscape studies is the investigation of displayed language in a particular space, generally through the ...
Linguistic Prescriptivism
Robin Straaijer
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2017-08-23
Linguistic PrescriptivismIntroductionThe term prescriptivism refers to the ideology and practices in which the correct and incorrect uses of a languag...
Linguistic Profiling and Language-Based Discrimination
John Baugh
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2021-01-12
Linguistic Profiling and Language-Based DiscriminationIntroductionLinguistic profiling and other forms of linguistic discrimination were first atteste...
Linguistic Relativity
Peggy Li, David Barner
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Linguistic Relativity Introduction Linguistic relativity, sometimes called the Whorfian hypothesis, posits that properties of language affect t...
Literature and Linguistics
Nigel Fabb
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2015-03-10
Literature and LinguisticsIntroductionLiterature is the artistic use of language, also called “verbal art,” to make clear that there are both oral and...
Loanwords
Yoonjung Kang
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Loanwords Introduction When two languages come into contact, words are borrowed from one language to another. Lexical borrowings, or loanwords...
Machine Translation
François Yvon
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Machine Translation Introduction Machine translation (MT) is an interdisciplinary scientific field that brings together linguists, lexicologis...
Mande Languages
Dmitry Idiatov
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2017-01-11
Mande LanguagesIntroductionMande languages are spoken across much of inland West Africa up to the northwest of Nigeria as their eastern limit. The cen...
Markedness
Livio Gaeta
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2017-02-28
MarkednessIntroductionMarkedness is a central concept in the study of linguistics in the 20th and 21st centuries, and it can be traced back to the ear...
Mass-Count Distinction
Alan Bale, David Barner
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Mass-Count Distinction Introduction The mass-count distinction is reflected in the syntax and semantics of nouns, verbs, adjectives, and quanti...
Mathematical Linguistics
Alice G.B. ter Meulen
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Mathematical Linguistics Introduction Mathematical linguistics is a field of scientific linguistic inquiry applying mathematical methods and co...
Mayan Languages
Nora C. England, Roberto Zavala Maldonado
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Mayan LanguagesIntroductionThe Mayan family of languages consists of about thirty extant languages plus at least two (Chicomuceltec and Ch’olti’) that...
Mental Health Disorders, Language in
Dennis Tay
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2019-07-31
Language in Mental Health DisordersIntroductionMental health disorders are conditions that disturb thought, mood, behaviors, or combinations of all th...
Mental Lexicon, The
Niels Schiller
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2021-10-27
The Mental LexiconIntroductionThe term Mental Lexicon, sometimes seen as an online version of a dictionary, is often taken to refer to the part of our...
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