Linguistics - Oxford Bibliographies
Colonial Place Names
Thomas Stolz, Ingo H. Warnke, Jascha de Bloom
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2020-07-29
Colonial Place NamesIntroductionColonial place names (= CPNs) constitute a specific category of toponyms, namely the class of place names which are at...
Comparative Reconstruction in Linguistics
Martine Robbeets
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2018-03-28
Comparative Reconstruction in LinguisticsIntroductionLinguistic reconstruction is a procedure for inferring an unattested ancestral state of a languag...
Comparative-Historical Linguistics
Joseph Salmons
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Comparative-Historical LinguisticsIntroductionHistorical linguistics is about how and why language changes over time. Comparative linguistics, in the ...
Complementation
Michel Achard
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2019-03-27
ComplementationIntroductionIn its more general sense, a complement is an argument of a predicate, and generally opposed to an adjunct, a non-argument ...
Complexity, Linguistic
Bernd Kortmann, Verena Schröter
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2020-01-15
Linguistic ComplexityIntroductionLinguistic complexity (or: language complexity, complexity in language) is a multifaceted and multidimensional resear...
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. ...
Computational Linguistics
Robert Dale
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Computational Linguistics Introduction Computational linguistics (CL) is an interdisciplinary mix of computer science and linguistics with addi...
Conditionals
Ana Arregui
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2015-03-10
Conditionals Introduction Over the years, conditionals have proven a lively domain of research in disciplines such as linguistics, philosophy,...
Conjunctions
Caterina Mauri
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2017-08-23
ConjunctionsIntroductionConjunctions are linguistic elements that link two or more words, phrases, clauses, or sentences within a larger unit, in such...
Connectionism
Ping Li, Xiaowei Zhao
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
ConnectionismIntroductionConnectionism, also known as parallel distributed processing (PDP) or artificial neural networks, and most recently reenginee...
Consonant Epenthesis
Rebecca Morley
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2017-04-27
Consonant EpenthesisIntroductionUse of the term epenthesis implies an input-output mapping relationship in which the output contains more segmental ma...
Contrastive Analysis in Linguistics
Christian Mair
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2018-02-22
Contrastive Analysis in LinguisticsIntroductionIn its core sense, contrastive linguistics can be defined as the theoretically grounded, systematic and...
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...
Conversational Implicature
Darcy Sperlich
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2015-10-26
Conversational Implicature Introduction The theory of conversational implicature originates from Gricean pragmatics, involving concepts of the...
Cooperative Principle
Laurence Horn
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2014-06-30
Cooperative Principle Introduction The basis of Gricean pragmatics is the cooperative principle (CP): “Make your conversational contribution s...
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 ...
Copula
Barbara Citko
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2014-07-30
Copula Introduction Copulas and copular clauses are interesting for a variety of reasons: morphological, syntactic, semantic, historical, prag...
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...
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