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• Threshold node
  ...incoming lines are active. Conceptual structures evidently make extensive use of threshold nodes with multiple connecting lines. ...p://books.google.com/books/about/Language_and_Reality.html?id=vrlPUxB2_JwC Language and Reality: Selected Writings of Sydney Lamb].'' London: Continuum.
  2 KB (243 words) - 06:38, 8 October 2017
• Multilingualism
  ...to the fact that there are only few countries where more than one official language is spoken. Not even a quarter of the world’s nations recognize two offici ...nce, but many of them, e.g. the African Union, use English as the official language, or one among their official languages.
  18 KB (2,684 words) - 16:51, 22 May 2013
• Register (discourse)
  ...one or two social varieties of language (standard and dialect), while they use a “wide range of registers” (Barnickel 1982, 13; Biber 2000, 135; Halli ...et. al. 1964, 87), which means that there is a close relationship between language and context of situation. Most linguists agree with this definition. Howeve
  16 KB (2,262 words) - 16:59, 22 May 2013
• Japanese
  ...ge being mainly spoken on the Japanese archipelago. It is an agglutinative language. |Language =Japanese
  11 KB (1,473 words) - 08:06, 23 May 2014
• S-selection
  * Chomsky, N. 1986a. ''Knowledge of language: its nature, origin and use,'' Praeger, New York.
  2 KB (234 words) - 15:15, 5 October 2014
• Tensed-S Condition
  * Chomsky, N. 1986a. ''Knowledge of language: its nature, origin and use,'' Praeger, New York.
  2 KB (253 words) - 07:34, 17 August 2014
• Theta Criterion
  * Chomsky, N. 1986a. ''Knowledge of language: its nature, origin and use,'' Praeger, New York.
  2 KB (282 words) - 09:34, 17 August 2014
• Complement
  In English-language linguistics the term ''complement'' in this sense is common only as part of ...complements and optional [[adjunct]]s. This meaning is standard in Russian-language linguistics.)
  4 KB (621 words) - 13:20, 14 June 2009
• Converb
  ...he English equivalent of deepricastie (cf. Nedjalkov 1990), but in English-language Slavic linguistic, converb is never used to render deepricastie. Also, some ...edjalkov & Nedjalkov (1987) first adopted the term for general typological use, followed by Haspelmath & König (1995).
  4 KB (534 words) - 23:17, 7 August 2009
• Quantifier Raising
  Pesetsky (1985) extends the use of QR to morphological structures, and argues that QR can be used to solve * Huang, James 1982. ''Move wh in a language without wh-movement,'' [[Linguistic review]], 369-416
  2 KB (348 words) - 08:01, 28 September 2014
• Maxim of manner
  ...One kind consists in making unambiguous use of syntax and phonology of the language in order to construct a clear text. Another type [...] consists in framing ...oks.Google.de Horn - Maxim of Manner. Semantics and Pragmatics: Meaning in Language and Discourse. 29 Sept 2009]
  5 KB (819 words) - 12:34, 13 July 2014
• T-model
  * Chomsky, N. 1986a. ''Knowledge of language: its nature, origin and use,'' Praeger, New York.
  2 KB (303 words) - 07:06, 17 August 2014
• Aims and methods of quantitative linguistics
  ...difference lies rather in the ontological points of view (do we consider a language as a set of sentences with their structures assigned to them, or do we see ...es. There is, however, an immense number of of properties and processes in language which can be detected and analysed only with quantitative methods on the ba
  9 KB (1,442 words) - 10:11, 14 June 2014
• X-bar theory
  '''X-bar theory''' is a [[generative linguistics|generative]] theory of language conceived by [[Noam A. Chomsky]]. It is a theory about the internal structu * Chomsky, N. 1986a. ''Knowledge of language: its nature, origin and use,'' Praeger, New York.
  5 KB (726 words) - 18:48, 7 September 2014
• Argument
  * Chomsky, N. 1986a. ''Knowledge of language: its nature, origin and use,'' Praeger, New York.
  3 KB (409 words) - 17:35, 18 June 2014
• Irony
  In specific cases, speakers may use verbal irony for reasons of politeness. These uses are in accordance with t ...e misunderstood or even missed and is hence difficult to convey in written language.
  13 KB (1,992 words) - 20:32, 4 July 2014
• Focal Colors
  ...represents the best example of this category. Even speakers from different language communities recognize these focal colors to be the perceptually salient and ...istinguish between certain colors. Moreover, color terms are part of every language in the world, but they all categorize them differently. Therefore, color te
  14 KB (2,063 words) - 14:53, 20 May 2013
• Ambiguity, Polysemy and Vagueness
  ...s why a single expression may lead to multiple interpretations. In natural language many words, strings of words and sentences are ambiguous, simply because of ...reek ‘ballizar’ (meaning ‘to dance’) and was first attested in the English language in the 1630s being introduced through Old French. (Online Etymological Dict
  12 KB (1,883 words) - 16:39, 15 June 2014
• Habitual aspect
  * Crystal, David. 1987. ''The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language.'' Cambridge, England: Cambridge University. 422. ISBN 0-521-26438-3 * '''Declerck, Renaat. 1991. ''Tense in English: Its Structure and Use in Discourse.'' ''' London: Routledge. 277-284. ISBN 0-415-06151-2 [http://
  5 KB (728 words) - 21:32, 5 June 2010
• Salwaa/Draft
  ...xical items tend to simultaneously appear together in the natural use of a language. It refers to a set of words that are frequently paired or combined togethe
  4 KB (610 words) - 06:33, 6 June 2024

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