In linguistics, focus (abbreviated FOC) is a grammatical category that conveys which part of the sentence contributes new, non-derivable, or contrastive...

Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning)...

In linguistics, the topic, or theme, of a sentence is what is being talked about, and the comment (rheme or focus) is what is being said about the topic...

ignoring other things Focus (linguistics), the way information in one phrase relates to information that has come before Focus group, a form of qualitative...

In linguistics, intonation is the variation in pitch used to indicate the speaker's attitudes and emotions, to highlight or focus an expression, to signal...

as a response to the narrowing of focus in linguistics with the advent in the late 1950s of generative linguistics, and has always maintained a socially-accountable...

Historical linguistics, also known as diachronic linguistics, is the scientific study of how languages change over time. It seeks to understand the nature...

largely focused on ethnography, American anthropology began to integrate linguistics and other disciplines. Anthropological linguistics initially focused largely...

focus from empiricism to mentalism in psychology under the new concepts of cognitive psychology and cognitive science. Chomsky considered linguistics...

guide to linguistics: Linguistics is the scientific study of language. Someone who engages in this study is called a linguist. Linguistics can be theoretical...

Structural linguistics, or structuralism, in linguistics, denotes schools or theories in which language is conceived as a self-contained, self-regulating...

print run day Flag of convenience (business) Flag of convenience Focus (linguistics) Forward of center (or front of center), a measure of the weight bias...

In linguistics, prosody (/ˈprɒsədi, ˈprɒz-/) is the study of elements of speech that are not individual phonetic segments (vowels and consonants) but...

metaphor borrowed from biology, with the tree model used in historical linguistics analogous to a family tree, or to phylogenetic trees of taxa used in...

Functional linguistics is an approach to the study of language characterized by taking systematically into account the speaker's and the hearer's side...

Theoretical linguistics is a term in linguistics that, like the related term general linguistics, can be understood in different ways. Both can be taken...

In the study of language, description or descriptive linguistics is the work of objectively analyzing and describing how language is actually used (or...

which evolves over the history of a language. The basic fields of linguistics broadly focus on language structure at different "scales". Morphology is considered...

The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) is a scientific and professional organization for people working on natural language processing. Its...

interaction. The approach focuses on temporality, activity implication and embodiment in interaction. Interactional linguistics asks research questions...

"The Origins of the Voice/Focus System in Austronesian". Presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS42). Himmelmann...

Corpus linguistics is an empirical method for the study of language by way of a text corpus (plural corpora). Corpora are balanced, often stratified collections...

"type"+"writ"+"er", and "can"+"not"). Since the beginning of the study of linguistics, numerous attempts at defining what a word is have been made, with many...

Comparative linguistics is a branch of historical linguistics that is concerned with comparing languages to establish their historical relatedness. Genetic...

can consist of a single word or a complete sentence. In theoretical linguistics, phrases are often analyzed as units of syntactic structure such as a...

In linguistics, an object is any of several types of arguments. In subject-prominent, nominative-accusative languages such as English, a transitive verb...

Linguistics is the scientific study of language, involving analysis of language form, language meaning, and language in context. Language use was first...

SIL Global (formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics International) is an evangelical Christian nonprofit organization whose main purpose...

clinical linguistics journals still focus only on English linguistics, there is an emerging movement toward comparative clinical linguistics across multiple...

Course in General Linguistics (French: Cours de linguistique générale) is a book compiled by Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye from notes on lectures...