In linguistics, an argument is an expression that helps complete the meaning of a predicate, the latter referring in this context to a main verb and its...
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poem or other work Argument (linguistics), a phrase that appears in a syntactic relationship with the verb in a clause Oral argument in the United States...
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understood as arguments. The argument concept is tied to the predicate concept in a way that the complement concept is not. In linguistics, an adjunct is...
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phrases, take arguments (see argument (linguistics)). Broadly, arguments can be divided into two types: internal or external. Internal arguments are those...
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In linguistics, valency or valence is the number and type of arguments and complements controlled by a predicate, content verbs being typical predicates...
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Poverty of the stimulus (redirect from Argument from poverty of the stimulus)
In linguistics, Poverty of the stimulus (POS) arguments are arguments that children are not exposed to rich enough data within their linguistic environments...
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Logic (redirect from Science of correct argument)
science, and linguistics. Logic studies arguments, which consist of a set of premises that leads to a conclusion. An example is the argument from the premises...
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Discourse analysis (redirect from Discourse (linguistics))
invented examples. Text linguistics is a closely related field. The essential difference between discourse analysis and text linguistics is that discourse analysis...
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Generative grammar (redirect from Generative linguistics)
Generative grammar is a research tradition in linguistics that aims to explain the cognitive basis of language by formulating and testing explicit models...
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Object (grammar) (redirect from Object (linguistics))
In linguistics, an object is any of several types of arguments. In subject-prominent, nominative-accusative languages such as English, a transitive verb...
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ambiguity in meaning. Interpretive argumentation is pertinent to the humanities, hermeneutics, literary theory, linguistics, semantics, pragmatics, semiotics...
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linguistics. Models and theoretical accounts of cognitive linguistics are considered as psychologically real, and research in cognitive linguistics aims...
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Autonomy of syntax (redirect from Autonomist linguistics)
In linguistics, the autonomy of syntax is the assumption that syntax is arbitrary and self-contained with respect to meaning, semantics, pragmatics, discourse...
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Subject (grammar) (redirect from Subject (linguistics))
the subject is the most prominent overt argument of the predicate. By this position all languages with arguments have subjects, though there is no way to...
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Linguistics is the scientific study of language, involving analysis of language form, language meaning, and language in context. Language use was first...
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Subcategorization (redirect from Subcategorization (linguistics))
In linguistics, subcategorization denotes the ability/necessity for lexical items (usually verbs) to require/allow the presence and types of the syntactic...
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An argument map or argument diagram is a visual representation of the structure of an argument. An argument map typically includes all the key components...
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the mid-1950s, whereupon it became the dominant syntactic theory in linguistics for two decades. "Transformations" refers to syntactic relationships...
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contain a semantic type but no argument structure, neither semantic type nor argument structure, or both semantic type and argument structure. In support of...
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Adjunct (grammar) (redirect from Adjunct (linguistics))
In linguistics, an adjunct is an optional, or structurally dispensable, part of a sentence, clause, or phrase that, if removed or discarded, will not...
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mathematics, and computer science, arity (/ˈærɪti/ ) is the number of arguments or operands taken by a function, operation or relation. In mathematics...
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Philology (category Historical linguistics)
intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics with strong ties to etymology. Philology is also defined as the study...
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Active–stative alignment (section Argument marking)
semantic alignment) is a type of morphosyntactic alignment in which the sole argument ("subject") of an intransitive clause (often symbolized as S) is sometimes...
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Morphosyntactic alignment (section Arguments)
In linguistics, morphosyntactic alignment is the grammatical relationship between arguments—specifically, between the two arguments (in English, subject...
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Syntax (redirect from Syntax (linguistics))
In linguistics, syntax (/ˈsɪntæks/ SIN-taks) is the study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences. Central...
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Philosophy of language (redirect from History of the philosophy of linguistics)
influence has been mostly limited to computational linguistics, with little impact on general linguistics. The incompatibility with genetics and neuropsychology...
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Course in General Linguistics (French: Cours de linguistique générale) is a book compiled by Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye from notes on lectures...
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Political linguistics is the study of the relations between language and politics. It argues that language gives origin to the state. The reason is that...
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Natural language processing (category Computational linguistics)
information retrieval, knowledge representation and computational linguistics, a subfield of linguistics. Typically data is collected in text corpora, using either...
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portal What is I-language? - Chapter 1 of I-language: An Introduction to Linguistics as Cognitive Science. Stanford Encyclopedia entry for the argument...
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