Representation theory (RT) is a theoretical linguistic framework in the generative tradition, created and developed by Edwin S. Williams – chiefly in...
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ways to describe knowledge Representation theory (linguistics), a theoretical framework in generative linguistics Representation (mathematics), a very general...
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In formal linguistics, discourse representation theory (DRT) is a framework for exploring meaning under a formal semantics approach. One of the main differences...
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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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Linguistics is the scientific study of language. Linguistics is based on a theoretical as well as a descriptive study of language and is also interlinked...
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are therefore important in computational linguistics. Still, other methods in phonology (e.g. optimality theory, which uses lattice graphs) and morphology...
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A symbolic linguistic representation is a representation of an utterance that uses symbols to represent linguistic information about the utterance, such...
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Theory of language is a topic in philosophy of language and theoretical linguistics. It has the goal of answering the questions "What is language?"; "Why...
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Structural linguistics, or structuralism, in linguistics, denotes schools or theories in which language is conceived as a self-contained, self-regulating...
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Wave model (redirect from Wave model (linguistics))
In historical linguistics, the wave model or wave theory (German: Wellentheorie) is a model of language change in which a new language feature (innovation)...
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Transformational grammar (redirect from Transformational linguistics)
In linguistics, transformational grammar (TG) or transformational-generative grammar (TGG) is part of the theory of generative grammar, especially of...
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Formalism (linguistics) – the theory of language as a formal system with mathematical-logical rules and a formal grammar Functional linguistics – language...
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Systemic functional linguistics (SFL) is an approach to linguistics, among functional linguistics, that considers language as a social semiotic system...
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Phonology (redirect from Sound system (linguistics))
Phonology is the branch of linguistics that studies how languages systematically organize their phones or, for sign languages, their constituent parts...
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Transcription in the linguistic sense is the systematic representation of spoken language in written form. The source can either be utterances (speech...
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the term representation theory is well established in the algebraic sense discussed above, there are many other uses of the term representation throughout...
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Prototype theory is a theory of categorization in cognitive science, particularly in psychology and cognitive linguistics, in which there is a graded...
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Discourse analysis (redirect from Discourse (linguistics))
Shipibo, another language of Eastern Peru. He taught the theory at the Summer Institute of Linguistics in Norman, Oklahoma, in the summers of 1956 and 1957...
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spawned a different linguistic paradigm, known as cognitive linguistics, a linguistic theory that correlates learning of languages to other cognitive abilities...
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Ferdinand de Saussure (category Philosophers of linguistics)
linguistic theory in the first half of the 20th century with his notions becoming incorporated in the central tenets of structural linguistics. His main...
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Philosophy of language (redirect from History of the philosophy of linguistics)
Husserl's treatise was, however, rejected in general linguistics. Instead, linguists opted for Chomsky's theory of universal grammar as an innate biological structure...
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In linguistics, morphology (mor-FOL-ə-jee) is the study of words, including the principles by which they are formed, and how they relate to one another...
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relatedness, grouping them into language families (comparative linguistics) to develop general theories about how and why language changes to describe the history...
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Natural language processing (category Computational linguistics)
related to information retrieval, knowledge representation and computational linguistics, a subfield of linguistics. Typically data is collected in text corpora...
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In linguistics and grammar, a sentence is a linguistic expression, such as the English example "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." In traditional...
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Ethnolinguistics (redirect from Cultural linguistics)
Ethnolinguistics (sometimes called cultural linguistics) is an area of anthropological linguistics that studies the relationship between a language or...
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Concept (section Theory-theory)
philosophical understanding of concepts. In a physicalist theory of mind, a concept is a mental representation, which the brain uses to denote a class of things...
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linguistics is being formed in the process of the differentiation of linguistics as a general theory of language, and is a sub-field of linguistics similar...
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Semantics (redirect from Meaning (linguistics))
semantics are linguistics, semiotics, and philosophy. Besides its meaning as a field of inquiry, semantics can also refer to theories within this field...
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Conceptual semantics (category Generative linguistics)
general, have taken on increasing importance in linguistics and psycholinguistics. Many contemporary theories of syntax (how sentences are constructed from...
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