structural linguistics
21linguistics — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ contemporary, modern ▪ applied, theoretical ▪ cognitive, computational, contrastive, descriptive, g …
22Course in General Linguistics — (Cours de linguistique générale) is an influential book compiled by Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye that is based on notes taken from Ferdinand de Saussure s lectures at the University of Geneva between the years 1906 and 1911. It was… …
23The Copenhagen school (Linguistics) — The Copenhagen School was a centre of structural linguistics founded by Louis Hjelmslev (1899 1965) and Viggo Brøndal (1887 1942). The school was one of the most important centres of structuralism together with the Geneva School and the Prague… …
24Cohesion (linguistics) — Cohesion is the grammatical and lexical relationship within a text or sentence. Cohesion can be defined as the links that hold a text together and give it meaning. It is related to the broader concept of coherence There are two main types of… …
25Corpus linguistics — is the study of language as expressed in samples (corpora) or real world text. This method represents a digestive approach to deriving a set of abstract rules by which a natural language is governed or else relates to another language. Originally …
26Quantitative comparative linguistics — is a branch of comparative linguistics that applies mathematical models to the problem of classifying language relatedness. This includes the use of computational phylogenetics and cladistics to define an optimal tree (or network) to represent a… …
27Drift (linguistics) — There are two types of linguistic drift, a unidirectional short term and cyclic long term drift. Contents 1 Short term unidirectional drift 2 Long term cyclic drift 3 See also …
28Descriptive linguistics — is the work of analyzing and describing how language is spoken (or how it was spoken in the past) by a group of people in a speech community. All scholarly research in linguistics is descriptive; like all other sciences, its aim is to observe the …
29Focus (linguistics) — Focus is a concept in linguistic theory that deals with how information in one phrase relates to information that has come before. Focus has been analyzed in a variety of ways by linguists. Historically, there have been two main approaches to… …
30Logical form (linguistics) — In the field of linguistics, specifically in syntax, logical form (abbreviated LF ), refers to a certain level of mental representation of a linguistic expression, derived from surface structure. LF is the semantic equivalent of phonetic form… …
