Onomasiology was initiated already in the late 19th century, but it didn’t receive its name until 1902, when the Austrian linguist Adolf Zauner published his study on the body-part terminology in Rom ...
In formal languages like mathematics, a "stipulative" definition guides a specific discussion. A stipulative definition can only be disproved by showing a logical contradiction. A stipulative definiti ...
Semasiology (from Greek: σημασ?α (semasia) "signification, meaning" σημα?νω (semaino) "indicate, signify") is a discipline within linguistics concerned with the question "what does the w ...
The discipline of terminology consists primarily of the following aspects:analyzing the concepts and concept structures used in a field or domain of activityidentifying the terms assigned to the conce ...
The word "lexicology" derives from the Greek λεξικ?ν lexicon, neut. of λεξικ?? lexikos, "of or for words", from λ?ξι? lexis, "speech", "word" (in turn from λ?γω lego "to say", ...
A specialized dictionary is a dictionary that covers a relatively restricted set of phenomena. The definitive book on the subject (Cowie 2009) includes chapters on (among others) dictionaries of:synon ...
Coined in English 1680, the word "lexicography" derives from the Greek λεξικογρ?φο? (lexikographos), "lexicographer", from λεξικ?ν (lexicon), neut. of λεξικ?? (lexikos), "of ...
Influence and work Sandro Nielsen is an authority on legal lexicography and bilingual law dictionaries and has proposed a fundamentally sound general theory of bilingual legal lexicography, which is d ...
Items in the lexicon are called lexemes or word forms. Lexemes are not atomic elements but contain both phonological and morphological components. When describing the lexicon a reductionist approach i ...
Linguistic terminology Syllables are counted as units of sound (phones) that they use in their language. The branch of linguistics which studies these units of sound is phonetics. Phones which play th ...
Phonetics was studied as early as the 4th century BC in the Indian subcontinent, with Pā?ini's account of the place and manner of articulation of consonants in his treatise on Sanskrit. The major In ...
Etymologists apply a number of methods to study the origins of words, some of which are:Philological research. Changes in the form and meaning of the word can be traced with the aid of older texts, if ...
In formal languages like mathematics, a "stipulative" definition guides a specific discussion. A stipulative definition can only be disproved by showing a logical contradiction. A stipulative definiti ...
Further information: Character (symbol) and LogogramThe term "ideogram" is commonly used to describe logograms in writing systems such as Egyptian hieroglyphs, Sumerian cuneiform and Chinese character ...
A dictionary is a list of words and their meanings. Dictionary may also refer to:Biographical dictionaryEncyclopedic dictionary, sometimes titled Dictionary of... for exampleSoftware Data dictionary, ...
