KusoKuso is a term used in East Asia for the internet culture that generally includes all types of camp and parody. In Japanese, kuso (糞,くそ,クソ) is a word that is commonly translated…View analysis →
Mass nounIn linguistics, a mass noun, uncountable noun, non-count noun, uncount noun, or just uncountable, is a noun with the syntactic property that any part and quantity of it is…View analysis →
FrameNetFrameNet is a group of online lexical databases based upon the theory of meaning known as Frame semantics, developed by linguist Charles J. Fillmore. The project's fundamental…View analysis →
TERF (acronym)TERF (/tɜːrf/) is an acronym for trans-exclusionary radical feminist. First recorded in 2008, the term TERF was originally used to distinguish transgender-inclusive feminists…View analysis →
IdeophoneAn ideophone (also known as a mimetic or expressive) is a member of the class of words that depict sensory imagery or sensations, evoking ideas of action, sound, movement, color…View analysis →
PLA DayPLA Day (Chinese: 中国人民解放军建军纪念日), also known as Army Day, is a professional military holiday celebrated annually by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), the military of China, on 1…View analysis →
John ArdenJohn Arden (26 October 1930 – 28 March 2012) was an English playwright who at his death was lauded as "one of the most significant British playwrights of the late 1950s and early…View analysis →
PreverbAlthough not used in general linguistic theory, the term preverb is used in Caucasian (including all three families: Northwest Caucasian, Northeast Caucasian and Kartvelian)…View analysis →
Four tones (Middle Chinese)The four tones of Chinese poetry and dialectology (simplified Chinese: 四声; traditional Chinese: 四聲; pinyin: sìshēng) are four traditional tone classes of Chinese words. They play…View analysis →
Verbal fluency testA verbal fluency test is a kind of psychological test in which a participant is asked to produce as many words as possible from a category in a given time (usually 60 seconds)…View analysis →
ShabdaShabda (Sanskrit: शब्द, IAST: Śabda) is the Sanskrit word for "speech sound". In Sanskrit grammar, the term refers to an utterance in the sense of linguistic performance.View analysis →
Two-step flow of communicationThe two-step flow of communication model says that most people form their opinions under the influence of opinion leaders, who in turn are influenced by the mass media. In…View analysis →
Hate mediaHate media is media that contributes to the demonization and stigmatization of people who belong to different groups. It has played an influential role in the incitement to…View analysis →
Word countThe word count is the number of words in a document or passage of text. Word counting may be needed when a text is required to stay within certain numbers of words. This may…View analysis →
Hypernymy and hyponymyHypernymy and hyponymy are the semantic relations between a generic term (hypernym) and a more specific term (hyponym). The hypernym is also called a supertype, umbrella term, or…View analysis →
Credibility gapCredibility gap is a term that came into wide use with journalism, political and public discourse in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. At the time, it was most…View analysis →
Phi featuresIn linguistics, especially within generative grammar, phi features (denoted with the Greek letter φ 'phi') are the morphological expression of a semantic process in which a word…View analysis →
ZhydThe words zhyd (zhid) and zhydovka (zhidovka/zhydivka/zhidivka) are terms for Jewish man and Jewish woman, respectively, in several Slavic languages. In Russian and Ukrainian…View analysis →
Acholi dialectAcholi (/əˈtʃoʊ.li/ ə-CHOH-li, also Leb Acoli, or Leb Lwo) is a Southern Luo language spoken by the Acholi people in the districts of Gulu, Kitgum, Amuru, Lamwo, Agago, Nwoya…View analysis →
CaparisonA caparison is a cloth covering laid over a horse or other animal for protection and decoration. In modern times, they are used mainly in parades and for historical reenactments…View analysis →
DeterminativeA determinative, also known as a taxogram or semagram, is an ideogram used to mark semantic categories of words in logographic scripts which helps to disambiguate interpretation…View analysis →
Syntactic geminationSyntactic gemination, or syntactic doubling, is an external sandhi phenomenon in Italian, other Romance languages spoken in Italy, and Finnish. It consists in the lengthening…View analysis →
WestwordWestword is a free digital and print media publication based in Denver, Colorado. Westword publishes daily online coverage of local news, restaurants, music and arts, as well as…View analysis →
CTL*CTL* is a superset of computational tree logic (CTL) and linear temporal logic (LTL). It freely combines path quantifiers and temporal operators. Like CTL, CTL* is a…View analysis →
Rice's theoremIn computability theory, Rice's theorem states that all non-trivial semantic properties of programs are undecidable. A semantic property is one about the program's behavior (for…View analysis →
Structured documentA structured document is an electronic document where some method of markup is used to identify the whole and parts of the document as having various meanings beyond their…View analysis →
Suomen KuvalehtiSuomen Kuvalehti (lit. 'Finland's picture magazine' or 'the Finnish picture magazine') is the leading Finnish language news magazine featuring politics and culture. It is…View analysis →
Catalyst (TV program)Catalyst is an Australian science journalism television program broadcast by ABC. As of 2022, it was the program was the only science show on primetime television in Australia…View analysis →
Conversion (word formation)In linguistics, conversion, also called zero derivation or null derivation, is a kind of word formation involving the creation of a word (of a new part of speech) from an…View analysis →
LexemeA lexeme (/ˈlɛksiːm/ ⓘ) is a unit of lexical meaning that underlies a set of words that are related through inflection. It is a basic abstract unit of meaning, a unit of…View analysis →
SciuromorphaSciuromorpha (/sɪˈjuːrəmɔːrfə/ 'squirrel-like') is a rodent suborder that includes several rodent families. It includes all members of the Sciuridae (the squirrel family) as well…View analysis →
ResupinationResupination is derived from the Latin word resupinus, meaning "bent back with the face upward" or "on the back". "Resupination" is the noun form of the adjective "resupine"…View analysis →
Scope (formal semantics)In formal semantics, the scope of a semantic operator is the semantic object to which it applies. For instance, in the sentence "Paulina doesn't drink beer but she does drink…View analysis →
Referential transparencyIn analytic philosophy and computer science, referential transparency and referential opacity are properties of linguistic constructions, and by extension of languages. A…View analysis →
Preposition strandingPreposition stranding or p-stranding is the syntactic construction in which a so-called stranded, hanging, or dangling preposition occurs somewhere other than immediately before…View analysis →
