linguistics

name: linguistics description: Linguistics fundamentals license: MIT compatibility: opencode metadata: audience: machine-learning-engineers category: artificial-intelligence

What I do

• Apply linguistic principles to NLP
• Understand language structure
• Handle language variation
• Work with multilingual data

When to use me

Use me when:

• Building linguistically-informed systems
• Handling language variation
• Creating multilingual applications

Key Concepts

Language Components

• Phonetics: Sound production and perception
• Phonology: Sound patterns and rules
• Morphology: Word formation
• Syntax: Sentence structure
• Semantics: Meaning
• Pragmatics: Language use in context

Key Linguistic Theories

• Chomsky: Transformational grammar, universal grammar
• Saussure: Signifier/signified, synchronic/diachronic
• Austin/Searle: Speech act theory
• Grice: Conversational implicature
• Halliday: Systemic functional grammar

Language Typology

• Word order (SVO, SOV, VSO...)
• Morphological typology (analytic, synthetic, polysynthetic)
• Case systems
• Gender and number