linguistics, a metalanguage is a language used to describe another language, often called the object language. Expressions in a metalanguage are often distinguished...
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Look up metalanguage in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Metalanguage is a language used to describe another language, in logic and linguistics, as well...
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Natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) is a linguistic theory that reduces lexicons down to a set of semantic primitives. It is based on the conception of...
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Compiler-compiler (section Schorre metalanguages)
written in its own metalanguage or an existing computer programming language. The process of a metacompiler, written in its own metalanguage, compiling itself...
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traditional (first-order) language; in a metalanguage, symbols replace words and phrases. Insofar as one metalanguage is required for one explanation of the...
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Kondo (Metalanguage, 1979) With Friends Like These with Fred Frith (Metalanguage, 1979) Outside Pleasure (Metalanguage, 1980) Aloha (Metalanguage, 1981)...
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Metavariable (redirect from Metalanguage variable)
syntactical variable) is a symbol or symbol string which belongs to a metalanguage and stands for elements of some object language. For instance, in the...
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Anna Wierzbicka (section Natural semantic metalanguage)
and cross-cultural linguistics, especially for the natural semantic metalanguage and the concept of semantic primes. Her research agenda resembles Gottfried...
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Metalogic (section Metalanguage–object language)
language used to make statements about an object language is called a metalanguage. This distinction is a key difference between logic and metalogic. While...
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talking (the metalanguage). In the following, quoted text is use of the object language, while unquoted text is use of the metalanguage; a quoted sentence...
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Metasyntax (category Metalanguages)
a metalanguage, which is used to describe either a natural language or a computer programming language. Some of the widely used formal metalanguages for...
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level of abstraction. In linguistics, grammar is considered to be a metalanguage: a language operating on a higher level to describe properties of the...
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the form of, for example, generalized algebraic data types, or other metalanguage amenities enabling programs to implement extensions to their own implementation...
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language that one uses to talk about a formal system is called a metalanguage. The metalanguage may be a natural language, or it may be partially formalized...
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Sanskrit as a refined and standardized language, making use of a technical metalanguage consisting of a syntax, morphology, and lexicon, organised according...
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Augmented Backus–Naur form (category Metalanguages)
In computer science, augmented Backus–Naur form (ABNF) is a metalanguage based on Backus–Naur form (BNF) but consisting of its own syntax and derivation...
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Backus–Naur form (category Metalanguages)
when John Backus, a programming language designer at IBM, proposed a metalanguage of metalinguistic formulas to define the syntax of the new programming...
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various topics, including scientific linguistics and its concept of metalanguage. Metascience is the use of scientific method to study science itself...
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judgment (or judgement) or assertion is a statement or enunciation in a metalanguage. For example, typical judgments in first-order logic would be that a...
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language; SGML with a DTD is a metalanguage. SGML with an SGML declaration is, perhaps, a meta-metalanguage, since it is a metalanguage whose declaration mechanism...
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DocBook, Open eBook, JATS, and many others, is based on the markup metalanguages SGML and XML. That is, SGML and XML allow designers to specify particular...
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metalanguage includes primitive notions, axioms, and rules absent from the object language, so that there are theorems provable in the metalanguage not...
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sass or .scss file is saved. The indented syntax is a metalanguage. SCSS is a nested metalanguage and a superset of CSS, as valid CSS is valid SCSS with...
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Metalanguage Records was a record label in Berkeley, California, founded in 1978 by Henry Kaiser and Larry Ochs. It showcased Rova as well as many independent...
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originally created for the World Wide Web, took inspiration from the metalanguage SGML, and inspired many other markup languages Keyhole Markup Language...
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formerly known as the ML-Class M1 (disambiguation) MI (disambiguation) Metalanguage (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with...
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COBOL (section Metalanguage)
syntax is usually described with a unique metalanguage using braces, brackets, bars and underlining. The metalanguage was developed for the original COBOL...
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self-modifying code. The ability of a programming language to be its own metalanguage allows reflective programming, and is termed reflection. Reflection is...
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relation – Relationship between an object and a representation of that object Metalanguage – Language used to describe another language Pointer (computer programming) –...
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Intension Language Linguistic relativity Logical form Mental representation Metalanguage Modality (natural language) Presupposition Principle of compositionality...
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