| NOUN | a metalanguage | metalanguages |
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- In her 1972 book "Semantic Primitives", she launched a theory of natural semantic metalanguage, a theory of language and meaning.
- A language that is used to describe other languages is a metalanguage.
- Parser generators typically deal with three languages: the language a generator is implemented in, the language a generated parser is implemented in and of course the metalanguage that describes whatever a generated parser should parse.
- Janan Izadi believes that Hikmat Muta’aliyah is of a metalanguage according to Mehdi Haeri Yazdi.
- To formulate linguistic theories without semantic paradoxes such as the liar paradox, it is generally necessary to distinguish the language that one is talking about (the "object language") from the language that one is using to do the talking (the "metalanguage").
- A corollary is that any metalanguage capable of expressing the semantics of some object language must have expressive power exceeding that of the object language.
- There are several entities commonly expressed in a metalanguage.
- Any language that one uses to talk about a formal system is called a "metalanguage".
- The language used to make statements about an object language is called a "metalanguage".
- Nominal term embeddings may be seen as alternatives to de Bruijn encodings and higher-order abstract syntax, where the latter uses the simply typed lambda calculus as a metalanguage.
- Typically, the metalanguage for token-level languages (formally called "regular languages") does not have nonterminals because nesting is not an issue in these regular languages.
- In 1975, Frits Staal related the term to the metalanguage concept that is found in logic both in Western and Indian traditions.
- Ontology Grounded Metalanguage (OGML) is a metalanguage like MOF.
- This usage was considered nonsense by Ludwig Wittgenstein, who rejected the analogy between metalanguage and a metaphilosophy.
- To describe this, Adamczewski has coined the expression ‘natural metalanguage’; a natural metalanguage is a means of uncovering ‘the deep grammar’ of a natural language (1995: 35).
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