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	Metalanguage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Metalanguage in linguistics is language used to make statements about language (the object language).
		Thus the term 'red' in the phrase 'red barn' is part of the embedded metalanguage of English and the term 'barn' is part of the object language.
		An example of an ordered metalanguage would be the construction of one metalanguage to talk about an object language, then creating another metalanguage to talk about the first metalanguage, and so on for as long as is necessary.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Metalanguage (735 words)

	Four Concepts in Programming Language Description: Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics and Metalanguage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Metalanguage, in general, refers to the language in which a subject language is being described.
		Similarly, there are formal metalanguages for describing the semantics of programming languages, particularly associated with the approaches of axiomatic semantics and denotational semantics.
		In particular, one should expect that metalanguages each have their own syntax, semantics and pragmatics, which in turn must be described by a metametalanguage.
	www.cs.sfu.ca /~cameron/Teaching/383/syn-sem-prag-meta.html (504 words)

	M[UMPS] metalanguage terminology -E-
		This metalanguage symbol represents the name of a variable (global or local) that is to be used for the purpose of passing call-back information in the context of event-handling.
		The value represented by this metalanguage symbol is the "error string", a string that is used to indicate that the specified number cannot be formatted using the specified format mask.
		This metalanguage symbol represents a reference to an extrinsic variable, an extrinsic function or a subroutine that is not necessarily part of the current M[UMPS] environment.
	www.jacquardsystems.com /Examples/meta/e.htm (2135 words)

	Management Metalanguage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Management Metalanguage defines the communication between a driver instance and the MA and is used for the management channel (sometimes abbreviated "mgmt channel"), which is a channel that is always present between the MA and the driver's primary region.
		Asynchronous event indication in the Management Metalanguage is handled by posting a request to the driver; that is, the MA sends a request to the driver asking for future event notification, and the driver holds on to the control block indefinitely, sending a reply only when the (first such) asynchronous event occurs.
		There is no channel_event_ind_op in the Management Metalanguage ops vector, since the MA will never close the management channel while the driver instance exists, no constraints will be propagated across the management channel, and the MA will never be terminated.
	ou800doc.sco.com /en/UDI_spec/m_mgmt.html (9662 words)

	Metalanguage
		Creation of a metalanguage is a metasystem transition (MST), in which we ignore the controlling subsystem by abstraction.
		An example: algebraic notation is a metalanguage L' with respect to the language L of arithmetic.
		This part, though, does not enter the meaning of the terms `metalanguage' and `metatheory': it may be absent.
	pespmc1.vub.ac.be /METALARE.html (603 words)

	Metalanguage for OCaml Syntax (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The symbols in the metalanguage, both terminal symbols and nonterminal symbols, are simply contiguous sequences of non-blank characters.
		In addition, most grammars expressed in the metalanguage will follow a convention to indicate which symbols are non-terminal symbols; here that convention is that non-terminal symbols start with a capital letter.
		Clearly, the metalanguage grammar given here is intended to be suggestive of a numeric value in a particular character set (ASCII), but any single Lexeme indicator may be used, with an interpretation to be supplied externally.
	scotty.usc.edu /_DTW_/ocaml/metalanguage.html (926 words)

	Network Interface Metalanguage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The UDI Network Interface Metalanguage was developed to represent a universal set of connectionless network-related functions that provide all of the needed functionality in an OS, protocol, and transport independent manner.
		The UDI Network Interface Metalanguage environment may be implemented in one of two possible configurations as shown in Figure 3-1: either UDI protocol support or a mapper to native OS protocol stacks.
		The UDI Network Interface Metalanguage can be implemented as an addition to or as a replacement for any existing network adapter interface, so the examples shown here should not be interpreted as the only possible implementation of this metalanguage.
	osr600doc.sco.com /en/UDI_spec/m_net.html (11345 words)

	Metalanguage-to-Environment Interface (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Metalanguage stubs are the pieces of code that implement metalanguage channel operations.
		In order to be a valid candidate, the metalanguage and all enumeration attribute values specified in the "device" declaration must match the values for the enumerated device instance (though there may be additional enumerated attributes besidesthose specified in the "device" line).
		The metalanguage library is not required to check for invalid parameters or other illegal conditions, and should normally not check for invalid parameter values that would (per the metalanguage definition) be expected to be checked in the target driver.
	ou800doc.caldera.com /en/UDI_spec/ms_mei.html (3522 words)

	Learning Pragmatics from ESL & EFL Textbooks: How Likely? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Instruction metalanguage refers to language that gives usage or topical information about a particular form, i.e., information about a grammatical form that does not involve linguistic description of that form: "Small talk is informal conversation with friends and acquaintances at school, on the job, or on social occasions" (Passages, 1998, p.
		Introduction metalanguage describes any element that seemed to prepare students for some activity by focusing their attention on a particular topic or theme: "When you are sick, do you go to a doctor?" (Voyages 2, 1999, p.
		The effect of metalanguage as learner input cannot be fully determined; however, textbook metalanguage serves as a poor model for pragmatically appropriate speech act realization.
	www-writing.berkeley.edu /TESL-EJ/ej30/a3.html (6797 words)

	Clothing Meaning in Syntax: Aspects and Applications of Multilingual Generation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		These are generated using the VINCI system, which is a set of linguist- friendly metalanguages for representing the semantics, syntax, lexicon and morphology of a language, together with a set of interpreters for generating output from these metalanguages.
		A more abstract solution consists in defining a non-ambiguous metalanguage which is lexically similar to one of the target languages, but which at the same time is prior to and separate from questions of syntax.
		At the same time, we would prefer that the metalanguage not be forced to deal with such questions, or rather that it allow the user to choose the order of terms which is normal for him or her, without this affecting the final output.
	www.ach.org /abstracts/1997/p052.html (2465 words)

	Generic I/O Metalanguage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Generic I/O Metalanguage can also be used as an internal metalanguage between a multi-region driver's primary and secondary regions or between secondary regions.
		There are two roles to the Generic I/O Metalanguage: the "client" and the "provider." When this metalanguage is used between drivers, the client is always a child of the provider.
		There are two ops vector types in the Generic I/O Metalanguage: one that a GIO provider uses on its end of a GIO channel (udi_gio_provider_ops_t) and one that a GIO client uses on its end of a GIO channel (udi_gio_client_ops_t).
	uw713doc.sco.com /en/UDI_spec/m_generic.html (4343 words)

	30-Metalanguage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Metalanguage is the language used for the analysis of object language.
		Thus, a metalanguage may be thought of as a language about another language.
		A metatext is a text in metalanguage about a text in object language.
	mfj-online.org /journalPages/MFJ34/30Metalanguage.html (76 words)

	M[UMPS] metalanguage terminology -G-
		This metalanguage symbol represents a number that is bounded by constraints within the GKS standard.This entity can be the numeric interpretation of any expression.
		This metalanguage symbol represents an expression; the value of this expression is not restricted to be anything specific.
		This entity may be a regular local variable name (see metalanguage symbol rlvn, a regular global variable name (see metalanguage symbol rgvn) or an expritem).
	www.jacquardsystems.com /Examples/meta/g.htm (1042 words)

	UDI Core Specification 1.01 - Introduction to MEI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Each metalanguage definition must specify the relevant interface name(s) (i.e., the parameter on the "requires" and "provides" and "meta" property declarations), and the definition of the interface version number for this version of this metalanguage.
		Many metalanguages also specify minimum requirements for driver's use of "custom" parameters, by defining a set of private instance attributes each driver must support.
		Each metalanguage should include a state diagram which indicates the valid set of state transitions for a driver implementing that metalanguage, as well as the valid set of operations for each state.
	docsrv.sco.com /UDI_spec/core_spec-28.html (652 words)

	Peter Suber, "Sample Formal System S"
		The metalanguage to describe S will be English supplemented with the standard symbols for truth-functional propositional logic and predicate logic.
		In addition, A, B, and C will be metalanguage variables that range over wffs of the formal language of S. I will put quotation marks around symbols and wffs only when necessary to prevent ambiguity.
		Note that the metatheorems are stated in the metalanguage, not in the formal language, and are proved with metatheoretic reasoning, not necessarily with the forms of reasoning represented by the system's rules of inference.
	www.earlham.edu /~peters/courses/logsys/sys-xmpl.htm (2131 words)

	ISO/IEC 14977:1996(E). Information technology -Syntactic metalanguage -Extended BNF
		As a result syntactic metalanguages are still not widely used and understood, and the advantages of rigorous notations are unappreciated by many people.
		A syntactic metalanguage is a notation for defining the syntax of a language by use of a number of rules.
		Secondly, a meta-identifier can never be followed immediately by a left parenthesis in the standard metalanguage; thus another method of extending the metalanguage is to define the syntax and meaning of a meta-identifier followed by a sequence of parameters enclosed in parentheses.
	linux.nist.fss.ru /hr/doc/mstd/iso/14977-96.htm (5815 words)

	SCSI Metalanguage Interfaces (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The SCSI Metalanguage operations are grouped into two roles: one for operations called by a PD to send an operation to the HD, and one for operations that are sent from the HD to the PD. Each role has a single channel ops vector.
		The SCSI Metalanguage contains four types of control blocks for inter-driver communication: a bind control block for SCSI bind and unbind operations, an io control block for normal I/O requests on the SCSI interconnect, a ctl control block for control functions, and an event control block for asynchronous event notification and acknowledgment.
		There are two ops vector types in the SCSI Metalanguage: one that a PD uses on its end of a SCSI channel (udi_scsi_pd_ops_t) and one that an HD uses on its end of a SCSI channel (udi_scsi_hd_ops_t).
	ou800doc.sco.com /en/UDI_spec/m_scsi.html (5832 words)

	MetaLang.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Metalanguage Records Metalanguage; from the Greek "meta" meaning after, and the familiar Gallic "language," or speech.
		Language fails to describe the subtleties and complexities of most Metalanguage records; each successive release leaves listeners and critics gasping and grasping for ever more outre expressions of praise and astonishment.
		Metalanguage has also formed an alliance with pianist Greg Goodman's Beak Doctor label; that has produced three albums of Goodman's piano solo, an Evan Parker/Goodman collaboration, and an absolutely stunning recording of an Evan Parker solo recital, At the Finger Palace.
	www.o-art.org /history/Improv/MetaLang.html (269 words)

	Amazon.com: Metalanguage: Social and Ideological Perspectives (Language, Power, and Social Process): Books: Adam ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Metalanguage brings together new, original contributions on people's knowledge about language and representations of language, e.g., representations of dialects, styles, utterances, stances and goals in relation to sociolinguistic theory, sociolinguistic accounts of language variation, and accounts of linguistic usage.
		The book follows from and complements a great tradition of the study of metalanguage, reflexivity, and metapragmatics, and offers a new, integrating perspective from various fields of sociolinguistics: perceptual dialectology, variationism, pragmatics, critical discourse analysis, and social semiotics.
		The starting point for all studies of metalanguage is the familiar observation that language is a unique communicative system in that it can be used to describe and represent itself.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/3110178788?v=glance (738 words)

	Tarski's Truth Definitions
		The main purpose of the metalanguage was to formalise what was being said about the object language, and so Tarski also required that the metalanguage should carry with it a set of axioms expressing everything that one needs to assume for purposes of defining and justifying the truth definition.
		Tarski assumed, in the manner of his time, that the object language L and the metalanguage M would be languages of some kind of higher order logic.
		One sometimes says that Tarski's definition of satisfaction is compositional, meaning that the class of assignments which satisfy a compound formula F is determined solely by (1) the syntactic rule used to construct F from its immediate constituents and (2) the classes of assignments that satisfy these immediate constituents.
	www.seop.leeds.ac.uk /archives/win2004/entries/tarski-truth (4239 words)

	Bus bridge metalanguage entry points (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Bus Bridge metalanguage allows a device driver to communicate with the driver for its parent bus bridge.
		The specifics of the driver-side functions are discussed in the section ``Channel operations''.
		The Bus Bridge environment service calls are described in detail in the Bus Bridge Metalanguage section of the UDI Physical I/O Specification.
	ou800doc.caldera.com /en/UDI_dwg/dwg_bus.html (603 words)

	lmn metalanguage frontend
		This is the source text of the lmn metalanguage compiler, and is therefore the definitive statement of what the metalanguage looks like.
		The metalanguage compiler consists of a frontend and a number of different backends.
		Here the start rule declares a default grammar variable G and a default priority variable P. The convention for the metalanguage compiler is that the backend drives the recognition of outer, and that it does this by wrapping any mechanism it needs round the symbol units.
	languagemachine.sourceforge.net /lmn2xfe.html (3708 words)

	A Linear Metalanguage for Concurrency (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A metalanguage for concurrent process languages is introduced.
		Within it a range of process languages can be defined, including higher-order process languages where processes are passed and received as arguments.
		The other interpretation, obtained by direct analogy with the nondeterministic domains, is in a category of presheaf categories; the nondeterministic branching behaviour of a process is captured in its denotation as a presheaf.
	www.brics.dk /RS/98/31 (162 words)

	Language Log: The inner necessity of phonetic metalanguage
		From an exchange on Slate between Jeffrey Goldberg and Leon Wieseltier about Wieseltier's guest spot as "Stewart Silverman" on The Sopranos, another argument for elementary education in linguistics.
		Even highly-educated Americans have no metalanguage for talking about the sounds of English, except for ambiguous and inconsistent references to the ambiguous and inconsistent orthography.
		I should say that I have not seen the Sopranos episode in question, and so it remains possible that Wieseltier actually enunciated a voiced velar stop [g] at the end of the cited word, as a sort of spelling-pronunciation hypercorrection.
	itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/000705.html (440 words)

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		In this case, French is the object language and Spanish is the metalanguage Use vs. Mention Usually, we use words to talk about something other than the words themselves Minnesota was the 32nd state admitted to the Union.
		A metalanguage statement that discusses SL could look like this: ‘~P’ is a negation.
		Here, the expression mentioned is not a part of the object language English, but ‘rtxf’ is an expression in English since we can use it in the metalanguage Metavariables Remember that in the definition of the sentential connectives, bold capital letters are used to represent any SL sentence.
	www.cs.brandeis.edu /~jlittman/SummerLogic/lectureNotes/June8.doc (1391 words)

	The Natural Semantic Metalanguage Homepage
		The approach is based on evidence that there is a small core of basic, universal meanings, known as semantic primes, which can be found as words or other linguistic expressions in all languages.
		Semantic explications are explanatory paraphrases, framed in the metalanguage of simple and universal semantic primes.
		On the translatability of the subjunctive: Its use in the natural semantic metalanguage of Spanish.
	www-personal.une.edu.au /~cgoddard (6411 words)

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		use any of the metalanguage paradigms and code in their products.
		specify and prototype elements of this metalanguage to the extent possible given the resouces obtained by membership fees.
		recognition as the incubating environment for the metalanguage effort.
	www.ejtalk.com /Top/Tech/Tool/MetaLanguage/Concept.html (135 words)

	ITRDBFOR Archives - November 1999
		A tree is a tree is a tree: metalanguage and sprouter longevity
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	listserv.arizona.edu /cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind9911&L=itrdbfor (510 words)

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