linguistic

How To Use linguistic In A Sentence

• In any event, when making a case against the indivisibility of Sinitic, it is not necessary to rebut each of these "common" features individually, since they are largely or wholly extralinguistic. Language Log
• In present-day usage, despite Fowler's strictures, concern for classical and linguistic purity is minimal and the coining of etymological hybrids is casual and massive.
• Two distinct linguistic groups are represented here. The Times Literary Supplement
• Whether we take the signified or the signifier, Saussure argues, language has neither ideas nor sounds that existed before the linguistic system, but only conceptual and phonic differences that have issued from the system.
• So this is a linguistic constraint.
• Crystal has shown how this bias in linguistics carries over into lay views of language.
• Functionalism as a linguistic approach is different from generative and cognitive approaches in that it makes no claim as to the cognitive reality of the mechanisms it proposes - that matter is irrelevant to its usefulness.
• To return to the Kantian terms with which we began, heil is linguistic self-affection. Patriot Acts: The Political Language of Henrich von Kleist
• Pinpointing the source of crosslinguistic influences in the interlanguage of a multilingual speaker is less straightforward.
• Consequently it has provided a testing ground for a number of competing hypotheses concerning the relationship between syntax, semantics, and pragmatics in linguistic theory.