Is this the poem of a "literal man," or is that attribute merely assigned to the speaker by a companion about whose mind the speaker possesses only inept, overliteral hypotheses?
Furthermore, the spoken word is a natural sign implying that the speaker possesses the concept of the object meant by the word according to its regular meaning.
But not every speaker possesses the ability to shape the truth with a heretical heart and a righteous imagination, which is the reason some of us go to the theatre in the first place.
In his obituary, he was described "as a speaker [who] took very high rank, possessing a force and fluency of expression, a power of lucid statement, and a readiness in debate, which with one or two exceptions have never been equalled in the Council".
One asks the other, "Did you know that in Hampstead they have fifty different names for bread?" Even if Eskimo speakers did possess a voluminous vocabulary for snow, or Hampsteaders for bread, it wouldn't prove that they were subject to some separate reality.
Similarly, the diaphonemic system in goes beyond the common core, marking contrasts that only appear in some varieties; Geraghty argues that, because of Fijian marriage customs that prompt exposure to other dialects, speakers may possess a diasystem that represents multiple dialects as part of their communicative competence.
Wilkinson also admitted possessing a firearm.
Mrs. Merkel is not a charismatic speaker but she possesses a commanding air.
Generative, or transformational, grammarians of the second half of the 20th century, such as Noam Chomsky, studied the knowledge that native speakers possess which enables them to produce and understand an infinite number of sentences.
The precision matrix L possesses a unique structure since all sessions from the same speakers are tied to one speaker-specific latent variable.
While this is not the most direct measure of sensitivity to the finite difference in meaning between these structures, it was unclear that even adult native speakers of English would possess an explicit awareness of the nuanced difference between prepositional and DO construction.
