Sentence examples for classification of languages from inspiring English sources

There are two kinds of classification of languages practiced in linguistics: genetic (or genealogical) and typological.

Over the years since Grierson first proposed his scheme, it has appeared increasingly questionable, both as a consequence of his own somewhat arbitrary selection of linguistic criteria to distinguish between related local varieties of Indo-Aryan speech and as a result of increasingly sharp disagreements over the classification of languages and dialects in the region.

For instance, a comparative description of systems and regularities in their realisations as is exemplified by Matthiessen (2004) could be an important contribution to testing and validating the classification of languages into families.

This view places importance on the study of linguistic typology, or the classification of languages according to structural features, as it can be shown that processes of grammaticalization tend to follow trajectories that are partly dependent on typology.

The categorical nature of our linguistic experience is directly reflected in the traditionally clear-cut linguistic classification of languages into tonal or non-tonal.

Therefore, we would like to argue that rather than a discrete categorical classification of languages into tone languages and non-tone languages, a more fine-grained account is needed [48] that takes into account the extent to which (in this case) pitch information is actually used to distinguish phonological categories in processing.

To do this, we employed a series of Chi-square analyses having the binary classification of behavioral problems (normal vs. "at risk of") and the binary classification of language severity for each area, separately (moderate vs. severe) as the variables of interest.

Language families, as conceived in the historical study of languages, should not be confused with the quite separate classifications of languages by reference to their sharing certain predominant features of grammatical structure.

The most widely accepted classification of these languages follows.Cuitlatec (language isolate, extinct) [spoken in Guerrero]Huave (language isolate) [Oaxaca]Mayan Languages of the Mayan family are spoken in Guatemala, southern Mexico, and Belize.

The final section discusses some issues concerning classifications of language attrition situations – L1 vs. L2, formally vs. informally acquired L2 – and their impact on the selection of a research design.

Many of his language groups correspond closely to the current classification of these languages.