So, in what follows, I shall simplify matters by talking as if Aristotle's first classificatory system is really a classification of extra-linguistic items; and I shall note places at which such an interpretation faces difficulties.
The sentence goes on to cite George Lakoff's study of linguistic classification, Women, Fire and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind.
The Nostratic theory is among the most promising of the many currently controversial theories of linguistic classification.
And because the English word 'category' comes from the Greek word for predicate, one might naturally think of the second system as a classification of distinct types of linguistic predicates.
It is unclear whether Aristotle considers this classification to be one of linguistic expressions that can be predicated of something else; or of kinds of predication; or of highest genera.
The categorical nature of our linguistic experience is directly reflected in the traditionally clear-cut linguistic classification of languages into tonal or non-tonal.
A traditional linguistic classification of the Southern African Khoisan languages divides them into three effectively unrelated groups: Northern, Central, and Southern.
Otto Behaghel, (born May 3, 1854, Karlsruhe, Baden [Germany] died Oct. 9, 1936, Munich), language scholar who specialized in studies of the German language and whose Deutsche Syntax, 4 vol. (1923 32; "German Syntax"), is a massive compilation and classification of examples of German linguistic usage from the 8th to the early 20th century.
This involves the linguistic classification of the percentage errors ( e_{k} ) of each model forecast into ( j ) number of classes carried out under the assumption of time invariance data behaviour (Sullivan and Woodward 1994).
Asians also have the highest rate of linguistic isolation, a classification in which nobody older than 13 in a household speaks English well.
