In explaining the problem and eventual solution, Ms. Fox makes the complexities of linguistic scholarship accessible, weaving observations about language into the stories of her primary characters, two of whom met tragic and untimely ends.
On my latest assignment for the BBC Academy in Bangladesh I had an insight into the complexities of linguistic division that journalists there deal with day to day.
This essence is itself simple or a unity, despite the apparent complexity of the linguistic definition that picks it out.
As in other domains like visuo-spatial cognition (Akshoomoff and Stiles 1995a; 1995b; Stiles, Akshoomoff and Haist 2013), developmental differences in language skills will often come to light as the difficulty or complexity of the linguistic material or task demands increase (Simpson and Foster 1986; Cycowicz et al. 1997; Brooks and MacWhinney 2000; Leech et al. 2007).
"On the Linguistic Complexity of Proper Names". Linguistics and Philosophy 31 (5): 5731627.
Not surprisingly, many of the playlets are concerned with the complexities of communication, linguistic and otherwise.
We close by presenting our refined framework for describing the interaction of linguistic complexity and mathematical complexity in curriculum materials, and discuss potential uses of this framework in the design of more accessible classroom learning environments for linguistically diverse students.
In summary, this study has identified referentiality as linked to grammar and particularly definiteness, along with specific measures of grammatical complexity, as linguistic markers that distinguish FTD (but not SZ at large) from non-clinical controls.
But then Deutscher switches to another issue entirely, that of linguistic complexity.
Though her writing is clear and engrossing, the book's meaning unfolds less through metaphor or lyrical language than through action; people living in such dangerous times, she implies, can afford the luxury of linguistic complexity only if it's in service of the cause.
While some readers found in poems a resource for aesthetic pleasure and the enjoyment of linguistic complexity, many others turned to poems for spiritual and psychic wellbeing, adapted popular musical settings of poems to spread scandal and satire, or used poems as a medium for asserting personal and family memories as well as local and national affiliations.
