Sentence examples for descriptions of language from inspiring English sources

He also grasps the need to engage the interest of readers for whom the word "wireless" certainly doesn't call to mind a radio, though not everyone will cherish his descriptions of language as "a wiki that pools the contributions of millions of writers and speakers" and grammar as "the original sharing app".

As he explains, "[a] very different perspective is reflected in descriptions of language as a social-semiotic system, which focus on its role in defining human experience, and enacting the social relations essential to our shared sense of humanity".

We complete this chapter with a description of the basic lexical and syntactic elements of the language, to form a basis for the detailed descriptions of language features that follow in later chapters.

Although Chomsky was careful to stress in his earliest writings that generative grammar does not provide a model for the production or reception of language utterances, there has been a good deal of psycholinguistic research directed toward validating the psychological reality of the units and processes postulated by generative grammarians in their descriptions of languages.

Therefore, a review of the descriptions of language-related fiber anatomy in the human and monkey brain was performed.

Very little work has been reported in this area, and very few game semantic descriptions of languages have been published.

Probabilistic descriptions of languages can complement other methodologies used by linguists and have implications for work in a number of fields in addition to linguistic description.

These developments receive corresponding resonances in the descriptions of languages such as French (Huddleston et al. 1969), Gooniyandi (Barnwell 1969) and Nzema (Mock 1969).

It should, therefore, be emphasised that, contrary to a popular view outside SFL, systemic functional theory has, since its very beginning, been deployed in describing different languages, with earlier descriptions of languages such as Chinese, English, French, Beja, Nzema and Zapotec empowering the theory and enriching later descriptions of some of these languages as well as new languages.

However, it was not until the last two decades that descriptions of languages other than English, particularly in the light of language typology, garnered much interest among scholars working with systemic theory.

Phonology, therefore, would have to be a description of language as sounding and wording.