Sentence examples for descriptive expression from inspiring English sources

According to her, the first type, as illustrated in 25, involves a "descriptive expression".

This is shown in 28, in which 28a involves a descriptive expression and 28b a resultative expression.

As far as the de-part is concerned, Li would analyze 43a as containing a descriptive expression and 43b as containing a resultative expression.

Li (1990) does not define "descriptive expression" and "resultative expression", but it seems that her first type corresponds to Li and Thompson's examples where, according to Li and Thompson, a "manner" interpretation arises.

Since our results are based merely on descriptive expression data, future functional tests will be needed for further evaluation of the precise pathophysiological role.

We present descriptive expression data and functional data on cell migration, receptor binding and in vivo tumour and ocular angiogenesis in vivo.

Analysis of the transcriptions involved the identification of descriptive expressions and ultimately common elements.

Li (1990) claims that the categorical contrast between descriptive and resultative expressions is supported by the fact that, while resultative expressions allow an overt noun phrase, descriptive expressions do not.

Speakers to whom such questions seemed open were tacitly aware of this difference in function and hence not in a position to equate moral expressions with descriptive expressions.

These terms and their variations were used to create broad categories of descriptive expressions common to the majority of definitions.

Nor does he lose a sense of the relation a relation necessary to the meaning of the aesthetic language we use – between the aesthetically-descriptive expressions we employ within particular contexts and "what we call the culture of the period" (Wittgenstein 1966, 8).