Sentence examples for dialect elements from inspiring English sources

They represent the oldest known Greek dialect, elements of which survived in Homer's language as a result of a long oral tradition of epic poetry.

In his voluminous lyric output he experimented with a variety of metrical forms and forged a characteristic style, interwoven with neologisms and dialect elements.

It became more and more clear that each dialectal element or phenomenon refused to stay neatly within the borders of a single dialect area and that each had its own isogloss; consequently, maps of dialects would have to be replaced by maps showing the distribution of each particular feature.

But here Mr. Potter, who turned 40 last month, adapted not only Mr. Shorter's dialect, but also elements of his ensemble syntax: the rippling dynamics and elastic sense of time, the pairing of airy near-abstraction with earthy groove.

As a consequence of an individual's daily contacts with speakers of the various social dialects of a city, elements of the other dialects are imperceptibly drawn into his dialect.

Even a standard language that was originally based on one local dialect changes, however, as elements of other dialects infiltrate into it over the years.

The Hildebrandslied ("Song of Hildebrand") fragment from the 8th century is written in an Upper German dialect but also includes Old Saxon elements.

He must distinguish between the systematic features and sporadic unsystematized features of each dialect, since every dialect has elements that are not built into the system.

Kristina Sandklef, a China analyst who is advising Degavro, said the expert's comments on the way the teenager's Korean was often ungrammatical and included elements of other dialects picked up in a decade living as a roaming kotjebi or streetchild had been misinterpreted.

Although it employed the Uighur script, Qarakhanid does not seem to have been identical to Uighur, but it seems to have absorbed elements from Turkic dialects spoken in the southwestern part of the Tarim Basin and possibly the eastern Fergana Valley (today in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan).

Bantu elements exist in every dialect of Malagasy and appear to have been established for some time.