We then use this information to discover which linguistic and spatial features distinguish peaceful from violent forms of collective action and how these features speak to the current literature on collective violence.
In the mid-20th century, however, the Norwegian linguist Georg Morgenstierne discovered several linguistic characteristics and archaisms in the Nuristani group that suggested its very early separation from other branches of Indo-Iranian.
The comparative study of the world's languages, as Humboldt envisioned it, thus represented a constant challenge to the empirical linguist and to the philosopher; namely, to discover in the linguistic data that which relates to the prototypal in language and to increase our knowledge of the nature of language and the human language capacity.
In addition, if linguists discovered that some linguistic feature was optional in two different languages, then even if psychological experiments showed differences between the two populations of speakers, this would not show linguistic determination or influence.
As J. L. Ackrill writes, Aristotle's Categories "is not primarily or explicitly about names, but about the things that names signify…Aristotle relies greatly on linguistic facts and tests, but his aim is to discover truths about non-linguistic items" (1963, 71).
The scholar of Semitic languages will discover in Yiddish the linguistic vehicle that sustained a significant body of Hebrew and Aramaic materials as part of every-day discourse among Ashkenazic Jews throughout the European period in Jewish history.
Day by day, her linguistic expeditions discover new lands and possibilities.
Believing that the text should be approached directly, the writers of the commentary make constant use of the recently discovered historical and linguistic evidence now available to elucidate it.
It was only later that I discovered that his linguistic skills extended only to such phrases as "What do you want for that scrawny chicken?" and "Please don't shoot". He could indeed make himself understood in such non-trivial matters in all these languages.
I am interested in natural language processing and how we can appropriately formalize linguistic structure and discover it automatically.
Humboldt compared linguistic varieties in order to discover patterns across those variations, the idea being that linguistic universals occur throughout human experience, if only we can capture the common patterns.
