Sentence examples for features of a language from inspiring English sources

The systematic description of the features of a language is also a grammar.

"Maybe it doesn't yet fulfil the criteria of being a national language but has all the major features of a language, and it doesn't come with any of the political issues of choosing a single national language".

Does this imply that there are no such things as lexical meanings understood as features of a language?

However, functions usually have small code blocks and use very few features of a language.

Here one may point to the widespread existence of verbal games themselves, based on the accidental features of a particular language.

Seibt has developed a Vendler-style classification of basic occurrence types in terms of inferential networks, i.e., independently of the features of a particular language, which is integrated into a more comprehensive approach for a general classifcation of processes based on five parameters that address various structural and compositional aspects (2004, 2009).

Mathesius put it like this: " … linguistic characterology deals only with the important and fundamental features of a given language at a given point in time, analyses them on the basis of general linguistics and tries to ascertain relations between them" [1964: 59].

Much of the work of dialectology has consisted of gathering information about the types of variation that occur in different dialects and the construction of linguistic atlases showing patterns of distribution for a series of varying features within a language.

NP-Click combines an efficient abstraction of the target architecture with features of a domain-specific language for networking.

These skills included all features of language and speech, eye contact, gestures, pointing, and fine motor skills.

Participants were only presented two features of the language: creation of a new sprite (object) and the possibility to drag and drop blocks in each sprite's program.