Sentence examples for grammatical evidence from inspiring English sources

What is striking here is that most of the semantic implications postulated in Jackendoff (2007) may find grammatical evidence in Mandarin.

In the former case, the child has positive evidence that strings of that kind are grammatical, evidence that would enable her to suppose that the non-occurrence of that particular string was just an accident.

In a similar vein, Paul and Whitman (2010) and Georgala (2012) reject Pylkkänen's thesis on the basis of semantic and grammatical evidence and put forward an alternative proposal that places all applicatives consistently above VP.

This attitude towards Indian English as a flawed variety replete with grammatical mistakes was evidence of teachers' lack of awareness concerning World Englishes.

Assessment criteria High grammatical accuracy is evidenced by use of a range of structures, with only occasional slips.

Two linguists at the University of Hong Kong, Stephen Matthews and Umberto Ansaldo, are uncovering much evidence of grammatical structures in Cantonese taken from non-Sinitic sources, and suspect that other Chinese language groups have "borrowed" similarly.

Chomskyans contest that there are many other cases in which speaker-hearers know grammatical rules, the critical evidence in favor of which is missing from the pld.

Communication between cotton-top tamarins is sophisticated and shows evidence of grammatical structure, a language feature that must be acquired.

The growing "I" became prevalent in the 13th and 14th centuries, with a Geoffrey Chaucer manuscript of "The Canterbury Tales" among the first evidence of this grammatical shift.

The acquisition of disjunction: evidence for a grammatical view of scalar implicatures.

The finding that all observed charges were 'quantized' in this manner disconfirmed the competing 'continuous charges' hypothesis in the same way that positive evidence can disconfirm grammatical hypotheses.[16] Chomsky has recognized the existence of such 'indirect' negative data in the pld.