Sentence examples for language placed from inspiring English sources

Guy Deutscher's 2005 book "The Unfolding of Language" placed him firmly in the pro-culture camp.

Deutscher's 2005 book, "The Unfolding of Language," placed him firmly in the pro-culture camp.

Stravinsky's Sonata from 1924 is the composer's ambiguous tonal language placed under the clear, bright light of an 18th-century aesthetic.

But Bloody Sunday changed the public language, placed "armed struggle" at the forefront of the agenda and destroyed the credibility of the British state as peacekeeper in Northern Ireland.

Again and again it wows you with its ambition, its implication, the more forceful for never being italicised, that simple words from our frail and brittle English language, placed quietly in order, with assiduous care, can do almost anything at all," he wrote.

This language placed the events at the Gare du Nord in a long tradition of popular uprisings in the city – from the days of La Fronde through to the French Revolution and the Commune, these have been a defining feature of Parisian history.

American soldiers, they complain, burst into houses with excessive force, breaking furniture and windows, using foul language, placing hoods over suspects' heads and, often, beating them.

More than half a million people now speak Polish as their first language, placing it ahead of more established languages Punjabi and Urdu and behind only official languages English and Welsh.

It is the same in Germany, where a third of high school students will be studying Latin this year and the language places third after English and French as an exam choice.

But there is no clear conflict or even a conceptual connection between Whorf's views about language placing limits on developmental plasticity, and Chomsky's thesis of an innate universal architecture for syntax.

Languages placing the verb before the subject and the object, for example, tend to have prepositions and auxiliaries preceding the main verb, whereas languages placing the verb after the subject and object tend to have postpositions and auxiliaries following the verb.