Sentence examples for linguistic boundary from inspiring English sources

Restatement of doctrine has been required whenever Christianity crossed a linguistic boundary.

The linguistic boundary is minutely demarcated by law and passes roughly east-west across north-central Belgium on a line just south of the capital city, Brussels.

There is no structurally significant linguistic boundary that coincides with the national and standard language boundaries between the Netherlands and Belgium on the one side and Germany on the other; at the level of local dialects, the entire Dutch-German territory from the English Channel to the Alps constitutes a continuum, with only gradual transitions from one village to the next.

For example, the Romance/Germanic linguistic boundary is roughly where the Roman advance came to rest two millennia ago despite massive flows of people across the boundary.

Linguistic boundaries were equally blurred.

"Cultures of language" may cross linguistic boundaries.

Hysteria, it seems, crosses all geographic (and linguistic) boundaries.

And the smaller magazines that serve as a laboratory for publishing innovation -- chic downtown magazines like City and Nest -- are pushing graphic rather than linguistic boundaries.

"In contemporary literature today," Marina Warner remarked in a recent lecture, "we are seeing the written word cross linguistic boundaries" with an increasing interest in worldwide fiction.

Spanish and English mix and stray across linguistic boundaries, and the blending of cultures is always an uneasy work in progress.

As the poet and Harvard professor Stephen Burt once put it in an essay for the Poetry Foundation, Herrera's work "shows roots in West Coast Chicano/a experience even while it exults in crossing national, regional, social, and linguistic boundaries".