The theory of descriptions has been criticized by some linguists and philosophers who see descriptions and other noun phrases as full-fledged linguistic constituents of sentences, and who see the sharp distinction between grammatical and logical form as a mistake.
Thus, reading to understand Chinese texts meant for the reader to be able to solicit syntactic information from the given linguistic constituents and their semantic relationships within and among sentences in the text (Chao, 1968; Li & Thompson, 1981).
To decide the plurality of these characters require the reader to look for more syntactic information from the given linguistic constituents (e.g., quantifiers like一些 some, 許多 many) or their semantic relationships within and among sentences in the text (e.g., 把椅子排成一列 Put the chair(s) in a row).
A number of experiments shows that neural oscillations in auditory cortex track the slow fluctuations of speech, but none of them has explicitly tied oscillations to specific linguistic constituents, such as we do here with respect to theta oscillations and syllables.
General writing systems all analyze the linguistic form into constituents of meaning or sound.
Her work focuses on how language contact affects linguistic variation, in particular constituent order in the world's languages.
In business communication, as will be seen in the current study, linguistic forms are the constituents of a semiotic system which the communicators select to create their reality while ensuring the establishment of an interpersonal relationship with respect to power and solidarity.
There were times when I tumbled into the crevice between the two languages, lost all sight of a natural English sentence, felt myself turning into the constituent molecules of a linguistic object – a pattern of auxiliaries, participles, pronouns.
If you view all sentences as atomic, then, as Fodor and Pylyshyn say, the systematicity of language production/understanding is a mystery, but if you acknowledge that sentences have syntactic constituent structure, systematicity of linguistic capacities is what you automatically get; it is guaranteed.
