Sentence examples for linguistic evolution from inspiring English sources

But Walsh also accepts as "useful linguistic evolution" the word gender to mean "sex".

(Darwin himself was inspired by linguistic evolution in hypothesising the biological kind).

Immigration has had a significant impact on the demographic and linguistic evolution of the city.

Sue Butler, editor of the Macquarie Dictionary, said that, on this occasion, it had failed to keep pace with linguistic evolution.

Toponymy is concerned with the linguistic evolution (etymology) of place-names and the motive behind the naming of the place (historical and geographical aspects).

Granted, even after linguistic evolution has assimilated opposing terms to one another, it is still possible to use our language to make the distinctions they formerly expressed.

I've spent much of the last year writing a book about language and technology, and the rise of "ungooglable" and its international equivalents marks one of the most characteristic linguistic evolutions of our age: binary vocabulary.

We have recently investigated the evolution of linguistic diversity by means of a simple spatial model that considers selective geographic colonization, linguistic anomalous diffusion and mutation.

Plausible Darwinian explanations for altruism have drawn growing support, as have theories about the evolution of linguistic and other cognitive skills.

Young sign languages develop in predictable ways, offering clues to the evolution of linguistic complexity.

Our analysis has significance for a number of areas in natural and artificial communication where one studies the design, learning, and evolution of linguistic communication systems.