Sentence examples for linguistic example from inspiring English sources

A striking linguistic example of this is the French word for transom, "vasistas," which comes from the phrase "was ist das?" uttered by Germans who were presumably astounded by their first contact with so remarkable an invention.

He looked crestfallen, with an expression that said, "Why does this man tell me he needs to sew draperies at 8 o'clock?" Mr. Musselman had a linguistic example more apropos to aviation.

Other linguistic examples include presidential candidates dropping g's before Southern audiences or changing the cadence of their speech before black audiences.

To continue with linguistic examples, we know that the dynamic interpretant is the actual interpretation we make, or understanding we reach, in the first instance of interpretation.

Instead of the names John, Mary, etc., usually employed in linguistic examples, let us use the animation characters of Sylvester the cat, Speedy Gonzales the mouse, Tweety the bird, and Hector the dog, familiar from TV, as an aid to distinguish the individuals pointed at by indexicals.

Or to cite a "non-linguistic" example, Herder argues that Egyptian sculpture (unlike Greek) had the purpose as a genre of expressing certain ideas about death and eternity — so that the full interpretation of a piece of Egyptian sculpture must include this aspect of its meaning deriving from the general genre.

Quine often took this tack of making problematic relations explicitly linguistic, for example, in the case of propositional attitudes; see Quine (1960: 211 216).

Discriminant validity was assessed in comparison to MWT-B, which describes vocabulary abilities, in order to clarify whether the FQLP only assesses basic linguistic (for example semantic) abilities.

Reflecting the ethnic incoherence of colonial divisions that now constitute the borders of modern African nations, neighboring countries with strong linguistic links (examples are given) include South Africa (Zulu, Tsonga), Zambia (Nyanja, Nsenga), Malawi (Chichewa, Yao), Zimbabwe (Tsonga, Ndau), Swaziland (Swati, Tsonga), and Tanzania (Yao, Makonde).

Based on their cross-linguistic data (examples are given from about 21 languages), they argue for a universal classification of existential clauses as a sub-type of relational processes.

He proposed that we have "a multitude of intelligences"—for example, linguistic, mathematical, musical, spatial and interpersonal.