Sentence examples for linguistic experiments from inspiring English sources

It must have seemed that Mallarmé was losing his mind, particularly when he undertook linguistic experiments that flirted with gibberish.

Cummings's linguistic experiments ranged from newly invented compound words to inverted syntax.

But the collapse of Communism revealed the bankruptcy not just of the Stalinist social experiment, but of its linguistic experiments as well.

The latter's linguistic experiments "were not a product of a desire to 'develop his medium to the fullest'", Leavis magisterially declared, "but of a pressure of something to be conveyed".

** Shloss thinks that this artistic symbiosis went on for years and that out of it came the theme of "Finnegans Wake" (flow), its linguistic experiments, much of its imagery, and also, because dance is abstract, its quasi-abstract quality.

The two men stepped from the cockpit, Fitch toting a laptop computer into which he had programmed a week's worth of linguistic experiments that he intended to perform on the Pirahã.

While some conlangs such as Klingon and Esperanto were made to be spoken, Kēlen is more a linguistic experiment.

His last novel, Green Flows the Bile (1969), was partly satire, partly erotic romp and linguistic experiment.

At his best, Palahniuk is relentless, as in the sustained linguistic experiment of Pygmy, his 2009 novel about an anti-American exchange student infiltrating the midwest.

His latest play, a two-man creation myth presented by the touring AJTC company, is a weirdly compelling affair: a mix of spiritual exploration, linguistic experiment and artistic metaphor.

His first novel, The Voice (1964), is a remarkable linguistic experiment in which Okara translated directly from the Ijo (Ijaw) language, imposing Ijo syntax onto English in order to give literal expression to African ideas and imagery.