Sentence examples for linguistic operation from inspiring English sources

Everett's most explosive claim, however, was that Pirahã displays no evidence of recursion, a linguistic operation that consists of inserting one phrase inside another of the same type, as when a speaker combines discrete thoughts ("the man is walking down the street," "the man is wearing a top hat") into a single sentence ("The man who is wearing a top hat is walking down the street").

If it functions (or purports to function) as a viable linguistic operation, it appears somewhere in this juxtaposition-happy assemblage: stage directions, mailing addresses, quotations, footnotes, cross-outs, untranslated foreign-language bons mots -- you get the picture.

According to Searle, social entities are created by a linguistic operation, namely the declaration that a respective status function exists ([ 52]: 93).

Whatever linguistic operations are under way at the National Guard center in Draper, they are virtually unknown to many of the Guard's neighbors in a former agricultural region that in recent years has become a vast bedroom community.

Records and traits can be composed by explicit linguistic operations, allowing code manipulations to achieve fine-grained code reuse.

In poststructuralists' use of the "palimpsest" as an important metaphor for postmodern cultural and linguistic operations we see a basic problem with poststructuralism as a political instrument.

Paratactic linguistic operations, "The New Sentence," sound poetry, "flarf" -- all of these are born of a theory of non-absorptivity that focuses exclusively on language's counter-communicative infirmities and therefore what amateur semioticians call "immanent" text.

The reason postmodern literary artists habitually speak of immanence rather than transcendence, and think of themselves as being operationally disinclined to author acts of transcendence, is because, since the advent of Language writing, poststructuralist literary theory has spoken of immanence and transcendence only in terms of linguistic operations.

The aims of this study were (1) to classify collected Kansei words into a set of Kansei attributes by using cluster analysis based on fuzzy relations; (2) to model Kansei preferences based on semantic labels for the priority analysis; and (3) to synthesize priority information and rank the order of decision alternatives by means of the linguistic aggregation operation.

Thus, besides identifying the mental operations that most likely modulate M1 (explicit or implicit encoding of motor content), insight was gained as to when M1 is recruited and what the nature of its relationship (causal?) is with linguistic performance.

He has also blamed his own disorganisation, ill health (including an impending hole-in-the-heart operation) and linguistic misunderstandings.Presented as fact, his book has sold around 4m copies since it was published in 2006 and is required reading for American soldiers in Afghanistan.