Sentence examples for linguistic possibilities from inspiring English sources

In works large and small, framed and not, he explores the plastic and linguistic possibilities of drawing.

But in linking its exploration of tedium to the rarefied world of taxes, it opens itself to a very particular set of linguistic possibilities, exploiting them to create a verbal music of striking originality.

Sometimes this makes Being and Time a very tough read, which is not helped by the fact that Heidegger, more than any other modern philosopher, exploits the linguistic possibilities of his native language, in his case German.

This principle rests on several motives, including the following: (a) Pieces of text taken in isolation are typically ambiguous in various ways (in relation to background linguistic possibilities).

Among the different linguistic possibilities, that classical Arabic noun, (phone), and its seemingly arbitrary etymology, seemed more appropriate to me than the dialectal phrasing, (telephone), as it partly derived from French.

And this seems right, because commonly the linguistic meaning of a formula is ambiguous (in terms of background linguistic possibilities), and in order to identify the relevant meaning one must turn, not only (as already mentioned) to larger bodies of text, but also to hypotheses, largely derived therefrom, concerning the author's intentions (e.g. concerning the subject-matter he intends to treat).

In the bookstore, the paperback felt fat in my hands, thick with linguistic possibility.

A full sentence broken across 11 couplets, "A Burnt Ship" illustrates the poet's range of linguistic possibility.

The difference between these formalist and naturalistic approaches can be understood as a division of labor between the tasks of exploring logico-linguistic possibilities of conceptual reconstruction and considering the efficacy of particular scientific practices.

Vermaat (2006) takes the strong position that the cross-linguistic possibilities for displacement can be fully captured in terms of the right branch extraction postulates discussed above, together with their mirror images for extraction from left branches.

Feminism and linguistic theory.