Sentence examples similar to linguistic predilection from inspiring English sources

But the educator's predilection for alma mater Italia's ancient tongue isn't just a "symbolic" flight of linguistic fancy.

My predilection for stories of squalor and glitter, hysteria and moral complexity, led me most recently to 19th-century New York, which offers interesting parallels to the present-day city, and a dragon's pile of linguistic loot.

Linguistic functions.

Linguistic ties matter too.

Parameters that are quin­tessentially linguistic?

There was a male predilection (1.7M 1.0F).

The linguistic subtext seemed clear.

The linguistic coincidences were many.

…of the French predilection for classicism.

PITY the linguistic purists.

To what linguistic end?