They were pulsings of our linguistic lifeblood, proof that English was large, contained multitudes.
Mr. Kosuth's contribution, "O.&A./F D! (TO I.K. AND G.F .," from 1987, is, sorry to say, the most viewer-proof, a linguistic conundrum out of Freud through Duchamp, in which a large, mundane photograph of a hall doorway meant as a metaphor for the entrance to the Sigmund Freud Museum is set against a blown-up passage from Freud's "Interpretation of Dreams".
The American linguist Noam Chomsky, for example, has argued that the ability of young (developmentally normal) children to acquire any human language on the basis of invariably incomplete and even incorrect data is proof of the existence of innate linguistic structures.
Taking valid deductive reasoning to be the reliable extraction of information from information already obtained, Barwise and Etchemendy (1996:4) pose the following question: Why cannot the representations composing a proof be visual as well as linguistic?
They are living proof that despite of all the ethnic, linguistic, religious, political, geographical and historical divides -- humanity shines ever brighter today.
Although Gold talks in developmental psycholinguistic terms about language learners learning grammars by trial and error, his extremely abstract proofs actually make no reference to the linguistic content of languages or grammars at all.
She answered an advertisement for a proof reader and editor at Puzzler where her linguistic skills were swiftly noticed and she was offered a full-time position.
Proof is made by the study of the linguistic distribution of communities in a Belgian mobile call graph [32], where the communities returned by the Louvain method strikingly show a well-known linguistic split, as illustrated on Figure 5. Figure 5 Community detection in Belgium.
Gratifying because it's a novel of true narrative and linguistic splendour that bears comparison with her best work; and also as proof that fame has widened her readership rather than flattened her prose.
