Sentence examples for linguistic relationships from inspiring English sources

"Words exist that can in principle resolve 20,000-year-old linguistic relationships," Dr. Pagel of Reading wrote in a recent symposium volume, "Time Depth in Historical Linguistics," adding that "words that can resolve even deeper linguistic relationships are not out of the question".

To get around that cognitive complexity, computational humor researchers have by and large taken a more concrete approach: focusing on simple linguistic relationships, like double meanings, rather than on trying to model the high-level mental mechanics that underlie humor.

It is possible that the failure to demonstrate Khoisan linguistic relationships convincingly is a function of the limitations of conventional and other comparative methods to penetrate the great time-depth separating the groups.

Conventional methods of linguistic comparison applied between the main groups of the Khoisan languages have failed to yield regular sound correspondences, which would allow common roots to be reconstructed; and shared innovations in grammatical structure, which are regarded as the best source of evidence for postulating linguistic relationships are, frustratingly, absent.

These linguistic relationships among factors and their initial states are assessed by the proposed hesitant linguistic cognitive map method.

Genetic and contact linguistic relationships of more recent date can be traced through the distribution of words for these secondary crops as well as some primary crops in some languages.

We will be politically poorer if the special linguistic relationship entirely eliminates the intercontinental rhetorical divide.

"If they entered more recently, it is not such a stretch to say you can see a linguistic relationship," Dr. Wells said.

The two major branches of Uralic are themselves composed of numerous subgroupings of member languages on the basis of closeness of linguistic relationship.

He liked sulfur for its bright yellow hue, its corrosive effects and its linguistic relationship to the French verb "souffrir" (to suffer).

This suggests that the similarity in sound systems may have resulted from close contact between Basques and Iberians and not from a genetic linguistic relationship.