'linguistic shift' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to a change or evolution in language over time. For example, "Linguistic shift has occurred over the centuries as languages interact, creating new words and phrases."
This linguistic shift, along with use solely within the proper context, makes "kneela" familiar and welcoming.
The new senses of the noun are signaled in another linguistic shift in the press and in White House speeches.
The linguistic shift from Dutch to Afrikaans did not occur without considerable dispute among the whites of Dutch descent.
To many teen-agers, "homemade" has come to mean nothing more than "home heated". Marian Salzman, director of brand futures at Young & Rubicam Advertising, predicts that subtle linguistic shift might well carry right into adulthood.
A LINGUISTIC shift took place in this newspaper as it reported the details of how the Central Intelligence Agency was allowed to strip Al Qaeda prisoners naked, bash them against walls, keep them awake for up to 11 straight days, sometimes with their arms chained to the ceiling, confine them in dark boxes and make them feel as if they were drowning.
I would say, "Ready for your bath?" And he would answer, "No, estoy jugando!" (No! I'm playing!) If I pushed him to make the linguistic shift, I would get the furrowed brow and the unequivocal "No English!" English began to feel like a forced and intrusive presence between us.
While being faithful to the original, he succeeds in conveying linguistic shifts, from narrative to mnemonic, sermons to parables.
Academic researchers can tap into the data to conduct rigorous studies of linguistic shifts across decades or centuries.
Broad linguistic shifts like those usually owe less to conscious decisions by editors or speechwriters than to often unnoticed changes in the way people perceive their world.
Voice – AVATAR listens carefully to speech, looking for linguistic shifts and changes in tone to determine whether a person's being truthful.
In this talk I will review evidence from a multi-disciplinary line of research, which suggests that far from representing a simple quirk of speech or epiphenomenon, these linguistic shifts serve a powerful and potentially primitive self-control function, enhancing people's ability to reason wisely and control their thoughts, feelings and behaviors under stress.
