Sentence examples for of attested from inspiring English sources

What is really special about such "parent" or "proto-" languages is that they represent the farthest point to which available techniques and resources enable linguists to reconstruct the prehistory of attested and living languages.

By far the largest part of attested Old Iranian is written in the language now usually called Avestan, after the Avesta, the name given to the collection of works forming the scripture of the Zoroastrians.

Bresnan and her colleagues defend the use of corpora bodies of attested written and spoken texts.

Clearly, such a corpus is not a raw record of attested utterances at all; it is a combination of a collection of attested utterances together with a systematic attempt at analysing their structure.

If one assumes, with the Externalists, that the main goal of a linguistic theory is to develop accurate models of the structural properties of the speech sounds, words, phrases, and other linguistic items, then the clearly privileged information will include corpora (written and oral)—bodies of attested and recorded language use (suitably idealized).

A small number of attested alternation types relative to the possible number of alternation types would be consistent with the predictions of the sublanguage model, while a large number of attested alternation types relative to the possible number of alternation types would seem to falsify it.

Implicit domain restrictions are likely to be the byproducts of a number of independently attested mechanisms, then.

Three lines of evidences attested the quality of our data.

See the earlier tables in the body of the paper for the number of alternations attested for such verbs.

A number of women attested to his being a crushing bore.

As one of them attested, "He's the only cook who comes in every day!