Sentence examples for old linguistic from inspiring English sources

There's an old linguistic concept called deep structures which suggested that the foundation of a language are formed very early within the brain.

"Languages evolve over hundreds of years, and the artistry of naturalistic language creation comes from simulating this, emulating that evolution, often by analysing how old linguistic forms evolved.

Officials fear that Mr. Veerappan's demands could inflame old linguistic and cultural antagonisms between the Tamil-speaking minority and the Kannada-speaking majority in Karnataka, for whom the Kannada-speaking actor, Mr. Rajkumar, is a mythic figure.

With the issue of local control bridging Quebec's age-old linguistic and cultural divides, 5,000 people braved the first blast of winter to protest forced mergers in front of the provincial assembly in Quebec City.

"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".

This is Michael Gove's contribution to 10- and 11-year-olds' linguistic skills.

But he is not motivated by the sort of aggrieved conservatism that characterises so many older linguistic commentators.

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Yet old animosities, linguistic differences between Anglo- and Francophone troops, and rampant theft and incompetence mean this will have a limited effect.

Today, in an age of nasty civil wars, trials that focus on individual guilt can have the side effect of revealing how often such conflicts are not, as advertised, fought out of old ethnic, linguistic, cultural or religious hatreds, but because a political leader has deliberately inflamed such tensions for political gain.

That may be what is most striking looking at the old columns, both linguistic and political, now.