Sentence examples for principles of linguistic from inspiring English sources

One of the more recent attempts to classify all the African languages, prepared by the American linguist Joseph Greenberg, is based on the principles of linguistic analysis used for Indo-European languages rather than on geographic, ethnic, or other nonlinguistic criteria.

Sitting nearby was Josh Armstrong, 30, a doctoral student at Rutgers University who was reading a book called "Principles of Linguistic Change".

The principle of linguistic relativity is sometimes called the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, or Whorfianism, after the linguist who made it famous, Benjamin Lee Whorf.

My bias against the principle of linguistic relativity is personal, influenced by my other general beliefs about the world.

Call this the the principle of linguistic constraint.

Richard's view is thus consistent with the principle of linguistic constraint.

In doing so they began a line of empirical studies that investigated the principle of linguistic relativity.

Whorf is best known as the main proponent of what he called the principle of linguistic relativity, but which is often known as "the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis", named for him and Edward Sapir.

This principle has frequently been called the "Sapir–Whorf hypothesis", after him and his mentor Edward Sapir, but Whorf called it the principle of linguistic relativity, because he saw the idea as having implications similar to Einstein's principle of physical relativity.

Principles of socio-linguistic conversation analysis and documentary method [ 51] will be applied, – based on the reconstruction of the sequential order of the discussion, to draw special attention to sequences in which participants show a high commitment (i.e. overlapping contributions of several participants) or in periods of silence within the group discussion.

Far from being a betrayal of Q's founding principles, such instances of linguistic bad faith are entirely in keeping with them.