Sentence examples for science of languages from inspiring English sources
"If you look at modern hunter-gatherers, they are almost all multilingual," says Thomas Bak, a cognitive neurologist who studies the science of languages at the University of Edinburgh.
It looks at the structure and science of language and the common thread behind languages.
He also wrote general linguistic works, including the Introduction to the Science of Language, 2 vol. (1880).
He is a professor at Harvard and a prolific author, with bestsellers on how the mind works (the title of one of his two Pulitzer-nominated books) and the science of language.
His take on language was that it is something to be policed rather than observed, a direct hit on what the science of language is all about.
More specifically: One of the main goals of the science of language is the determination and description of linguistic kinships and speech trunks.
The idea of deconstructing the science of language would have struck Thomas as absurd, of course, though he probably would have felt some affinity with the highly variegated notion of the sign in modern semiotics.
At other times he has rejected Putnam's intuitions about reference as highly idiosyncratic folk intuitions with no role to play in a natural science of language (Chomsky 1995).
Schleicher read Darwin's work and replied to it in the same year (1863) with a work entitled Die Darwinische Theorie und die Sprachwissenschaft (Darwin's Theory and the Science of Language).
It is altogether unacceptable to Marty to regard philosophy of language as distinct from the science of language, as if they were two endeavors concerned with one and the same subject matter and yet differing in their methods (Marty 1908a: 4 f).
It is a classic contribution to the science of language, developing on Greenberg (1966b) and research in functional language typology ever since.3 He draws linguistic data from systemic language descriptions since the 1960's and mainly from research in other functional traditions such as WCF, FDG and RRG.
