I started to become furious about small linguistic matters, such as cliches, and wildly judgmental about them.
An alternative possibility is that certain types of physical environment, such as the Eurasian steppes, favour language spread and differentiation, whereas other types, such as the mountainous zones, favour the proliferation of small linguistic communities, regardless of technology.
These are the smallest linguistic expressions that are conventionally associated with a non-compositional meaning and can be uttered in isolation to convey semantic content.
Human languages rely on numerous morphological processes to alter meaning, one prominent example being affixation, the addition of a morpheme (the smallest linguistic unit that has semantic meaning), to a word stem (the part of the word that never changes), as for instance in the English word 'brother-hood' [6].
To adapt the instrument to 18/19 year olds, some small linguistic changes were made in the follow-up questionnaire in accordance with the approved Norwegian translation.
ANYONE interested in doing business in the region that used to be called Yugoslavia might be tempted not to bother on the ground that its successor states were all very small, obsessed with minor linguistic and cultural differences, and generally not worth the effort.A few years ago this might have been true, but now things have changed.
Our model explains the results of Constant et al. (2009a), showing that ex-Yugoslavs, who had a smaller cultural (linguistic) distance from Germany than Turks, Greeks, Italians or Spaniards, assimilated better.
Consequently, small clarifying linguistic revisions were made for the third questionnaire test.
First, linguists are often intensely interested in small details of linguistic form in their own right.
This is a book about the imagination's small reclamations of linguistic property seized by colonial power.
