Sentence examples for structures of language from inspiring English sources

Both speaking and writing depend upon the underlying structures of language.

In The Language Instinct, Pinker developed Noam Chomsky's notion that the basic structures of language are hardwired into the brain.

His work often reflects a characteristic mix of good-hearted common sense and an elaborate private fascination with the inner structures of language and morality.

In Paris he engaged in tumultuous activities with André Breton, Philippe Soupault, and Louis Aragon to shock the public and to disintegrate the structures of language.

The general thrust of pure semiotics is a kind of linguistics-based social theory; if language shapes our thought, and our thought shapes our culture, then if we are looking for a master key to make sense of culture, it makes sense to start with the fundamental structures of language itself: signs, symbols, metaphors, narrative devices, figures of speech.

Some hold that Aristotle's list was arrived at by reflecting on grammatical categories, and assuming a parallelism between structures of language and structures of the world (Baumer 1993).

Although the grammatical structures of languages like Chinese and Arabic make them hard to analyze statistically, he said, it will only be a matter of time before such hurdles are overcome.

Syntax, basic to the structure of language, seemed be a uniquely human faculty.

They never got to learn the beauty and shape and structure of language".

For example, it turns out that the high-pitched sing-song voice all adults use when talking to babies makes the sound structure of language particularly clear.

She proposed that bodily drives are discharged in language and that the structure of language is already operating in the body.