Sentence examples for universal linguistic from inspiring English sources

Thus, in contrast to Gongsun Long, their investigations were not aimed at establishing a universal linguistic system that could unify divergent models of language application.

The theory does not posit universal linguistic categories or structures for language; rather it provides a road map for identifying, describing and profiling categories and structures of particular languages, or any number of languages, in a systematic manner.

Despite mixing up Strax with the cast of Snow White, Doctor somehow has full grasp of his universal linguistic skills which he uses to flirt his way into the dinosaur's graces, keeping the latter from chowing down on the British parliament.

Revisiting language universals and linguistic relativity: language-relative construal of individuation constrained by universal ontology.

It is believed that there is a certain universal cross-linguistic particularity behind emotions [57].

In this regard, Osgood (1966: 301 302) emphasised the need to distinguish between two kinds of universals in linguistic research as follows: U 1. Phenotypes: empirical generalizations that hold for all languages.

Since its first publication, Language Universals and Linguistic Typology has become established as the leading introductory account of one of the most productive areas of linguistics the analysis, comparison, and classification of the common features and forms of the organization of languages.

Noting their emphasis on linguistic universals, the contemporary linguist Noam Chomsky called the Port-Royal group the first transformational grammarians.

Pereira, F. et al. Toward a universal decoder of linguistic meaning from brain activation.

The innate mental structure that equips a child to interact successfully with the world includes more than the universal grammar of linguistic syntax postulated by Noam Chomsky.

That, to be honest, might be pushing it, but what Moran does have in performance is an acute eye for the universal and a linguistic precision that verges on the poetic.