Adam, I used to think that being the English language's greatest writer was the highest honour a man could aspire to. |
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When ablaut is a regular feature of a language's grammar, it is often called vowel gradation. |
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Every barbarian language had an equivalent term, and all of them were based on a derivative of that language's word for fury. |
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The graphically crisp, retro lettering style adds a whiff of nostalgia to this evocation of language's reflexive capacity. |
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First, the relatedness of forms will serve to structure the language's lexical resources. |
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Each is at once elitist and popular, adept at serio-comically pressing the limits of the Spanish language's expressivity. |
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The sign emerges at the conjunction of the signified and the signifier, both of which are in parole, or a language's concrete properties. |
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The first three were easy to distinguish, thanks to the Portuguese language's descriptive suffixes. |
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Sun has extended the language's complex shapes and drawings above and beyond the basic primitives. |
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The phenomenon of deixis has been taken to be the clearest single example of language's embeddedness in context. |
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The language's highly flexible syntax and concise regular expression operators, make densely written PERL code indecipherable to the uninitiated. |
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There are several examples of ancient families or subfamilies being splintered and partially overlain by other groups expanding into the older language's territory. |
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Knowing the words is not important to their hearers, but few conlangers yet have that outlet, and must rely on text and graphs to give a sense of their language's structure. |
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Sometimes there may be variation in a language's orthography, as between American and British spelling in the case of English orthography. |
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More than just a simple terminology dictionary, TALK THE TALK offers a history of language's modern evolution. |
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Since 2005, the SFA have supported the use of Scottish Gaelic on their teams' strip in recognition of the language's revival in Scotland. |
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The Colonial Decree of 1684 banning the use of Konkani was another blow to the language's survival. |
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Loan translations and semantic extensions are used extensively as a way of using the language's own resources rather than borrowing. |
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Grammatical person typically defines a language's set of personal pronouns. |
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Consonant clusters occurring in loanwords do not necessarily follow the cluster limits set by the borrowing language's phonotactics. |
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By the middle of the 15th century, the language's name had changed from Inglis to Scottis. |
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Since 2005, the SFA have supported the use of Scottish Gaelic on the national team's strip in recognition of the language's revival in Scotland. |
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In 1952, the Bengali Language Movement successfully pushed for the language's official status in the Dominion of Pakistan. |
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In the absence of Lombardic texts, it is not possible to draw any conclusions about the language's morphology and syntax. |
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While the language's grammatical base is from K'iche', its lexicon is supplied by Kaqchikel. |
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On the other hand, some moderate nationalists have been reluctant to use Irish too due to the negative connotations associated with the language's use. |
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This in turn contributed to the language's continued use as a means of everyday communication down to the present day, despite the pressure of English. |
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Languages vary greatly in the restrictions on the sounds making up the onset, nucleus and coda of a syllable, according to what is termed a language's phonotactics. |
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Some English loanwords remain relatively faithful to the donor language's phonology even though a particular phoneme might not exist or have contrastive status in English. |
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The language's early forms include Old French and Middle French. |
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Many verse forms have been used in epic poems through the ages, but each language's literature typically gravitates to one form, or at least to a very limited set. |
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A language's influence widens as its speakers grow in power. |
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