linguistic entity
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflinguisticandentity
These words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or,see other collocations withentity.
linguistic
adjective
uk/lɪŋˈɡwɪs.tɪk/us/lɪŋˈɡwɪs.tɪk/
connected with language or the study ...
See more atlinguistic
entity
noun[C]
uk/ˈen.tɪ.ti/us/ˈen.t̬ə.t̬i/
something that exists apart from other things, having its own ...
See more atentity
(Definition oflinguisticandentityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoflinguistic entity
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
Of particular interest is the fact that the linguistic behaviour of loanwords is influenced by the citation form, as a distinctlinguisticentity.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Every candidate is a well-formedlinguisticentity.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Hence, the function above plays the role of alinguisticentity: if it is interpreted in a certain way, it constitutes a claim about a subject.
From theCambridge English Corpus
This makes the over-readiness to identify predicates as linguistic entities understandable.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Observations that distinct linguistic entities tend to maintain maximal perceptual distance are frequent in the literature.
From theCambridge English Corpus
These categories are psychological rather than linguistic entities.
From theCambridge English Corpus
However, it seems redundant to assume such separate linguistic entities.
From theCambridge English Corpus
So the only cards that will count as linguistic entities are the diamonds.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Vision researchers use the term "semantic" with no sense of a relation involving linguistic entities.
From theCambridge English Corpus
This is quite distinct from models where the constructions are real linguistic entities.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Such comparative studies focus on firstorder cognitive and linguistic entities such as early distinctions between nouns and verbs, temporal and spatial notions, or encoding of transitivity values.
From theCambridge English Corpus
There is a world of theoretical difference between the meanings of the verbs, which are linguistic entities, and the meanings of the concepts, which are their nonlinguistic counterparts.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Most importantly, a distinction is made between the "definition" of a term and the "identification" of corresponding linguistic entities in given idiolect systems.
From
Wikipedia
Nebel understood characters or runes as independent linguistic entities whose sound or acoustic and visual dimensions were the key part of an artwork.
From
Wikipedia
When the objects of discussion are linguistic entities... then that collection of entities may vary as a result of discussion about them.
From
Wikipedia
It is a nominalist approach that denies that natural kinds and linguistic entities have substantive ontological implications.
From
Wikipedia
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
Want to learn more?
Go to the definition oflinguistic
Go to the definition ofentity
See other collocations withentity