linguistic form

collocation in English

meaningsoflinguisticandform

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linguistic
adjective
uk
/lɪŋˈɡwɪs.tɪk/us
/lɪŋˈɡwɪs.tɪk/
connected with language or the study ...
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form
noun
uk
/fɔːm/us
/fɔːrm/
a paper or set of papers printed with spaces in which answers to questions can be written or information can be recorded in an ...
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(Definition oflinguisticandformfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoflinguistic form

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Narrativity is a type of discourse with which temporal existence, temporality in existence, is transformed into alinguisticform.
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Who can talk aboutlinguisticformto whom?
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In other words, the function that alinguisticformserves crucially determines how this form will be acquired and used.
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However, it could be argued that frequent attention tolinguisticformin two languages should support the explication of linguistic structure, such as grammar(s).
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We than examined effects of page type andlinguisticform.
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There is, however, little evidence that 'intuition about meaning' is at all useful in the actual investigation oflinguisticform.
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First, a givenlinguisticform, in addition to its core sense, acquires an additional sense in a specific context.
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Spontaneous data can be very informative but the researcher cannot control the contexts in which a particularlinguisticformwill appear.
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In doing so, children must represent the relationship betweenlinguisticformand what it represents.
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The child's use of alinguisticformis similar to that of adults at the end of this phase.
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This is necessarily the case, since encoded meaning is by definition just that which is conveyed by a givenlinguisticform, irrespective of context.
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Unaccusatives are also areas where interesting interplays betweenlinguisticformand function can be observed.
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This illocutionary indirectness is, in fact, only one way in which alinguisticformdoes not match its canonical use.
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But to what extent do these differences in negotiation lead to differences in noticing, or in a focus onlinguisticform?
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This representation is either constructed on the basis of a word'slinguisticformor, in the case of familiar words, retrieved from memory.
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That is, the intrinsic content of alinguisticform, such as a sentence, is taken to be regularly - perhaps always - sub-propositional.
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The point is that, regardless of the outcome, such elaborations necessarily entail an explication oflinguisticform.
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This would allow onelinguisticformto be optimal in a relative sense but nonoptimal in an absolute sense.
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In this area alinguisticformoccurs that is found in no other part of the city.
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Does one notice morelinguisticformwhen one's interlocutor is a teacher, as opposed to when the interlocutor is a student?
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