Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word non-linguistic.
Examples
-
Each other is a reciprocal pronoun that requires a plural antecedent, or in non-linguistic terms, whoever each other refers to has to be plural.
-
Each other is a reciprocal pronoun that requires a plural antecedent, or in non-linguistic terms, whoever each other refers to has to be plural.
Singular “they” and the many reasons why it’s correct « Motivated Grammar 2009
-
So long as the word is used in an "average" trademark use context, a word mark's semantic meaning is shown to be overshadowed by the non-linguistic, contextual markers that establish its distinctiveness as a source indicator.
Archive 2009-01-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
-
A weaker version merely suggests that language influences thought and certain non-linguistic behaviours.
June « 2010 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2010
-
But these arguments say fairly little about what these universals might be like -- they could be very linguistically-specific (e.g., X' theory) or they could be fairly general, e.g., some kind of non-linguistic inductive principle might be key (Chomsky dubbed it "discrete infinity", if I recall correctly -- what a horrible name).
Do Language Universals Exist? GamesWithWords 2010
-
So you'd probably want some non-linguistic task that you'd get wrong if you aren't paying careful attention.
1/3 of Americans can't speak? GamesWithWords 2010
-
With new sensitivity to the possible richness of social interactions in an entirely non-linguistic world, all of these once ordinary activities now seemed to me to be an untapped font of information.
INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009
-
Most of us here are practicing translators or readers of translation rather than theorists, and I thought it might be interesting to hear from someone who has delved into the sociological and non-linguistic aspects of the activity that keeps us so busy.
Archive 2009-06-01 Eric Dickens 2009
-
Yet in order to assert this one has to stand in a view from no-where, since we manifestly always already mediate our apprhension through language and concepts what would it mean to have a non-linguistic apprhension of something?
-
With new sensitivity to the possible richness of social interactions in an entirely non-linguistic world, all of these once ordinary activities now seemed to me to be an untapped font of information.
INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.