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- noun Plural form of
sublanguage .
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Predicates suitable as truth predicates for sublanguages of the language of arithmetic can be defined within the language of arithmetic, as long as the quantificational complexity of the formulas in the sublanguage is restricted.
Axiomatic Theories of Truth Halbach, Volker 2007
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In §4 an argument is sketched which shows that most “infinite quantifier” languages have a second-order nature and are, ipso facto, highly incomplete. §5 provides a brief account of a certain special class of sublanguages of infinitary languages for which a satisfactory generalization of the compactness theorem can be proved.
Infinitary Logic Bell, John L. 2006
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But speakers of a major language such as English have at least some faint shadow of this through their access to a number of literary sublanguages such as Welsh English, Scots, Indian English, British, American, Australian, and other varieties of English.
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Like other languages, they are diverse, consisting of a number of sublanguages -- technical, regional, and of varying formality.
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But where the unbroken endurance of English has come from its plasticity, we’ve seen how Latin “survived” rather differently, by becoming an unregulated, unstandardized language, and thus by splintering into sublanguages.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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But where the unbroken endurance of English has come from its plasticity, we’ve seen how Latin “survived” rather differently, by becoming an unregulated, unstandardized language, and thus by splintering into sublanguages.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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