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Recent Examples of linguistic form
And comparing more recent historic forms of English and Sranan to get at centuries-old linguistic forms isn’t ironclad, Creanza pointed out.
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Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 14 Mar. 2018
Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 14 Mar. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for linguistic form
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Tam argues that these speech forms are not just dialects but distinct languages, as different from one another as many of the languages spoken in Europe.Gina Anne Tam, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2021
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This system frees up space for speeches to be more interesting, as seen in Sheryl Lee Ralph’s musical interpolation of the acceptance-speech form.Vulture, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2022
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And so, while the two talked at and around Andy Warhol and to each other, Warhol sat with his tiny dachshund, Archie Bunker, in his lap and snapped the reporters’ pictures with his new Polaroid camera, answering direct questions with shrugs or vague monosyllables.Stephen Birmingham, Town & Country, 10 Aug. 2023
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Hearing this jab of monosyllables is like being poked in the eye.Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2023
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The 47-year-old Simon, a BART board member since 2016, will enter her first congressional term in the wake of the Democratic Party’s disastrous losses in last week’s election.Chase Hunter, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
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Two days after the nation’s voters gave Donald Trump another term as president, Gov. Gavin Newsom staged a publicity stunt to position California — and presumably himself — as the epicenter of resistance.Dan Walters, Orange County Register, 9 Nov. 2024
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“Linguistic form.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/linguistic%20form. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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