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• Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time — [http://books.google.com/books?id=hrT xNaDkgQC printsec=frontcover Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time] (University of Chicago Press, 1992) is linguist Johanna Nichols s best known work, pioneering the use of linguistic typology as a tool for… …   Wikipedia

• Linguistic typology — is a subfield of linguistics that studies and classifies languages according to their structural features. Its aim is to describe and explain the structural diversity of the world s languages. It includes three subdisciplines: qualitative… …   Wikipedia

• Linguistic demography — is the statistical study of languages among all populations. Estimating the number of speakers of a given language is not straightforward, and various estimates may diverge considerably. This is first of all due to the question of defining… …   Wikipedia

• Linguistic prescription — Linguistics …   Wikipedia

• Linguistic relativism — is the idea that language shapes thought and experience. i.e. differences in language lead to differences in the way one understands the world around him or her. It is an idea inferred from Linguistic determinism, and subject in the Sapir Whorf… …   Wikipedia

• Linguistic relativity — Anthropology Fields Archaeology Biological anthropology Cultural anthropology Linguistic anthropology Social anthropology …   Wikipedia

• diversity — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ considerable, enormous, extraordinary, great, immense, remarkable, rich, tremendous, wide ▪ There is need for g …   Collocations dictionary

• linguistic policy and legislation —    One of the most distinctive features of post Franco Spain is its emergence as a decentralized and plurilingual country after a period during which severe, albeit lessening, repression of minority languages was exercised in the interests of… …   Encyclopedia of contemporary Spanish culture

• diversity — di|ver|si|ty [daıˈvə:sıti, dı US ə:r ] n 1.) [U] the fact of including many different types of people or things cultural/ethnic/linguistic etc diversity ▪ The curriculum will take account of the ethnic diversity of the population. 2.) [singular]… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• Linguistic issues concerning the euro — Several linguistic issues have arisen in relation to the spelling of the words euro and cent in the many languages of the member states of the European Union, as well as in relation to grammar and the formation of plurals.The official ruling is… …   Wikipedia

• linguistic — adj. Linguistic is used with these nouns: ↑ability, ↑analysis, ↑anthropology, ↑background, ↑competence, ↑complexity, ↑construction, ↑development, ↑diversity, ↑expression, ↑invention …   Collocations dictionary