"functional" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Finally, another very important general motivation for the recent merest in pragmatics is the possibility that significant functional explanations can be offered for linguistic facts.
- It is important, therefore, that there be sufficiently well-defined pragmatic principles and structures to make such functional explanations precise and testable.
- The concept of implicature, therefore, seems to offer some significant functional explanations of linguistic facts.
- The authors did not provide any functional explanation of these observations.
- This is far from the 'functional explanation' later impugned by Carl Hempel and others.
- Mr. Batra's functional explanation of his cyclical forecast is less than realistic.
- "Nativist and functional explanations in language acquisition."
- Hurford, J. (1990) Nativist and functional explanations in language acquisition.
- First, although it may be true that functional explanations of the kind he discusses remain incomplete until we understand the mechanisms which sustain them, they may nevertheless be explanatory.
- Biology is already reduced (mostly via functional explanation), and psychology looks promising.
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