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* If a language is head-initial ( like English ), it will have prepositional phrases ; if and only if it is head-final ( like Japanese ) will it have post-positional phrases.
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If Russian pupils have to take these languages, how come American students have a choice whether or not to take a language, but have to face so many exceptions??
If the Czech ethnic origin was to be stressed, combinations like " Bohemian of Bohemian language "( Čech českého jazyka ), " a real Bohemian " ( pravý Čech ) etc.
If the possibility of adding the empty string to a language is added to the strings recognized by the noncontracting grammars ( which can never include the empty string ) then the languages in these two definitions are identical.
If these two features of the language coincide too frequently, they overemphasize each other and the hexameter becomes sing-songy.
If someone sees something completely different than another, our language prevents us from acknowledging the other's point of view by limiting our perception to fixed states.
* If the entire language does not allow side-effects, then any evaluation strategy can be used ; this gives the compiler freedom to reorder or combine the evaluation of expressions in a program ( for example, using deforestation ).
If Language A borrowed a word from Language B, or both borrowed the word from a third language or inherited it from a common ancestor, and later the word shifted in meaning or acquired additional meanings in at least one of these languages, a native speaker of one language will face a false friend when learning the other.
If the facts are related, this would be a unique case of a tradition that endured for more than a thousand years and that actually pre-dates most of the major splits in the Germanic language family.
# If the borrowed word happens to have a suffix that the borrowing language uses as a gender marker, the suffix tends to dictate gender.
If V is a formal language, then V < sub > i </ sub >, the i-th power of the set V, is a shorthand for the concatenation of set V with itself i times.
If negation is cyclic and "∨" is a " max operator ", then the law can be expressed in the object language by ( P ∨ ~ P ∨ ~~ P ∨ ... ∨ ~...~ P ), where "~...~" represents n − 1 negation signs and "∨ ... ∨" n − 1 disjunction signs.
If such a language existed, Zamenhof postulated, it could play the role of a neutral communication tool between people of different ethnic and linguistic backgrounds.
If something was already there with no conflict, he used it without changes in language, he reordered and ruled on where there was conflict, and clarified where context was not given.
If a model for a language moreover satisfies a particular sentence or theory ( set of sentences satisfying special conditions ), it is called a model of the sentence or theory.
If they express much more than this, they are usually considered to be a hardware description language such as Verilog, VHDL, or any one of several specific languages designed for input to simulators.
If a language uses multiple writing systems, it may have distinct orthographies, as is the case with Kurdish, Uyghur, Serbian, Inuktitut and Turkish.
It is this emphasis on becoming attentive to the social backdrop against which language is rendered intelligible that explains Wittgenstein's elliptical comment that " If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.
If the assumption of a " Proto-Human " language is accepted, its date may be set anywhere between 200, 000 years ago ( the age of Homo sapiens ) and 50, 000 years ago ( the age of behavioral modernity ).
Many of his stories, such as Gulf, If This Goes On —, and Stranger in a Strange Land, depend strongly on the premise, related to the well-known Sapir – Whorf hypothesis, that by using a correctly designed language, one can change or improve oneself mentally, or even realize untapped potential ( as in the case of Joe Green in Gulf ).
Klement returned his bicycle to the manufacturers, Seidel and Naumann, with a letter, in Czech, asking them to carry out repairs, only to receive a reply, in German, stating: " If you would like an answer to your inquiry, you should try writing in a language we can understand ".
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If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.
If a work is divided into several large segments, a last-minute drawing of random numbers may determine the order of the segments for any particular performance.
If Wilhelm Reich is the Moses who has led them out of the Egypt of sexual slavery, Dylan Thomas is the poet who offers them the Dionysian dialectic of justification for their indulgence in liquor, marijuana, sex, and jazz.
If he is the child of nothingness, if he is the predestined victim of an age of atomic wars, then he will consult only his own organic needs and go beyond good and evil.
If he thus achieves a lyrical, dreamlike, drugged intensity, he pays the price for his indulgence by producing work -- Allen Ginsberg's `` Howl '' is a striking example of this tendency -- that is disoriented, Dionysian but without depth and without Apollonian control.
If love reflects the nature of man, as Ortega Y Gasset believes, if the person in love betrays decisively what he is by his behavior in love, then the writers of the beat generation are creating a new literary genre.
If the existent form is to be retained new factors that reinforce it must be introduced into the situation.
If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??
If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.
If our sincerity is granted, and it is granted, the discrepancy can only be explained by the fact that we have come to believe hearsay and legend about ourselves in preference to an understanding gained by earnest self-examination.
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