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Definition of Linguistic unit
1. Noun. One of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzed.
Specialized synonyms: Discourse, Word, Syllable, Lexeme, Morpheme, Formative, Name, Collocation, Phone, Sound, Speech Sound, Sign
Group relationships: String
Generic synonyms: Component, Component Part, Constituent, Part, Portion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Linguistic Unit
Literary usage of Linguistic unit
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"It is with linguistic unit; precisely as it is with political unity, and for the
sac; reasons. Before the attainment of civilization the ..."
2. Report of the 1st-22d Annual Lake Mohonk Conference on International (1916)
"A nation is not a linguistic unit, though it should be said at the start that
language is a most significant national characteristic. ..."
3. Lectures on the Study of Language by Hanns Oertel (1901)
"... like all other linguistic changes, in the great majority of the members of a
linguistic unit did not arise organically, nor are they original with them, ..."
4. The Races of Man: An Outline of Anthropology and Ethnography by Joseph Deniker (1900)
"... moreover, in process of extinction as a linguistic unit; their language gives
place to Italian in the Tyrol, to German in Switzerland. ..."
5. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1907)
"On the other hand, supposing the interests to remain the same, the attitude
embodied in the use of the term, sentence, or other linguistic unit, may be not ..."
6. The Mind of Primitive Man: A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Lowell by Franz Boas (1911)
"... said that all over the world the biological unit — disregarding minute local
differences — is much larger than the linguistic unit; in other words, ..."
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