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  • noun computing, linguistics A subset of a language

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sub- +‎ language

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Examples

  • In a 1949 New Yorker article, John Davenport labeled this kind of sublanguage with the delightfully appropriate name "Slurvian."

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 2 1987

  • Predicates suitable as truth predicates for sublanguages of the language of arithmetic can be defined within the language of arithmetic, as long as the quantificational complexity of the formulas in the sublanguage is restricted.

    Axiomatic Theories of Truth Halbach, Volker 2007

  • L² but of any language of which L² is a sublanguage.

    Relative Identity Deutsch, Harry 2007

  • If we take seriously the idea that change involves the application of incompatible predicates, then the sublanguage cannot express the contrast between old Oscar and young Oscar.

    Relative Identity Deutsch, Harry 2007

  • Geach makes the additional claim that the ontological commitments of a sublanguage L² of a language L are inherited by L (Geach 1973).

    Relative Identity Deutsch, Harry 2007

  • And it is true that these predicates determine a sublanguage in which the same dog relation is a congruence, i.e. no predicate of the sublanguage distinguishes x from y, if x and y are the same dog.

    Relative Identity Deutsch, Harry 2007

  • Consider any sublanguage for which any one of these equivalence relations is a congruence, i.e. for which LL² holds.

    Relative Identity Deutsch, Harry 2007

  • What purpose does it serve to create a sublanguage for guidelines instead of using plain English?

    Timing..revisited Miss Snark 2005

  • I propose a new sublanguage, 'Ozbonics', to combat the rise of ebonics in the world.

    phluid61 Diary Entry phluid61 2005

  • Try to forget you ever heard the words "imperative sublanguage".

    Netvouz - new bookmarks cduret 2010

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