This implies two criteria of relevance for the selection of stylistic features: a literary criterion and a linguistic criterion.

A further distinction can be made based on linguistic criteria.

Through linguistic criteria a number of conclusions can be drawn.

Joe read aloud from a textbook about how experts divide the world into regions, based on political, linguistic and other criteria.

The use of a term to refer to the eastern area of Aragon bordering Catalonia as based on linguistic criteria is recent.

Their number is unknown, given the absence of sub-nationality status and the discouragement of linguistic criteria in census-taking.

Ethnicity on the other hand is a system that classifies groups of people according to cultural, linguistic and historic criteria.

Using anthropological rather than linguistic criteria, Alb.

Mutual intelligibility is the linguistic criterion used to distinguish languages from dialects.

The status of language is not solely determined by linguistic criteria, but it is also the result of a historical and political development.