It is obviously desirable that the underlying description should be as good as possible, and this means that it should be based on sound linguistic principles.

He supported the linguistic principles of the Zagreb school of philology and promoted Croatian linguistic purism.

"We do not regard the linguistic principle as the sole criterion for territorial readjustments, particularly in the areas where the majority commanded by a language group is only marginal".

Meaning-laden utterances would now have become subject to a distinctively linguistic creative principle - that of recursive embedding.

Barthes's The Fashion System exemplifies this linguistic principle in its attempt to read the grammar of fashion.

This distinction he relates to the linguistic principles of Noam Chomsky's Universal Grammar.

Wall was trained as a linguist, and the design of Perl is very much informed by linguistic principles.

"He learned rudimentary Chinese quickly because he can apply linguistic principles from the languages he knows to a new language."

His attempted decipherments were based on ideographic rather than linguistic principles, and he was a staunch critic of all attempts to propose phonetic readings, .

The classical "Three Laws of Thought" are the three fundamental linguistic principles without which there could be no intelligible communication.