Example sentences for: coulmas

How can you use “coulmas” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • I have already simplified Coulmas's description out of all sensible recognition for the sake of brevity, but, while the time compression has been severe, I do not think I have distorted the facts.

  • There are other arguments for preserving spelling mentioned by Coulmas, among them: paradigmatic similarity (e.g.

  • In his description of writing systems Coulmas adopts the designations applied by W. Haas, namely, pleremic to describe the lexemic/morphemic level and cenemic to describe the syllabic/ phonetic/phonemic level.

  • 195] [The quotation is from one of Coulmas's many sources.

  • As Coulmas points out, the alphabet is far from perfect; but were we to institute a “simplified” spelling system we would be destroying the very unity that the written language accords to the many millions around the globe who can read English.


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