Meaning of languageness | Babel Free

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The quality of being a language.

uncountable

Examples

“The issue of the languageness of the languages of art clears, moreover, if we turn from the aboutness of language to the special entityness of verbal-linguistic things, which, like art things, are entities just by virtue of being inferred as such from aspects of concreta filtered through a syntax and a semantics.”

“Much has been written about Synthetic Scots (e.g., McClure 1990; Purves 1997; Hart 2010), which was in effect an attempt at standardizing the vernacular in order to confer attributes of languageness upon it and make it appropriate for literary usage.”

“The most recent research suggests that many animal species do have a kind of "languageness" that is not exactly like human language, but which is not necessarily simpler or less successful as a communicative code.”

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