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Example sentences for: linguist

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

The way he speaks reminds me of something I once read about the linguist Myrna Gopnik and her work on what I believe she calls "Family K." Although otherwise normally intelligent, members of Family K stumble over basic grammar, coming up with sentences like, "The boys eat four cookie."
Casanova was a highly intelligent man and a competent linguist.
)? Identified by early feminist linguist Robin Lakoff, women's frequent use of tag endings has been both discounted by some but not all empirical studies and re-examined by other studies that distinguish different kinds of tag endings used by men and women.
Surely there must be a teaching linguist out there, somewhere, capable of putting together a cogent, readable text that discusses not only the field of linguistics but its various theories and their interrelations.
The choice between the prevailing theory and Renfrew's depends on whether one accepts a “wave” theory, first promulgated more than a hundred years ago by Johnanes Schmidt, a German linguist, or one of indigenous development.