Example sentences for: linguist

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

  • (As a linguist friend of mine once wearily conceded, Everything depends on the context.)

  • As we have observed in these pages on numerous occasions, the professional linguist's avowed position with regard to usage is similar to that of a medical doctor's in relation to a patient: both are charged with the responsibility of observing the phenomena they encounter without expressing qualitative opinions about them.

  • 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.

  • From the cover: [P]rovides a clear, easily understood course in statistics for the linguist who works with real linguistic data from real subjects and converts those finding into numbers.

  • The Feminist Critique of Language brings together a wide range of views and approaches to its subject, ranging from the conservative linguist Otto Jespersen and the author Virginia Woolf writing in the 1920s to contemporary critics.


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