Words similar to linguist

Example sentences for: linguist

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

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.
The most important contribution to comparative linguistics was made by Sir William Jones (1746-94), a British linguist trained in the law who was appointed judge of the supreme court of judicature at Calcutta, in 1783.
Although he is not a professional linguist, Bill knows a great deal about language and, notwithstanding some of the comments he makes in his column, is very sensitive to it.
' Another entry under L is Laadan , a language constructed by linguist Suzette Hayden Elgin and first used in her science fiction novel Native Tongue , a language which is designed to contain many “woman function” words not included in English.
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.