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 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."
Archaeologist Bruce Bourque sought help from a linguist to have them translated.
His friendships with the likes of writer and critic Georges Bataille, philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty, anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, and linguist Roman Jakobson were formative in ways that he either fails to note or misleadingly acknowledges.
Unfortunately, there has not been a good (bookwriting) linguist who was also a good writer of expository prose since Otto Jespersen, the Santayana of linguistics, and he died in 1943.
The author, a linguist, is often obscure, though it is impossible to know whether that is her fault or her translator's.