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Example sentences for: linguistics

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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.
William Labov, a professor of linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of an early study, The Social Stratification of English in New York (1966), has been arguing for years that, whatever its original sources, the language of poor, urban blacks is becoming ever more divergent from that of other Americans, as de facto racial segregation and social isolation become the permanent lot of a vast subgroup of African Americans.
Spirit Pond Runestones, A Study in Linguistics
There is a miscellaneous Bibliography, which seems to include every linguistics book and article the author has ever read, and a pitifully poor Index, containing about seventy items.
Had it been more complete and better done, the book might have served as a survey text for linguistics, a work that is sorely needed.