Example sentences for: linguists

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

  • Not only the meanings of words and the meanings of sentences, as most linguists define sentence meanings, but also the appropriateness of the uses of sentences, the functions carried out by sentences, and numerous other facets of what we call “meaning” have been proposed as part of the native speaker's linguistic knowledge.

  • The hybrids they denote may be mocked, denounced, enjoyed, or ignored by teachers, linguists, and the media, but regardless of censure or praise they just steamroller on.

  • To a subject that is treated in the most turgid fashion by linguists and with unusually irresponsible scholarship by many other commentators, Bill Safire brings just the right, literate, human touch, often funny, ever lively, and always friendly, informative, and entertaining.

  • Because linguists are atrociously bad writers, in most cases, this would be a merciful deliverance from the agony of wading through their texts at first hand were it not for the unfortunate fact that Andersen is a pretty boring writer himself.

  • But some very clever comparative linguists, beginning in Germany in the 19th century, theorized about how the nature of the ancestors of the more modern tongues.


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