Linguists have not always been more enlightened than `` practical people '' and sometimes have insisted on incredibly trivial points while neglecting things of much greater significance.

Linguists have had a hard time establishing the precise relationship of the Baltic languages to other languages in the Indo-European family.

Linguists have found that, while humans form sentences in ways apparently governed by very complex systems, they are remarkably unaware of the rules that govern their own speech.

Linguists who have been active in this field are Jennifer Jenkins, Barbara Seidlhofer, Christiane Meierkord and Joachim Grzega.

Linguists tend to eschew this term, but historically some have reserved the term joual for the variant of Quebec French spoken in Montreal.

Linguists have an incomplete understanding of all aspects of the rules underlying natural languages, and these rules are therefore objects of study.

Linguists have reconstructed the word taniwha to Proto-Oceanic * tanifa, with the meaning " shark species ".

Linguists have approximated that the precursor to the language of the Huastecs diverged from the Proto-Mayan language between 2200 and 1200 BCE.

Linguists have been documenting Shelta since at least the 1870s, with the first works published in 1880 and 1882 by Charles Leland.

Linguists have made significant effort toward defining the difference between borrowing ( loanword usage ) and code-switching ; generally, borrowing occurs in the lexicon, while code-switching occurs at either the syntax level or the utterance-construction level.

Linguists have associated the word with the root / wel, as in / halískomai, " to be captured, to be made prisoner.

Linguists working on Tungusic have proposed a number of different classifications based on different criteria, including morphological, lexical, and phonological characteristics.

Linguists have reconstructed the term to Proto-Nuclear Polynesian * sawaiki.

Linguists have long classified Walloon as a dialect of French ( See langues d ' oïl ).

Linguists have documented locoism in use among English speakers by 1889, and both loco and locoweed in use by 1844.

Linguists have reconstructed about 100 Dacian words from placenames using established techniques of comparative linguistics, although only 20-25 such reconstructions had achieved wide acceptance by 1982.

Linguists who, due to this and similar facts, reject the Medieval origin of the Kensington inscription, consider this word to be a neologism and have noted that, in a Norwegian newspaper circulated in Minnesota, the late 19th century Norwegian historian Gustav Storm often used this term in articles on Viking exploration.

Linguists have classified Maithili as one of the Indo-Aryan languages.

Linguists have traditionally considered Wyandot as a dialect or modern form of Wendat.

Linguists have provided evidence in:

Linguists such as Sergei Starostin have proposed a Dené – Caucasian macrofamily, which includes the North Caucasian languages together with Basque, Burushaski, Na-Dené, Sino-Tibetan, and Yeniseian.

Linguists have established firmly that the / h / is a reflex of a proto-Mayan */ h /.

Linguists have not thoroughly investigated the origin of the / N / phoneme, which occurs only in a few words.

Linguists have pointed out that the placement of the letters in the constructed word is in fact inconsistent with the claimed pronunciation, that the expected pronunciation in English is as in goatee.

It has also been continuously developed by Linguists such as Kees Hengeveld.

Linguists such as Zaliznyak pointed out that certain linguistic elements in Slovo dated from the XV-XVI centuries, when the copy of the original manuscript ( or of a copy ) had been made.

Wallis is a Vice President of equal rights charity Parity, and has been elected a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Linguists ( FCIL ).

Linguists have been able to explain why it is so: Both Saurashtra and Gujarati branched off from a common parent, and have since taken completely different paths to modernity.

As of 2005, Ethnologue lists Taba as having a speaking population of approximately 20, 000, however, it has been argued by Linguists that this number could in reality be anywhere between 20, 000 and 50, 000.

Linguists have been interested in home sign for the insights it offers into the uniquely human ability to generate, acquire, and process language in general, and particularly as it pertains to such topics as the origins of language, notions of linguistic universals, the hypothesized critical period for language acquisition, children's natural tendency to invent language ( language acquisition device ), and the relationship between gesture and language.

Linguists have been investigating the dialects of Romani since the second half of the eighteenth century, and although there are no ancient written records of the language, it has been possible to reconstruct the development of Romani from the medieval languages of India to its present forms as spoken in Europe.

Linguists tend to view prescriptive grammars as having little justification beyond their authors ' aesthetic tastes, although style guides may give useful advice about standard language employment, based on descriptions of usage in contemporary writings of the same language.

Linguists Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle authored seminal texts on generative grammar and phonology.

Linguists which distinguish them may not agree on the distinction being made.

Linguists of the NSM school rely on semantic primitives ( or semantic primes ) for analysis ( that is, simple, indefinable, and universally lexicalized concepts ) and reductive paraphrase ( that is, breaking complex concepts down into simpler concepts ).

Linguists working on Burushaski use various makeshift transcriptions based on the Latin alphabet, most commonly that by Berger ( see below ), in their publications.

Linguists differ somewhat on the way they classify Samoan in relation to the other Polynesian languages.

Linguists including Christopher Beckwith argue for Japanese as a descendant of Goguryeo, and for Korean as a descendant of the Silla language, based on lexical similarities between Goguryeo and Japanese, and based upon Silla's ultimate triumph in the quest for political control of Korea.

Hall attended The Perse School in Cambridge and went on to the Joint Services School for Linguists during his National Service, where he learned to speak Russian.

Linguists disagree on the meaning of this word.

Linguists rely heavily on this fact to reconstruct the sounds of ancient Chinese.