Linguist Edward Sapir classified Haida as one of the Na-Dené languages in 1915, a position later supported by others, notably Pinnow, Greenberg, Enrico, Ruhlen, Manaster Ramer, and Bengtson ( cf.

Linguist Giuliano Bonfante has speculated, on the grounds of his cult and of the meaning of his name, that he should be a very archaic deity and might date back to an era when Latins lived in dwellings built on pilings.

Linguist and Egyptologist Verena Lepper thinks it may be possible that the Westcar Papyrus had already been written during the 13th dynasty.

Linguist Derek Bickerton, building on the work of Bernd Heindrich, has recently argued that Ravens are one of only four known animals ( the others beings bees, ants, and humans ) who have demonstrated displacement, the capacity to communicate about objects or events that are distant in space or time from the communication.

Linguist and political theorist Noam Chomsky grew up in East Oak Lane in the 1930s and 40s at 6417 Fairhill Street, at the time " the only Jewish family in a mostly Irish and German Catholic neighborhood.

Linguist and ethnographer S. Robert Ramsey has argued for inclusion both the Yugur and the Salar as subgroups of Uyghur ( based on similar historical roots for the Yugur, and perceived linguistic similarities for the Salar ).

Linguist Noam Chomsky made the argument that the human brain contains a limited set of rules for organizing language.

The Linguist A. P. Nepokupnyj proposes that the language source for Białystok is Yotvingian.

Linguist Mark Liberman of Language Log has suggested that Bush is not unusually error-prone in his speech, saying: " You can make any public figure sound like a boob, if you record everything he says and set hundreds of hostile observers to combing the transcripts for disfluencies, malapropisms, word formation errors and examples of non-standard pronunciation or usage ...

Bodley wanted his librarian to be " some one that is noted and knowen for a diligent Student, and in all his conuersation to be trustie, actiue, and discreete, a graduat also and a Linguist, not encombred with mariage, nor with a benefice of Cure ", although James was able to persuade Bodley to let him get married and to become Rector of St Aldate's Church, Oxford.

Linguist Geoffrey Pullum, in an essay entitled " Here come the linguistic fascists " charges English First with " hatred and suspicion of aliens and immigrants " and points out that English is far from under threat in the United States, saying " making English the official language of the United States of America is about as urgently called for as making hotdogs the official food at baseball games.

Linguist Norman Zide said " The shapes of the letters are not arbitrary, but reflect the names for the letters, which are words, usually the names of objects or actions representing conventionalized form in the pictorial shape of the characters.

Although his father-in-law was doubtless instrumental in securing his appointment, Cutler was in general well-fitted for the position, being " an excellent Linguist ", a " good Logician, Geographer, and Rhetorician ", while " in the Philosophy & Metaphysics & Ethics of his Day or juvenile Education he was great.

* Yuan Renlin ( c. 18th century ): Linguist, noted for his study of grammatical particles.

Linguist Richard Hudson uses the term " hyperpolyglot " for a person who can speak six or more languages fluently.

* Report for Beothuk on Linguist List

Linguist Noam Chomsky maintained that structural linguistics was efficient for phonology and morphology, because both have a finite number of units that the linguist can collect.

Key figures in the NoZe Brotherhood include the Lorde Mayor, bearer of the Enlightening Rod of Elmo, the Cunning Linguist, who edits the Rope, and the Shekel Keeper, who tries to keep graft to a minimum so that there will be funds available after publication costs to pay for parties.

Linguist offer a few derivations for the name of the clan:

Linguist Willi Mayerthaler, for example, defines unmarked categories as those ‘ in agreement with the typical attributes of the speaker .’

Linguist William Poser in Language Log has criticized some of Cavalli-Sforza's comments about linguistics, in particular the suggestion, echoing controversial linguists Merritt Ruhlen and Joseph Greenberg, that some mainstream linguists are unnecessarily conservative about hypothesized long-range relationships between language families, and an overstatement that Greenberg's critics " have ruled out the possibility of hierarchical classification ", which Cavalli-Sforza did not defend when challenged by Poser, but deferred to Ruhlen.

Linguist Peter Schrijver speculates on the reminiscent lexical and typological features of the region, from an unknown substrate whose linguistic influences may have influenced the historical development of the ( Romance and Germanic ) languages of the region.

Linguist, John Swales defined discourse communities as " groups that have goals or purposes, and use communication to achieve these goals ".

Linguist Z. Zinkevičius has presumed that Nadruvians and Skalovians were transitive tribes between Lithuanians and Prussians since much earlier times than German invasion had occurred.

Linguist Eric Hamp derives the second element, bulga, from a Proto-Celtic compound * balu-gaisos meaning " spear of mortal pain / death spear " ( comparable to Old Irish fogha " spear, dart ", from Proto-Celtic * uo-gaisu -).

Linguist Nakamoto Masachie noted that in some dialects of Yaeyama, gusuku / gusïku means stone walls themselves and conjectured that this might be the original meaning of gusuku.

The writing system was finalized at a one-day conference in 1984 in Ruyan County, Guangdong, which included Chinese professors Pan Chengqian ( 盤承乾 / 盘承乾 ), Deng Fanggui ( 鄧方貴 / 邓方贵 ), Liu Baoyuan ( 劉保元 / 刘保元 ), Su Defu ( 蘇德富 / 苏德富 ) and Yauz Mengh Borngh ; Chinese government officials ; Mien Americans Sengfo Chao ( Zhao Fuming ), Kao Chiem Chao ( Zhao Youcai ), and Chua Meng Chao ; David T. LeeUnited States Linguist Herbert C. Purnell, who developed a curriculum and workshop presentations on language learning in East and Southeast Asia ; and Yao Seng Deng from Thailand.

Linguist Paul Wexler has proposed yet another etymology, tracing kobold to the roots koben (" pigsty ") and hold (" stall spirit ").

Linguist Malcolm Coulthard showed that certain patterns, such as the frequency of the word " then " and the grammatical use of " then " after the grammatical subject (" I then " rather than " then I "), was not consistent with Bentley's use of language ( his idiolect ), as evidenced in court testimony.

Linguist Sid Baker in his book The Australian Language suggested that " hoon " ( meaning " a fool ") was a contraction of Houyhnhnm, a fictional race of intelligent horses which appears in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.

Their other son J. David Sapir became a Linguist and Anthropologist specialized in West African Languages, especially Jola languages.

Linguist George T. Wright suggests that hendiadys had been used deliberately to heighten the play's sense of duality and dislocation.

* A bibliographic list about Bloomfield's reputation as a linguist in Linguist List website.

" Noah Webster: America's Forgotten Linguist.

Linguist A. C. Hinderliter argued that " Including some sexual interests — but not others — in the DSM creates a fundamental asymmetry and communicates a negative value judgment against the sexual interests included ," and leaves the paraphilias in a situation similar to ego-dystonic homosexuality, which was removed from the DSM because it did not meet the DSM's definition of mental disorder.

Linguist George Lakoff has proposed a cognitive science of mathematics wherein even the most fundamental ideas of arithmetic would be seen as consequences or products of human perception — which is itself necessarily evolved within an ecology.

Based on all the evidence the Linguist List classifies Sabine, again tentatively, as a member of the Umbrian Group of Italic languages of Indo-European family.

Linguist Dale Kinkade, a specialist in the Native American languages of the Pacific Northwest, was born and raised in Hartline.

Linguist John McWhorter maintains that the contribution of West African languages to AAVE is minimal.

* Linguist Herman Liebaers ( 1919 – 2010 ) was born in Tienen.

* John McWhorter, Linguist, Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow and a commentator on issues of race, ethnicity and culture in America.

Linguist Jesse Sheidlower traces the gesture's development in the United States to the 1890s.