Linguistic scholars are divided in regard to the etymology of the name Zelophehad.

The Prague Linguistic Circle included the Russian émigrés Roman Jakobson, Nikolai Trubetzkoy, and Sergei Karcevskiy, as well as the famous Czech literary scholars René Wellek and Jan Mukařovský.

" Many scholars argue that hypercorrection provides both an index of " social class " and an " Index of Linguistic Insecurity ".

Upon his retirement in 1986, scholars from Western Europe, the Soviet Union and the U. S. gathered at the University of Texas to honor him at an IREX Conference on Linguistic Reconstruction.

Linguistic properties can include such variables as the number of words in the problem or the mean sentence length.

Linguistic prescriptions also form part of the explanation for variation in speech, particularly variation in the speech of an individual speaker ( an explanation, for example, for why some people say, " I didn't do nothing "; some say, " I didn't do anything "; and some say one or the other depending on social context ).

Linguistic anthropologist Don Kulick has done this in relation to identity, for example, in a series of settings, first in a village called Gapun in Papua New Guinea.

For example, in prohibiting the use of such paper for manuscript submissions, the Linguistic Society of America refers to " Eaton's ' Corrasable Bond ' and similar brands.

* Linguistic and / or political inclinations of the designers of the system ( see, for example, the use — or disuse — of the letter Ґ for rendering the " G " of foreign words in the Ukrainian ).

Linguistic conventions, for example, the convention in English that " cat " means cat or the convention in Portuguese that " gato " means cat, are among the most important norms.

Linguistic purism was institutionalized through Language academies ( of which the 1572 Accademia della Crusca set a model example in Europe ), and their decisions have often the force of law.

* Linguistic reconstruction makes it possible to identify particular words ( those cited * thus on this page, with a preceding asterisk ) which are taken to have formed part of the vocabulary of the Proto-Indo-European language.

Linguistic terms, like all symbols, are devoid of any inherent meaning, and so must derive their meaning from the users of the language, who attribute meaning to them in a manner that is conventionally prescribed within their particular linguistic group.

Linguistic studies of the text's vocabulary and rhyme scheme point to a date of composition after the Shi Jing yet before the Zhuangzi.

Linguistic differences between the Pueblos point to their diverse origins.

The Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities, Allahabad by his letter No. 123 / 5 / 1 / 62 / 1559 dated November 21, 1964 Communicated to Sourashtra Vidya Peetam, Madurai that the State Government were of the view that as only one book in Sourashtra Language had so far been submitted by Sourashtra Vidya Peetam for scrutiny, there was no point in examining the merits of only one book specially when the question regarding the usage of script-Hindi or Sourashtram, was still unsettled, and that the question of text books in Sourashtram might well lie over till a large number of books is available for scrutiny and for being prescribed as text books in Schools.

Linguistic evidence suggests that this group originated in lower Central America, and at some point in time ( but shortly before the conquest ) established an enclave within the territory of eastern El Salvador.

Linguistic charting of the transcribed interview flags points where the patient's voice departs from expected norms.

Linguistic anthropology ( also called anthropological linguistics ) seeks to understand the processes of human communications, verbal and non-verbal, variation in language across time and space, the social uses of language, and the relationship between language and culture.

Linguistic anthropologists often draw on related fields including sociolinguistics, pragmatics, cognitive linguistics, semiotics, discourse analysis, and narrative analysis.

Linguistic ambiguity can be a problem in law ( see Ambiguity ( law )), because the interpretation of written documents and oral agreements is often of paramount importance.

Stokoe used it for his 1965 A Dictionary of American Sign Language on Linguistic Principles, the first dictionary with entries in ASL — that is, the first dictionary which one could use to look up a sign without first knowing its conventional gloss in English.

* Benedetto Croce ( 1922 ), Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic.

Before leaving Whorf presented the paper " Stem series in Maya " at the Linguistic Society of America conference, in which he argued that in the Mayan languages syllables carry symbolic content.

It was in the writings of his last two years that he laid out the research program of Linguistic relativity.

Linguistic study of the Khmer language divides its history into four periods one of which, the Old Khmer period, is subdivided into pre-Angkorian and Angkorian.

Roman Law: Linguistic, Social and Philosophical Aspects.

Studies in African Linguistic Classification.

), Selected Comparative-Historical Afrasian Linguistic Studies in Memory of Igor M. Diakonoff, LINCOM Europa, 55 – 60.

Linguistic map representing a Tree model of the Romance languages based on the comparative method.

Linguistic, historic and archeological evidence for such connections is scarce, meanwhile several such ideas were proven false, yet they lead to several pertaining misnomers in German dialectology.

Linguistic and genetic evidence indicates the Romanies originated on the Indian subcontinent, emigrating from India towards the northwest no earlier than the 11th century.

The field has re-appeared in 1988 in the Linguistic Bibliography, as a subfield of psycholinguistics.

He directed the Association from 1930 to 1931, and was a member of its Consultative Counsel for Linguistic Research from 1927 to 1938.

* Elvish Linguistic Fellowship, an organization that studies the invented languages of J. R. R. Tolkien

Old English: A Historical Linguistic Companion.

William Bright, then editor of Language: Journal of the Linguistic Society of America, wrote of Ethnologue that it " is indispensable for any reference shelf on the languages of the world.

Linguistic and theological agreements and cross-references between the books indicate that they are from the same author.

For a long time, scholars believed him to be identical with the 12th-century canon lawyer and theologian Master Roland of Bologna, who composed the " Stroma " or " Summa Rolandi "— one of the earliest commentaries on the Decretum of Gratian — and the " Sententiae Rolandi ", a sentence collection displaying the influence of Pierre Abélard.

The account goes as follows: " The cardinals dallied with their duty until March 1314, ( exact day is disputed by scholars ) when, on a scaffold in front of Notre Dame, Jacques de Molay, Templar Grand Master, Geoffroi de Charney, Master of Normandy, Ilugues de Peraud, Visitor of France, and Godefroi de Gonneville, Master of Aquitaine, were brought forth from the jail in which for nearly seven years they had lain, to receive the sentence agreed upon by the cardinals, in conjunction with the Archbishop of Sens and some other prelates whom they had called in.

He complains about a sentence of rustication apparently passed on him at some time, in his address to the gentlemen scholars of Oxford affixed to the second edition of the first part of Euphues, but nothing more is known about either its date or its cause.

The usual way of connecting the subject and predicate of a categorical sentence as Aristotle does in On Interpretation is by using a linking verb e. g. P is S. However, in the Prior Analytics Aristotle rejects the usual form in favor of three of his inventions: 1 ) P belongs to S, 2 ) P is predicated of S and 3 ) P is said of S. Aristotle does not explain why he introduces these innovative expressions but scholars conjecture that the reason may have been that it facilitates the use of letters instead of terms avoiding the ambiguity that results in Greek when letters are used with the linking verb.

Amateur biblical scholars often forget that when compared in context to the rest of the sentence ( in a Torah verse which indicates singular usage ), the Hebrew term " gods " is actually a Semitic elative meaning the one God YHWH ( see the original term in Hebrew, Elohim ); thus, Aaron's famous response to the unruly Israelites after he is forced to cast the Golden Calf could be seen as a bitterly sarcastic condemnation of their assumption of God's likeness, even after he consents to their demands.

Some Japanese scholars claim that some wokou were Korean, due to one interesting sentence that exists within a Korean text.

While Bekker numbers are the dominant method used to refer to the works of Aristotle, Catholic or Thomist scholars often use the medieval method of reference by book, chapter, and sentence, albeit generally in addition to Bekker numbers.

While at the time of Jesus, and in modern societies, capital punishment is not imposed for adultery several scholars still feel the death sentence is important.

In American literature, scholars note the explicit rejection by Henry David Thoreau of the formal style of his time, of which the periodic sentence was characteristic ; in his journal, Thoreau criticized those sentences as the " weak and flowing periods of the politician and scholar.