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 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.

Linguists trace the origin of the term “ diwata ” to Hindu word Devata which also means deity.

Most linguists are listed in subcategories of the Linguists by nationality category by their country of birth and / or the location of their linguistics work.

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

Linguists documenting the sounds of speech use various special symbols, of which the International Phonetic Alphabet is the most widely known.

Linguists believe that the Norse name is ultimately derived from a proto-Germanic word * raudnian meaning " getting red " and which referred to the red foliage and red berries in the autumn.

Linguists today distinguish four different dialects, which are not all mutually intelligible: Hill Mari ( мары йӹлмӹ ), concentrated mainly along the right Volga bank ; Meadow Mari ( марий йылме ), spoken in the lowland regions of the Kokshaga and Volga rivers, which includes the city of Yoshkar-Ola ; Eastern Mari, spoken east of the Vyatka River ; and North-Western Mari.

Linguists have defined a Second Consonant Shift creating Old High German ( OHG ) from which modern standard German descends.

The main characteristic of this Prakrit is the replacement of ś ( শ ) and ṣ ( ষ ) by s ( স ), which is contrary to the Vararuci's rule for Magadhi Prakrit which warrants that ṣ and s are replaced by ś. Linguists claim this apabhramsa gave rise to various eastern Indo-European languages like modern Assamese and felt its presence in the form of Kamrupi and North Bengali.

Linguists Morris Halle and Samuel Jay Keyser developed a set of rules ( English Stress: Its Forms, Its Growth, and Its Role in Verse, Harper and Row, 1971 ) which correspond with those variations which are permissible in English iambic pentameter.

Linguists say that there are six levels of honorifics in Korean but, in daily conversation, only three of them are widely used in contemporary Korean.

Linguists who studied English as spoken in California before and in the period immediately after World War II tended to find few if any distinct patterns unique to the region.

Linguists of the Romanian Academy reacted by declaring that all the Moldovan words were also Romanian words ; while in Moldova, the head of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Ion Bărbuţă, described the dictionary as a politically motivated " absurdity ".

Corpus Linguists specify a Key Word in Context ( KWIC ) and identify the words immediately surrounding them.

Linguists divide the Romance languages of France, and especially of Medieval France, into three geographical subgroups: Langues d ' oïl and Langues d ' oc, named after their words for ' yes ', with Franco-Provençal ( Arpitan ) considered transitional.

" Linguists ", vs. multi-languists, are not very familiar with the cultural and other nuances contained in many languages, therefore many " linguists " are unable to understand the cross correlations between words and word origins, specifically because they are not well versed in several languages, completely failing to understad the linguistic nuances of foreign languages that are attached to a particular culture.

Linguists and historians have proposed a variety of origins for the seemingly nonsensical chorus, suggesting that the words may come from a melange of cultures.

Linguists Edward R. Simmen and Richard F. Bauerle report the use of the term in an essay by Mexican American writer, Mario Suárez, published in the Arizona Quarterly in 1947.

Linguists Arnold Zwicky and Geoffrey Pullum argue, however, that the form has the properties of an affix rather than a syntactically independent clitic.

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

Linguists do not normally use the term to refer to orthographical rules, although usage books and style guides that call themselves grammars may also refer to spelling and punctuation.

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 often prefer to define nouns ( and other lexical categories ) in terms of their formal properties.

Linguists, however, do not support any Indian origins.

Linguists with other interests and differing perspectives than the originators ' can exploit this work.

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Linguists recognize that the above list of eight word classes is drastically simplified and artificial.

Linguists classify it within the Eastern Polynesian languages as being closely related to Cook Islands Māori, Tuamotuan, Rapanui and Tahitian ; somewhat less closely to Hawaiian and Marquesan ; and more distantly to the languages of Western Polynesia, including Samoan, Tokelauan, Niuean and Tongan.

Linguists ' observations of Old Malay ( sanscritised ), Old Javanese ( sanscritised ) and Old Bugis borrowings in the initial Proto-SEB languages, indicate that the first Hova waves came probably in the 8th century at the earliest.

Linguists will make distinctions within these categories ; for example, the audience can be distinguished as addressees and other hearers.

" Linguists study particular languages, such as English or Xhosa, by examining the utterances produced by the people who speak the language.