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

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

Linguists such as Dimmendahl, Blench, Hyman, and Segerer classify them into three or more independent branches of Niger – Congo.

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 working in generative grammar often view such derivation trees as a primary object of study.

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.

Linguists such as Sergei Starostin see the Northwest ( Abkhaz – Adyghe ) and Northeast ( Nakh-Dagestanian ) families as related and propose uniting them in a single North Caucasian family, sometimes called Caucasic or simply Caucasian.

Linguists agree that, apart from such things as pidgins, there are no " primitive " languages: all modern human populations speak languages of comparable expressive power, though much recent scholarship has explored how linguistic complexity varies between and within languages over historical time.

Linguists are interested in the letter because the names of the community members are of Turkic, Slavic, and Hebrew origins ( for example, names such as: " Hanukkah ," " Yehudah ," " Gostata ," and " Kiabar ").

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 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 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 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.

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

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.