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

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

Linguists who understand particular languages as a composite of unique, individual idiolects must nonetheless account for the fact that members of large speech communities, and even speakers of different dialects of the same language, can understand one another.

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Linguists who reject Chomsky claim to be going beyond Chomsky, or they cling to phrase-structure grammars.

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

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

Linguists classify the language into the Indic subgroup of Indo-European languages and consider it to be one of the Indo-Iranian languages of the area.

Linguists consider Maithili to be an Eastern Indic language.

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

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

Linguists sometimes jokingly refer to haplology as haplogy ( subjecting the word haplology to haplology ).

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

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 believe that the etymology of the word either involves the Middle High German word lab ( to clot ) or the word laib ( loaf ), and the Slavic root quas ( feast ).

Linguists disagree on the meaning of this word.

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 derive this name from the Parthian word Ns ' yk meaning " bright, shining ".

" 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 sometimes jokingly refer to the phenomenon as " haplogy " ( subjecting the word " haplology " to haplology ).

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

During the filming of the 2008 American documentary film The Linguists, linguists Greg Anderson and K. David Harrison interviewed and recorded 20 speakers and estimate there may be between 35-40 fluent speakers out of a community of overall 426 members.

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 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 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 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 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 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 /.