Comprehensive language description, particularly from a functional linguistic perspective of the kind pursued by systemic linguists, is crucial for application in linguistic revitalisation.
If the kids find their grandparents' language uncool, all of the well-intentioned outside help by linguists is usually in vain, except for preserving the language as a museum-piece.
Some, used by linguists, are too abstract for everyday communication.
The Pirahã, Everett wrote, have no numbers, no fixed color terms, no perfect tense, no deep memory, no tradition of art or drawing, and no words for "all," "each," "every," "most," or "few" — terms of quantification believed by some linguists to be among the common building blocks of human cognition.
The competence of linguists is not measured by the number of languages they know.
The definitions provided by linguists were "to disrupt or make a change that is not pleasant" in French for Canada, and "to be troubled, annoyed or embarrassed" in French for Belgium.
Much important early work in this paradigm was carried out by non-linguists, and as linguists are engaging with these new methods, linguistically-informed criticism of, and reworking of, previous approaches is emerging (e.g., Change et al. 2015).
Most linguists are influenced by the work of Noam Chomsky in particular, his theory of "deep grammar".
Linguists aren't particularly disturbed by the trend, he said.
The film, in which a linguist is tasked by the government to communicate with newly arrived aliens, has drawn good reviews.
