Sentence examples for fellow linguists from inspiring English sources

Regardless of how unserious Twitter exchanges may appear on the surface, many of Mr. Chomsky's fellow linguists are discovering that Twitter can help uncover truths about our social interactions that are quite serious indeed.

Somewhat puzzlingly, his fellow linguists generally accept his work on the relationships among African languages but furiously dispute his ordering of American Indian languages, even though both classifications were achieved with the same method.

His life among his fellow linguists, however, has been far less idyllic, and debate about his scholarship is poised to boil over anew, thanks to his ambitious new book, "Language: The Cultural Tool," and a forthcoming television documentary that presents an admiring view of his research among the Pirahã along with a darkly conspiratorial view of some of his critics.

The paper, published in the journal Current Anthropology, turned him into something of a popular hero but a professional lightning rod, embraced in the press as a giant killer who had felled the mighty Chomsky but denounced by some fellow linguists as a fraud, an attention seeker or worse, promoting dubious ideas about a powerless indigenous group while refusing to release his data to skeptics.

Ms. Edmonds, who translated material in Turkish, Persian and Azerbaijani, had complained about slipshod translations and management problems in the bureau's translation section and raised accusations of possible espionage against a fellow linguist.

On the way to proposing a counterstrategy (it never really arrives), Nunberg pauses to engage in a polite disagreement with his fellow linguist George Lakoff, who has provided a rival account of the conservative ascendancy.

He also gently chides his fellow-linguists for their inability to present convincing arguments in favor of vernacular language.

But officials have said Ms. Edmonds said the co-worker, a fellow Turkish linguist, had blocked the translation of material involving foreign acquaintances of hers who had come under suspicion.

Quite a few of my fellow drivers are linguists; many live abroad too.

Both Interviews 5 and 6 are in-depth interviews conducted by well-established fellow systemic functional linguists.

For many who adopt the term, or bestow it on others, "it's an innocent form of self-inflation," said John H. McWhorter, a linguist and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.