Sentence examples for language scholar from inspiring English sources

The great British language scholar David Crystal once warned me, "Never predict the future with language".

He also published the posthumous papers of his brother, Arsène, the French language scholar.

In 1929 a National Romanization, worked out by the author and language scholar Lin Yutang, the linguist Zhao Yuanren, and others, was adopted.

German-born language scholar who made the first major analysis of the Romance languages and thus founded an important branch of comparative linguistics.

At the Catholic University of Leuven (Louvain) in 1522, he encountered Flemish humanism and became a language scholar, acquiring a knowledge of both Greek and Hebrew.

Geoffrey Nunberg, a language scholar at Stanford, informs me that its post-medical sense of "rankling jealousy, discontent or enmity" has been replaced in vogue use.

After study under some of the most prominent language scholars of the 19th century, Bechtel became professor at the University of Halle (1895 1924) and published extensively.

"Language scholars are paying attention to the innovative linguistic force of hashtags, and #blacklivesmatter was certainly a forceful example of this in 2014".

Some musicological detective work, with help from the Chinese language scholars Cornelius C. Kubler and Ping Wang, identified the tune as "Shiba Mo," or "The 18 Touches," an erotic song often banned in China.

But language scholars by and large think of punctuation (whether to use the Oxford comma; whether to put commas and full stops inside inverted commas or outside) as orthography or mechanics, not grammar.

Contemporary with Freud a handful of language scholars were tuning into the idea that verbal mistakes, examined closely enough, followed certain patterns and could shed light on the way language works.