There is a parallelism here with the recall that Peter Galison does of anthropological linguists who show that "pidgin English" is a simplified form of language which is essential for allowing communication and exchange between local populations in colonies and colonizers.
Linguists, take note: the television show "Futurama" is a fount of useful new words.
" When someone's name ends with an "s," it is acceptable to use an apostrophe without an "s" to show ownership, but linguists with the Chicago Manual of Style, along with others, prefer to add an "s" after the apostrophe.
His identity remains a mystery more than a decade later, despite an FBI investigation, DNA analysis, facial recognition technology, linguists, hypnotists and an appearance on the Dr Phil show.
But wrong.Descriptive linguists have shown that whom in a subject role is certainly out there, and so some fight shy of calling it a mistake.
Indeed, it is accepted wisdom among linguists that once a word actually shows up in a slang dictionary, it effectively ceases to be slang.
In addition, if linguists discovered that some linguistic feature was optional in two different languages, then even if psychological experiments showed differences between the two populations of speakers, this would not show linguistic determination or influence.
In principle there might be significant differences between the judgments of (i) linguists with a stake in what the evidence shows; (ii) linguists with experience in syntactic theory but no stake in the issue at hand; (iii) non-linguist native speakers who have been tutored in how to provide the kinds of judgments the linguist is interested in; and (iv) linguistically naïve native speakers.
The matter has been studied carefully by linguists [some of whom Wolfe cites and dismisses without argument], who showed that it appears to be incorrect; also by experimental cognitive scientists who have drawn the same conclusions.
In one camp were linguists.
