Sentence examples for student of language from inspiring English sources

Crucially for Gallimard, Paulhan was a student of language and semantics, and thus open to the experimentations of dada and the surrealists.

He arranged his findings in a compilation entitled Sic et non ("Yes and No"); and for it he wrote a preface in which, as a logician and as a keen student of language, he formulated basic rules with which students might reconcile apparent contradictions of meaning and distinguish the various senses in which words had been used over the course of many centuries.

Percy was a philosopher manqu, a student of language and the human condition, with a droll comic touch.

In these interviews, recorded over four decades, Halliday recounts and discusses his own experience as a student of language and linguistics in Britain and China and his career as a linguist, and explores key notions and concepts of SFL, the evolution of the theory around the world, its place in the field of general linguistics, as well as its many sites of application.

Only one of Richard Tansey's four sons went into art -- one is an economist, another a banker and the last a student of language -- but Mark Tansey's painting seems apt for the child of a scholar.

He was a talented chess player, a student of languages and ancient history.

Before joining the Navy, he was a student of languages at London University.

A student of languages – he speaks six – he has made a life-long specialism of being a chameleon.

He was a WWII veteran, a graduate of Brooklyn Tech High School and Brooklyn College, a CPA, a golfer, a jazz afficionado, and a student of languages.

Dr. Malotki fell in love with America's desert Southwest as a 20-something graduate student of languages at the University of California, San Diego.

At 23, while still a student of languages at the University of Oxford, Mr. Strugnell joined the original team of scholars piecing together and translating the scrolls, one of the great ancient finds of the 20th century.