Sentences with phrase «greatest linguists»

As the Mezzofanti of his age (Mezzofanti was a polyglot scholar of the eighteenth century, one of the greatest linguists of all times), Humboldt has continued to live in the consciousness of the German people.

The great linguist stresses the creative nature of speech.

Conceived as the introduction to an analysis of the Kawi language of Java, this book actually is the ripest fruit of the great linguist's interest in human speech and its products, an interest that lasted throughout his life.

«We have extended this flexibility to all academies so more schools can hire great linguists, computer scientists, engineers and other specialists who have not worked in state schools before.

That is why we have given free schools and academies the same freedoms the best independent schools enjoy to hire great linguists, computer scientists, engineers and others who can inspire their pupils.»

As America's great linguist might say, it depends on your definition of «cool».

Not exact matches

Unfortunately there is no single brand of specialists — call them «hominists» — to whom one can turn for authoritative answers about man, as one might turn to linguists for information about languages or, if he had great faith, to meteorologists for understanding the weather.

«One of the great early American linguists, Leonard Bloomfield, said that you can never see a language change, that the change is invisible,» said Robin Clark, a coauthor and professor of linguistics in Penn Arts and Sciences.

Linguists agree that all humans must share some cognitive or linguistic structures, but there's great debate over which features of language are universal — or at least, innately human.

The depth of expression possible with film, a depth that the linguist and author Umberto Eco describes as greater than that achievable through spoken language, means that even high achievers can explore concepts beyond those that they can articulate with written or spoken language.

Sabatier — poet, linguist, translator, and knowledgeable amateur of music and the theater — was married to Caroline Ungher, one of the great singers of the epoch.

The Great Debate About Art by Roy Harris, who was an Oxford University linguist, attempts to provide a response to the «historical residue of empty questions that contemporary society can no longer answer» after the modernist implosion of Art as a cohesive category.

Which is the lead to a great column in The Chronicle of Higher Education by linguist Geoffrey [go pronounce that if it's new to you] Pullum, he of Language Log fame.

Turning now to language in the Blawgosphere, there has been a great debate by linguists over the use of the word «Blawg» to describe a legal blog.

How to get there: Aside from experience in related fields like psychology and sociology, extensive knowledge of legal procedures is an essential trait for any Forensic Linguist — so taking courses or studying for a postgrad is a great way to stand out from the crowd if you're struggling to break into this position.

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Cultural and linguist decline between generations hollows out a people — like having one's viscera removed under local anaesthetic — leaving the people conscious that great riches are being lost and replaced with emptiness.