Sentences with phrase «of linguists»

Hybrid teams of linguists, paralegals, JDs, licensed attorneys, and project managers collaborate to ensure that your multilingual review meets the quality and readiness of any project despite language requirements.

In «Justices Turning More Frequently to Dictionary, and Not Just for Big Words,» Adam Liptak wrote about the considerable frequency with which U.S. Supreme Court Justices refer to dictionary definitions in their opinions, much to the concern — not to say derision — of linguists and lexicologists.

Specifically, he'll commission a team of linguists to create entirely new complete languages for each alien race.

To find out why read this interview with Amanda Derocher and Matt Dewald of Linguists On The Loose.

The odd - numbered chapters form the narrative of the linguists» visit to Al - Sayyid and their subsequent work deciphering its language.

The conventional wisdom of linguists is that our languages diverged due to geographic isolation and the passage of time.

There is Hebrew: two of the linguists are from an Israeli university, and many men in Al - Sayyid speak Hebrew as well.

That's the conclusion of linguists and a geographer, who have together identified 18 Aboriginal stories — many of which were transcribed by early settlers before the tribes that told them succumbed to murderous and disease - spreading immigrants from afar — that they say accurately described geographical features that predated the last post-ice age rising of the seas.

In 2002, a team of linguists and historians argued that the script did not represent language at all, but religious or political imagery.

He stressed that supporting language teaching in primary schools was having an effect, saying he was «confident these changes will deliver a new generation of linguists».

Without the painstaking work of linguists and archeologists, the early religious history of humankind and many of its later manifestations would have remained unknown or would be inaccessible to us.

The company provided the services of their linguists and role players to movie and television war reenactments including the movies Jarhead, Three Kings, and Transformers and the television series 24.

Arrival follows the story of a linguist recruited by the military to explore a mysterious spacecraft after it lands on Earth.

And indeed staff and management of the award - winning Multimedia TV station were surprised when Nana Kwasi Wadie Esly II in the company of his Linguist, Okyeame Kwadwo Gyekye, his wife, Mabel Maku Wadie and Sister, Atsu Agbey walked into the studios of Adom TV in his beautifully woven Kente cloth.

In addition, his arguments are often confusing: to support claims for the «oneness» of mankind, he provides a brief account of the linguist Noam Chomsky's theories of a «language acquisition device», although even if this could be demonstrated to exist, it is difficult to see why it would prove that «human thought and behaviour are entirely universal» and that the development of science in Europe was therefore «utterly accidental».

With representative voices for each period, from those who covered it to those who survived it, Belzberg illustrates how the early efforts of linguist - turned - activist Raphael Lemkin resonate through the modern attempts to curtail ethnic violence and establish a global framework for prosecuting its most egregious offenders.

By the end of World War II, the school would produce thousands of linguist soldiers who, collectively, would serve with valor and distinction at every battle and every campaign in the Pacific theater.

Or was it less a matter of a linguist create a «real» fake language like Klingon or whatever and more a case of the linguist creating a really authentic - sounding Simlish?

I am generally a fan of linguist George Lakoff's writing — and cite him at length in my latest book, Language Intelligence: Lessons on Persuasion from Jesus, Shakespeare, Lincoln and Lady Gaga.

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Previously, that kind of work would have required a team of highly skilled linguists and would have taken weeks to translate the original and check the resulting copy.

Top of the vacancy list at France's DGSE, the equivalent of America's CIA or Britain's MI6, are posts for young information technology gurus and linguists who master the finer points of Russian, Chinese, or Farsi, widely used in Iran and Afghanistan.

The company's employees speak about 12 different languages, «but other than that, we leave the language specialties to professional linguists who offer over 180 different dialects of services from over 4,000 linguists globally,» says Buckstein.

A certification program helps linguists boost their translation skills as well as their knowledge of the industries TransPerfect serves.

We partnered with sales linguist Steve W. Martin on a comprehensive study of 230 B2B buyers, with the goal of pointing the spotlight on buyers themselves.

BTW, Joseph Smith translated the golden plates (which were written in what he insisted was «reformed Egyptian» hieroglyphics - something no other linguist in history has ever heard of) behind a curtain while dictating the translation to a secretary on the other side of the curtain.

Anyway, by the time of his death he had probably already achieved as much as he might reasonably have hoped: He had been a certified naval physician, an explorer, a poet, a novelist, an essayist, an ethnographer, a linguist, a sinologist, an aesthetic theorist, and a few other things besides.

As a matter of fact, based on linguists, Bible scholars, historians and archaeologists are the places to go to find the facts of Christianity.

With adept recourse to an impressive (but never name - dropping) array of anthropologists and literary theorists, folklorists and linguists, philosophers and theologians, she shows that these Catholic writers engage modern and even postmodern culture by way of a revolutionary understanding of the imagination.

He therefore sought out the advice of Edward Sapir, a leading linguist at Yale University.

(iii) you are a complete blowhard who has never studied one subject of university level biology, never been on an archaeological dig, never studied a thing about paleontology, geology, astronomy, linguistics or archaeology, but feel perfectly sure that you know more than the best biologists, archaeologists, paleontologists, doctors, astronomers botanists and linguists in the World because your mommy and daddy taught you some comforting stories from Bronze Age Palestine as a child.

John Paul was not just personally holy and personally interesting - poet, philosopher, essayist, linguist, a man with a gift for friendship, a man of prayer, a courageous man with massive moral integrity matched with humour and greatintellectual gifts.

Many linguists and computer programmers would say that the knowledge of a natural language can never be reduced to dictionaries and grammars.

In short, and not surprisingly, the World's most gifted evolutionary biologists, astronomers, cosmologists, geologists, archeologists, paleontologists, historians, modern medical researchers and linguists (and about 2,000 years of accu.mulated knowledge) are right and a handful of Iron Age Middle Eastern goat herders were wrong.

While the linguist takes the parlance of average literate adults as the yardstick of usage, Gwynne's grammarian balances it with the best that has been said and written, John Bull and Samuel Johnson.

No respected linguist anywhere in the World traces languages back to the Tower of Babel, the creationists» explanation for different languages.

The origins of structuralism lie in the work of the early 20th - century linguist Ferdinand de Saussure, who attempted to analyze the system of relationships within a language that makes acts of speech possible.

Professional linguists or anthropologists are part of a distinct human minority.

It was a tall order, one that would require a new kind of specially trained missionary: the translator - linguist.

Leonard Bloomfield and Edward Sapir, the two leading linguists of the day, were present at the Linguistic Institute in 1937, and Sapir was impressed with Pike's initial analysis of Mixtec.

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.

Pike also groomed a growing cadre of professional linguists in SIL by encouraging the organization's best minds to pursue doctoral degrees at top universities around the world.

You seem to «privilege» your sense of rationality and logic — and cast the irrational and illogical (probably not analogical because you may incorporate analogy into your sense of «logic» but it's illogical, descriptively) I actually see my rationality and logic (such as it is — hardly syllogistic) as always in the service of my attitude, outlook, frame of mind — which is to say, my illogical and irrational belief & bias system — and my unconscious, of which my consciousness is merely tip - of - the - I's berg, or as some linguists said: a snowball on the tip of the iceberg.

One of the most likely instances of this is Jesus» warning to an overeager disciple that whereas the birds have nests and the foxes have holes, the «son of man» does not have a place to lay his head; the meaning may well be, if these linguists are correct, «this man.»

In short, and not surprisingly, the World's most gifted evolutionary biologists, astronomers, cosmologists, geologists, archeologists, paleontologists, historians, modern medical researchers and linguists (and about 2,000 years of acc.umulated knowledge) are right and a handful of Iron Age Middle Eastern goat herders were wrong.

I know a linguist who thinks and has seen what he describes as a gift of «tongues», whereby some individuals pick up and learn to speak another language very rapidly, in a matter of days or weeks.

(Fluent in eight languages, with a reading knowledge of another ten, he was the most astonishingly gifted linguist I have ever known.)

The great linguist stresses the creative nature of speech.

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.

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.

So, while he is not an empiricist, Hartshorne is no philosophical linguist or logician; he is an experientialist, interested in the principles of experience as such.