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Words related to linguist
lin·guist
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bloomfield
Leonard. 1887–1949, US linguist, influential for his strictly scientific and descriptive approach to comparative linguistics; author of Language (1933) -
bloomfieldian
Linguistics. influenced by, resembling, or deriving from the linguistic theory and the methods of linguistic analysis advocated by Leonard Bloomfield, characterized especially by emphasis on the classification of overt formal features. -
chomsky
(Avram) Noam (ˈnəʊəm). born 1928, US linguist and political critic. His theory of language structure, transformational generative grammar, superseded the behaviourist view of Leonard Bloomfield -
comparative linguistics
the study of the correspondences between languages that have a common origin. -
crichton
James. 1560–82, Scottish scholar and writer, called the Admirable Crichton because of his talents -
emic
Relating to or denoting an approach to the study or description of a particular language or culture in terms of its internal elements and their functioning rather than in terms of any existing external scheme.