How to Use linguistics in a Sentence

linguistics

noun

• But note the word choice from the linguistics professor.
  — Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2021
• Both the defense and prosecution have spent days wrangling over the linguistics of that phrase.
  — Mary Hui, Quartz, 14 July 2021
• And if that is the case, some Western scholars have argued, the stone was lucky to have been carried off to Europe, where linguistics was, at the time, far more advanced than in Egypt.
  — The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
• So John studied linguistics and learned German, intending to work as a tour guide.
  — Karina Bland, The Arizona Republic, 9 May 2021
• From spoon licks to cunning library linguistics, Daphne and Simon made viewers burn for them.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 14 Feb. 2022
• Changes such as the one in Iceland can alter how gender is expressed and perceived, Fond, the linguistics expert, noted.
  — Washington Post, 4 June 2021
• Her husband had been offered a position as a linguistics professor at Texas Tech and a job as a pastor at a small local church.
  — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2021
• There are no records of it, but scholars have reconstructed it through the method of comparative linguistics.
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 May 2021
• The Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker is best known for his work in linguistics.
  — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2022
• To put this into perspective, experts in linguistics suggest that students need to know about 98 percent of the words in a text to be able to casually enjoy it.
  — John Alexander, Wired, 12 Feb. 2021
• After earning a master's degree in linguistics, Watts — who speaks five languages — taught at the college level in Germany.
  — Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE.com, 3 Feb. 2022
• Anyone who wants insight into what has been going on in Chomskyan linguistics this past half century should read the new edition of The Linguistics Wars.
  — Geoffrey K. Pullum, National Review, 17 Feb. 2022
• The family has been reflecting on the loss — Delores, the walking dictionary of Lakota linguistics.
  — New York Times, 12 Jan. 2021
• Bird’s father, Ethan, is a white former linguistics professor who ekes out an existence shelving books in the college library.
  — Martin Wolk, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2022
• Motorola's linguistics team worked with native language speakers of both languages throughout the project, which meant training them on the company's tools and practices.
  — Carolina Milanesi, Forbes, 27 May 2021
• The dialogue is informed by text and Twitter linguistics, dramatic beats are driven by and delivered via phone.
  — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2021
• Chris Kennedy, a professor of linguistics at the University of Chicago, highlighted a few things that might be interesting to watch.
  — Alison Bowen, chicagotribune.com, 29 Sep. 2020
• This exposure to new terminology has kept Sneller intrigued with the linguistics project.
  — Max G. Levy, Wired, 28 Dec. 2021
• The confusion has been so great that, in a major Supreme Court case, linguistics professors submitted a brief providing the justices with lessons on the punctuation and grammar.
  — Kurt Eichenwald, Newsweek, 16 July 2015
• But the outage has derailed her work as a a Ph.D. student in applied linguistics and discourse studies, forcing her to miss a presentation due to the lack of internet and spotty cellphone service.
  — Michael Hamad, courant.com, 7 Aug. 2020
• According to linguistics expert, Maxine Ali, the word wasn’t always used to admonish people.
  — Rose Stokes, refinery29.com, 26 Dec. 2021
• Aleksandra Cwiek of the Leibniz center general linguistics in Berlin.
  — Karen Hopkin, Scientific American, 2 Feb. 2022
• One who has a master’s degree in linguistics has made green energy a crusade on a reservation where coal, gas, and uranium have reigned supreme for decades, leaving tainted groundwater in their wake.
  — Randall Hyman, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Dec. 2021
• Applying linguistics laws outside of human language can get tricky.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Feb. 2020
• There’s some new twist in technology or in communication style or in linguistics or in politics.
  — Vicki Salemi, Forbes, 18 May 2022
• Lalami traveled from her home in Morocco to Los Angeles in 1992 to complete a doctorate in linguistics, planning to go home after getting her degree.
  — Marion Winik, Star Tribune, 18 Sep. 2020
• Gašper Beguš, an assistant professor of linguistics at the University of California Berkeley who wasn’t involved in the study, likens the vocal clans of sperm whales to dialect groups among humans.
  — Tom Metcalfe, NBC News, 19 Sep. 2022
• Helen is described as Harry’s supportive wife, mother of two teenage kids and a linguistics professor who is getting annoyed by Harry’s constant business trips away from home.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 29 Sep. 2021
• Themes include everything from sea life to imagination to linguistics.
  — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 19 Aug. 2022
• The Bloomington man, whose parents are Indiana University linguistics professors, tried picking the padlock with a paper clip to no avail.
  — CBS News, 25 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024