Many linguists have looked at language in this way.

许多语言学家就是这样看待语言的。

These theories are now largely discredited among linguists.

这些理论现已大多受到语言学家的质疑。

Within the profession of linguists there are, of course, fighting factions.

在语言学家内部当然也有相互斗争的派别。

Cummings boldly experimented with this principle, and he attracted the attention of the linguists, particularly a linguist named Dell Hymes.

卡明斯大胆地试验了这一原则，他吸引了语言学家的注意，尤其是一位名叫戴尔·海姆斯的语言学家。

Proto-Indo-European is a reconstructed language, meaning, it is what linguists concluded a parent language of Sanskrit, Latin and Greek would have to be like.

原始印欧语是一门经过重构得出的语言，也就是说，这就是语言学家总结出梵语、拉丁语和希腊语的母系语言的样子。

Other linguists in the earlier part of this century, however, who were less eager to deal with bizarre data from "exotic" language, were not always so grateful.

然而，本世纪初的其他语言学家不那么热衷于处理来自“异国”语言的奇异数据，他们并不总是如此感激。

Other linguists in the earlier part of this century, however, who were less eager to deal with bizarre data from "exotic" language, were not always so grateful.

然而，本世纪初的其他语言学家不那么热衷于处理来自“异国”语言的奇异数据，他们并不总是如此感激。

Linguists celebrate his birthday on October 16 every year.

语言学家们在每年的10月16日庆祝他的生日。

Linguists believed it helped a new country achieve unity and cultural independence at a time when most people cared about political freedom.

语言学家认为，在大多数人关心政治自由的时候，它帮助一个新国家实现了统一和文化独立。

Concerning the semantic formula of -men, some linguists posit that -men is a plural marker in pronouns.

关于其语义特征，一些语言学家认为“-men”在人称代词后是复数标记。

And that's the sort of thing linguists study.

这就是语言学家们所研究的内容。

Linguists still do not have a definitive answer.

语言学家们尚未给出一个明确答案。

To the linguists, change is the only rule to be obeyed.

对语言学家来说，变化是惟一应该遵循的规则。

With Koro, linguists now count 6,909 languages worldwide.

加上柯罗语，语言学家统计到现金全世界有6909种语言。

And sometimes it's even done unconsciously, linguists say.

语言学家们说，有时候，语码转换甚至是在无意中发生的。

With Koro, linguists now count 6, 909 languages worldwide.

加上柯罗语，语言学家统计到现金全世界有6909种语言。

A century passed before linguists had a serious change of heart.

一个世纪过去了，语言学家们终于改变了初衷——语言起源一事再次被严肃地提起。

But linguists such as Noam Chomsky were highly critical of the research.

但包括诺姆·乔姆斯基(Noam Chomsky)在内的语言学家却对上述研究提出了强烈批评。

Linguists often describe Chinese as a language that goes heavy on verbs.

语言学家常说汉语是一门偏向于动词的语言。

To find new subjects of study, some linguists simply open their front doors.

要寻找新的研究主题，一些语言学家只须打开前门。

Many linguists suggest that the future facing us is bilingual or even trilingual.

很多语言学家提出，我们在未来将使用双语甚至三语。

By age 10, linguists say, our ears become "stiff" and cannot learn new pronunciations.

语言学家说人到了十岁的时候耳朵就“僵化”了，没法再学习新的语音。

They are the professional linguists, who deny that there is such a thing as correctness.

他们是专业的语言学家，他们否认有正确的写作方式这回事。

Table 1 defines a few of the common terms used by linguists and translation specialists.

表1定义了语言学家和专业翻译人员使用的一些常用术语。

"Facebook," as a noun, verb or adjective, was popular with younger linguists, Glowka said.

格洛卡说，年轻的语言学家们更青睐Facebook一词，Facebook既可用作名词，也可用作形容词和动词。

Linguists are chronicling how nomadic communication changes language itself, and thus thought.

游牧式的交流正在改变语言本身以及人们的思维方式，语言学家正致力于这方面的编年史研究。

Most linguists use changes in words or grammatical structures to try to track language evolution.

大部分语言学家通过单词或者语法结构的改变来追踪语言进化的过程。

And most linguists would argue "Yes," that languages are highly constrained in how they do things.

大多数语言学家们都会回答“是的”，语言在很大程度上依赖于语法规则的使用。

And linguists have all of these conditions they say, "No language in the world works this way."

而语言学家们知道这些条件，他们会说“世界上没有语言会这样表达”。