A Russian foreign minister's statement described the accomplished linguist as an outstanding representative.

俄罗斯外交部长发表的一份声明称这位成就卓著的语言学家是杰出的代表。

Richard Epstein is a linguist and professor at Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey.

理查德·爱泼斯坦是一位语言学家，也是罗格斯大学的一名教授。罗格斯大学位于新泽西州的肯顿。

For years, linguists, grammar nerds, and pedants have battled over the Oxford comma.

多年来，语言学家、语法怪才和学究们一直在为牛津逗争论不休。

Some linguists believe it to be a form of proto Lingua Franca, which gradually formed the Belarusian Ukrainian dialectal continuum.

一些语言学家认为它是原始通用语的一种形式，逐渐演变成统一的白俄罗斯乌克兰方言。

Linguists give vowels names to make it easier to talk about them.

语言学家为很多元音字母命名，以此来方便讨论。

The 2019 competition's coming up next week in the U.S. state of Maryland and a group of linguists from Babel, a language learning tool teamed up with folks from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary to determine the hardest words from the past decade.

2019年度词汇大赛将于下周在美国马里兰州举行，来自 Babel 司的一群语言学家将与《韦氏词典》的编们合作，选出过去十年中最难的词汇。

Some linguists even suggest that creaky young ladies are evolving our culture as linguistic innovators.

一些语言学家甚至认为这些活跃的年轻女士正如语言学创造者一样推化的演变。

Our head linguist, he wrote a little note saying this is too slow, too long and underneath it he wrote blackberry.

我们的首席语言学家写一张便条，表示草莓两字太长，太拖沓，同时在这之后，他写“黑莓”。

Maybe not, Rob. Professor Stuart Webb, a linguist from the University of Western Ontario, may be able to help you. He spoke to BBC Radio 4's More or Less programme and explained that you don't need to do that.

或许不是，罗伯。西安大略大学的语言学家斯图尔特•韦伯或许能帮到你。他做客BBC广播司4频道的More or Less节目，并解释你不必学那么多单词。

Linguists tend to avoid the term dialect altogether.

语言学家倾向于避免使用方言一词。

Fransois Grosjean, a linguist at the University of Neuchatel in Switzerland, emphasises necessity.

瑞士纳沙泰尔大学语言学家弗朗索瓦·格罗让强调家族内传承语言的重要性。

Other biologists, linguists and psychologists have probed the same question and have reached little consensus.

虽然其他各路生物学家、语言学家和心理学家也一直在探寻这个问题，却并没有达成多少共识。

She retains a linguist's affection for their methodology.

作为语言学家，她喜欢这些作者编写书籍的方法。

Frank Seifert, a linguist at the University of Amsterdam and the University of Cologne.

阿姆斯特丹大学和科隆大学的语言学家弗兰克·塞弗特说到。

Within Britain, there are various local words that are their own postcode versions of Britishisms, not moving far across what linguists call an isogloss—a place where language use changes over a small geographical space.

我想, 会有法式主义、澳大利亚式主义和加拿大式主义, 它们从国家边界内的小众语言开始, 在我们都开始去那里旅行之前, 这些小众语言在过去不会传播得太远, 在当下也不会传播得太远.

The Grimms were linguists, not novelists; their aim was preservation, not entertainment.

格林兄弟是语言学家，不是小说家，他们的目的是保存故事，而不是娱乐。

I'm not a natural linguist in any way.

无论如何，我都不是天生的语言学家。

University of Texas, Austin linguist Justin Power.

得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的语言学家贾斯汀·鲍尔说到。

But then you're not a linguist, are you, Tucker?

你不是语言学家吧，塔克？

For example, linguists use special language to describe the way language works - words such as prefix, suffix, tense, - or the words I used just now - verbal repertoires, a language variety.

例如，语言学家用特殊的词汇来描述语言的功能，例如前缀、后缀、时态… … 或者我这次用到的词verbal repertoires（语言技能）——是语言的一种。