释义 |
linguistician|lɪŋgwɪˈstɪʃən| [See -ician.] One who is versed in linguistics.
1895E. W. Fay in Amer. Jrnl. Philol. XVI. 10 This identification of the earlier ‘linguisticians’ has been latterly abandoned. 1897Classical Rev. 94 The earliest linguisticians regarded vī̆ in the words for twenty as a by-form of dvī̆. 1949Studies in Ling. VII. 59, I intend to use linguistician regularly henceforth instead of linguist ‘worker in linguistics’. 1950Ibid. VIII. 1 To one of these, linguistician, I not only cannot subscribe [etc.]... This meaning, exemplified by such words as mortician and beautician, implies pretentiousness rather than precision. 1954English Studies XXXV. 91 In the absence of any..description by native linguisticians, these observations by an experienced teacher of foreign students..deserve the attention. 1967C. L. Wrenn Word & Symbol 7 If..texts may be properly explained by allegory and symbolism without any exact knowledge of their language, then the English language..may as well be left to the linguisticians. |