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The linguistics expert testified as to the meaning of "event". It would cost the insurance company an additional 3.5 billion dollars if the jury determined that the Twin Towers were brought down by two events instead of one.
linguistics = the study of language

At the University of Washington and later at Seattle University, he immersed himself in anthropology, history, philosophy, and linguistics, accumulating hundreds of credit hours without collecting a degree.† (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

My research is in the field of sexual linguistics, specifically the way that young people discuss sex and related questions.† (source) John Green, Looking for Alaska, 2005

Art might know of someone—a linguistics student, a retired professor old enough to be versed in the traditional characters and not just the simplified ones.† (source)

Linguistics?† (source)

The actress's wrist was locked in the linguistics professor's grip; she could do nothing to pry it loose.† (source)

In the second half of the twentieth century, "mere matters of words" became the study of an ever-expanding branch of the social sciences, linguistics.† (source)

My real education in lupine linguistics began a few days after Ootek's arrival.† (source) Farley Mowat, Never Cry Wolf, 1963

It's the story of a middle-aged man who'd come from a farm in the Middle West, who's taciturn and unhappy as a teacher of linguistics and now has reached a critical point in his life.† (source)

A linguistics colleague of Art's had given Ruth his name.† (source)

The Ebonics story consumed laymen and the linguistics community.† (source)

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Merdesaid the linguistics professor (in perfect French).† (source)

Art worked as a linguistics consultant, this year on cases involving deaf prisoners who had been arrested and tried without access to interpreters.† (source)

Over decaf cappuccinos one evening, she learned that Art had grown up in New York, and had a doctorate in linguistics from UC Berkeley.† (source)

When at last the linguistics professor let go of the American actress's wrist, the German pop singer with the black beard and white flag called out her name.† (source)

Of the making of books and articles about linguistics there is no end, and much study apparently does not weary the antagonists' flesh.† (source)

Suddenly a Frenchwoman, a professor of linguistics, grabbed the actress by the wrist and said (in terrible-sounding English), This is a parade for doctors who have come to care for mortally ill Cambodians, not a publicity stunt for movie stars!† (source)

Linguistics, the science of language, truly flowered as an academic discipline in the 1960s, followed more recently by sociolinguistics, the study of the interaction of language and society.† (source)

Four hundred and seventy doctors, intellectuals, and reporters made their way to the large ballroom of an international hotel, where more doctors, actors, singers, and professors of linguistics had gathered with several hundred journalists bearing notebooks, tape recorders, and cameras, still and video.† (source)

Two other linguists, Cecilia Cutler and Renee Blake of the Linguistics Department at New York University, studied the attitudes of teachers in six New York high schools.† (source)

Such a comparison is made possible partially by the dialect survey begun by Bert Vaux, a linguistics professor at Harvard, which asks people in different states about a list of words and expressions.† (source)

Simon regarded the publication of Webster's Third New International Dictionary in 1961 as a "resounding victory" for descriptive linguistics and "seminally sinister" for its permissiveness.† (source)

Descriptive (or structural) linguistics had not yet arrived—that statistical, populist, sociological approach, whose adherents claimed to be merely recording and describing the language as it was used by anyone and everyone, without imposing elitist judgments on it.† (source)

Comparative linguistics has traced even deeper roots, reaching back beyond the early third millennium when the peoples who would become the Greeks first broke off from their kindred linguistic groups and descended into the Balkan peninsula.† (source) Homer, The Iliad, -850 B.C.

It was only with aspirin and something Fay concocted for me that I was able to finish my linguistic analysis of Urdu verb forms and send the paper to the International Linguistics Bulletin.† (source)

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