linguists

The notion of modality derives from Aristotle. It has been a continuous study which interested many logicians, philosophers and linguists.

情态概念源于亚里士多德时期，是许多逻辑学家，哲学家，语言学家长期一直感兴趣的研究问题之一。

Linguists hold that, modern human language is not a bit better than the early language complex.

语言学家们认为，人类现代的语言一点儿也不比早期的语言复杂。

Indeed, it is accepted wisdom among linguists that once a word actually shows up in a slang dictionary, it effectively ceases to be slang.

的确，我们也从语言学家哪里了解到，当一个词汇确定地出现在俚语词典里了，它也不再是俚语了。

It's a bit of a myth that linguists don't believe in rules (although "condemnation" , it's true, isn't really their style).

说语言学家们不相信规则就有点神话色彩了（尽管事实上，“肃正”确实不是他们的风格）。

Linguists and psychologists are trying to understand how people learn and use a language.

语言学家和心理学家正致力于弄清楚人是如何学会并使用语言的。

A certain number of characteristic errors have been pointed out by linguists and can be usefully recalled at this point.

语言学家已指出一定数量的典型错误，如今回顾一下，不无裨益。

Polysemy is one of the features in human languages. It attracts much attention from a great number of cognitive linguists.

一词多义是人类语言极为普遍的现象，也是认知语言学家较为关注的对象。

English tense system has always been one of the main subjects for linguists and grammarians .

英语时态系统一直是语言学家和语法学家研究的主要对象之一。

Linguists seem to have different responses to these questions.

对于这些问题，语言学家们似乎有多种不同的回答。

Some linguists say that it's actually a wholly separate language and not just a dialect of Chinese.

有一些语言学家认为粤语事实上是一门独立的语言，不是中国话的一种。（译者：想分裂中国？）

Modality has long been a major focus of interest for logicians , philosophers and linguists.

情态是许多逻辑学家、哲学家和语言学家长期以来一直感兴趣的研究问题之一。

For this reason, linguists usually say that the difference between a dialect and a language is not clear-cut.

也因此，语言学家往往认为，很难明确界定方言和语言之间的差异。

CM: People often have differing perspectives on this, but linguists do not believe that any one dialect of English is best.

玛博士：人们对这个问题的看法往往各不相同，但语言学家并不认为有哪种英语方言会是最好的一种。

linguists have given us so far a master arbiter like the English writer Henry Watson Fowler. A battle appears won, but the conflict goes on.

Fowler）那样为我们带来权威的英语指导。一场争论似乎已尘埃落定，但矛盾和分歧仍会层出不穷。

Philosophers and linguists domestic and abroad have been debating over the relationship between sound and meaning of the language sign.

古今中外的哲学家们和语言学家们就语言符号的音义之间的关系问题存在着任意论与理据论之争。

Theory of referring has always caught the attention of both linguists and philosophers, as it helps us understand many linguistic phenomena.

指称理论历来受到语言学家和哲学家的重视，对帮助我们理解许多语言现象具有重要意义。

Linguists study the way language works in the brain, and tend to leave condemnations of usage to grammarians.

语言学家研究的是语言在脑内工作的方式，他们倾向于把那些肃正用法的工作留给语法学家。

Cultural-loaded people's names, as one of its important branch, gradually receive more linguists' attention.

人名国俗词语作为其中一个重要的分类，逐渐受到语言学家的关注。

Since the seventies and eighties of the twentieth century, sexism in language is concerned by many Western and Chinese linguists.

语言中的性别歧视问题自二十世纪七八十年代以来受到中西很多语言学家的关注。

Fictive motion, the phenomenon of depicting static scenes in terms of real motion, has attracted attention from many linguists.

虚拟运动，也就是以运动描写静止状态这种语言现象，引起了很多语言学家的注意。