grammarian

How To Use grammarian In A Sentence

• But what is most striking is that both Schleicher and the Neogrammarians constantly insist upon the fact that they deal with laws. (One can think of the Ausnahmlosigkeit principle of the Neogrammarians).
• a grammarian and a grammatist, applying the former term to men of real erudition, the latter to those whose pretensions to learning are moderate; and this opinion Orbilius supports by examples. De vita Caesarum
• What we may think of as the old, positivist pursuit of diachronic sound change was, in the last third of the nineteenth century, the new new thing (recall that it was from the Neogrammarians that Saussure emerged).
• Kelsie Harder The State University College at Potsdam Caryl Johnston Boston, Massachusetts Notes from the Compound World According to the famed mytho-grammarian Maxim Mütter, compounds (snow-white, rose-red, upsy-daisy, shaggy-dog, etc.) are the harbingers of a new epoch of consciousness. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 1
• Back home, in the unnamed city, the grammarian's fourth daughter came of age.
• She employed, not by way of stylistic refinement, but in order to correct her imprudences, abrupt breaches of syntax not unlike that figure which the grammarians call anacoluthon or some such name.
• A grammarian knows, or is at least supposed to know ( all about ) grammar.
• Pertinent comments made by linguists and grammarians all focus however on the meaning of the verb of perception alone.
• The late Theodore Bernstein, alone a language scholar among the pop grammarians, denied that he called nonstandard usages "good" and VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 3
• Greek grammarian who taught at Rhodes and Rome and wrote an influential synthesis of Greek grammar, the Art of Grammar.