linguicist

Definitions

1. 1

   Characteristic of or pertaining to linguicism.

   • Alternatively there may have been a lack of political will to achieve more equitable and less linguicist goals.
   • Not to live up to these demands for minority children is linguicist.
2. 2

   One who discriminates on the basis of language.

   • In this context, it seems to have been a major strategic mistake on the part of militant linguicists to have mounted the Official English movement, despite their rather dramatic gains to date.
3. 3

   One who studies language

   One who studies language; a linguist.

   • Let us pass now from a consideration of lexicon to that of morpheme analysis, as practised by linguicists.
   • Some linguicists (see footnote 13 below) avoid all semantic and psychological criteria in their analyses and believe "that such criteria play no part, or at least need not play one, in the theoretical foundation of phonemics";

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