glossologist

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glossologist

Archaic.
1. a linguist; a philologist.
2. one who compiles glossaries.

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He viewed language as teleological and Adamic; "What glossologist" Whewell enquires in response to Chambers, "will venture to declare that the efficacy of such causes has been uniform; that the influences which mould a language ...

Tennyson's Maud (1855) and the "unmeaning of names": geology, language theory, and dialogics

For once, Schleicher boasted in Darwinism Tested by the Science of Language (1863), "the glossologist has an advantage over his brother naturalists in this respect.

Reading the fossils of faith: Thomas Henry Huxley and the evolutionary subtext of the synoptic problem

I would rather refrain from calling the Lindisfarne interlinear texts glosses and would rather suggest other terms: either a glossal translation or continuous interlinear glosses, the latter expression is sometimes used by glossologists. Though the Old English text is indeed more than a gloss, it cannot, however, aspire to be called a translation in the sense of King Alfred's or Abbot AElfric's enterprises.