informant
See also: Informant
English edit
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informant (plural informants)
- One who relays confidential information to someone, especially to the police; an informer.
- 2022 October 16, Jenna Scherer, “An enticing House Of The Dragon crowns Westeros' new ruler”, in AV Club[1]:
- One of her chief informants is Alicent’s handmaiden Talya (Alexis Rabin), whose inside info runs so deep that she’s the first to catch wind of Viserys’ death.
- (linguistics) A native speaker who acts as a linguistic reference for a language being studied. The informant demonstrates native pronunciation, provides grammaticality judgments regarding linguistic well-formedness, and may also explain cultural references and other important contextual information.
- 1977, A. E. Kibrik, The methodology of field investigations in linguistics:
- The only material the linguist has to begin with are the informant's grammatical utterances in the target language pronounced arbitrarily in a natural or assigned communicative situation or stimulated artificially by the investigator.
- 2003, Sergei Nirenburg, H. L. Somers, Yorick Wilks, Readings in machine translation, page 116:
- The informant learns his language by formal training and, more importantly, by constant exposure to its use. He cannot repeat to the linguist what he has never seen or heard.
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one who relays confidential information
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lingustics: native speaker who acts as a reference
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Catalan edit
Verb edit
informant
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed, more probably from French or German than from English due to the word's ultimate stress.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
informant m (plural informanten, diminutive informantje n)
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Participle edit
informant
Further reading edit
- “informant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin edit
Verb edit
īnfōrmant
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