informant

informant

informant

1. Present participle of informer.

informant (plural informants)

1. One who relays confidential information to someone, especially to the police; an informer.
2. (linguistics) One who provides information about their language.
   • 1977, A. E. Kibrik, The methodology of field investigations in linguistics

     The only material the linguist has to begin with are the informants 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.

	delatore
	one who relays confidential information

	informatore
	one who relays confidential information

	spia
	one who relays confidential information

sicofante

Altri significati:

One who relays confidential information to someone, especially to the police; an informer.

Traduzione 'veloce'

delatore ,informatore ,spia ,sicofante