分类学者

How to define and categorize these processes has long been one of the discussion focuses for functional grammarians.

如何理解这些过程并对其进行界定和分类，一直是功能语法学者探讨的问题之一。

Language acts as not only a tool of thinking for human beings but also influences and restricts human beings" thought. The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis originated in German linguistics tradition. In the eighteenth century, German scholar Herder once put forth that language was the tool, the content and the style of man"s thought. German linguist Humboldt further asserted that language was the formation organ of "thought", every language consisted of a peculiar view on the world. Boas created American descriptive linguistics by emphasizing on the description of language structure.

假说发端于德国语言学传统，德国学者赫尔得在18世纪就曾提出过&语言是人类思想的工具、内容和形式&，语言学家洪堡特发展其观点，指出语言是&思想形成的器官&、&每一种语言都包含着一个独特的世界观&。20世纪初，德裔美国语言学家鲍阿斯创立以语言的外部形式特征为重点的客观描写主义，并且首次阐述了不同语言是以不同方式对经验进行分类和划分的观点，为假说形成提供了的重要论据和研究的方法论基础。

But we don't care about Battlegrounds.

但我们并不在乎沙场中的显露。

Ah! don't mention it, the butcher's shop is a horror.

啊！不用提了。提到肉，真是糟透了。