- needtoButalinguist'spersonaljudg
- But a linguist's personal judgements are often
uncertain ,or disagree with the judgements of
other linguists,at which point recourse is
needed to more objective methods of enquiry,
using non-linguists as informants.然而，一名家的个人判断通常要么不确定，要么就与其它语言学家的意见相左，此时就需
- 呵呵，此处的to结构不是跟在needed后，而是跟在recourse后。在英语中，recourse to是固定搭配，意为“对...的借助”。
按照正常语序，该说：recourse to more objective methods of enquiry is needed，可是这样一来，就会显得头重脚轻，所以为了照顾句子的平衡，做了眼下的调整。