Linguistics — synonyms, definition

1. linguistics (Noun)

philology

linguistics (Noun) — The scientific study of language.

linguistics (Noun) — The humanistic study of language and literature.

arts humanistic discipline humanities liberal arts science scientific discipline computational linguistics descriptive linguistics diachronic linguistics diachrony dialect geography dialectology etymology historical linguistics lexicology linguistic geography neurolinguistics pragmatics prescriptive linguistics semantics sociolinguistics structural linguistics structuralism synchronic linguistics cognitive science ablative acceptable allophone analytic animate antonomasia aphaeresis apheresis aspectual autosemantic bad base cacuminal cognate complementary distribution complementation corruption derivative descriptive grammar descriptivism • • •