Linguistics - Wikipedia
WEBLinguistics is the scientific study of language. Linguistics is based on a theoretical as well as a descriptive study of language and is also interlinked with the applied fields of language studies and language learning, which entails the study of specific languages.
History of linguistics - Wikipedia
WEBToday, linguistics encompasses a large number of scientific approaches and has developed still more subfields, including applied linguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, and computational linguistics.
Morphology (linguistics) - Wikipedia
WEBIn linguistics, morphology (mor-FOL-ə-jee) is the study of words, including the principles by which they are formed, and how they relate to one another within a language. Most approaches to morphology investigate the structure of words in terms of morphemes, which are the smallest units in a language with some independent meaning.
Linguistics - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
WEBLinguistics is the study of language. People who study language are called linguists. There are five main parts of linguistics: the study of sounds ( phonology ), the study of parts of words, like "un-" and "-ing" ( morphology ), the study of word order and how sentences are made ( syntax ), the study of the meaning of words ( semantics ), and ...
Outline of linguistics - Wikipedia
WEBLinguistics is a multi-disciplinary field of research that combines tools from natural sciences, social sciences, formal sciences, and the humanities. Historically, there has been some lack of consensus on the disciplinary classification of linguistics, particularly theoretical linguistics.
Linguistics | Definition, Examples, Science | Britannica
WEBLinguistics, the scientific study of language. The word was first used in the middle of the 19th century to emphasize the difference between a newer approach to the study of language that was then developing and the more traditional approach of philology. The differences were and are largely.
Historical linguistics - Wikipedia
WEBAnthropology. Historical linguistics, also termed diachronic linguistics, is the scientific study of language change over time. [1] Principal concerns of historical linguistics include: [2] [3] to explore the impact of cultural and social factors on language evolution.
Theoretical linguistics - Wikipedia
WEBTheoretical linguistics is a term in linguistics that, [1] like the related term general linguistics, [2] can be understood in different ways. Both can be taken as a reference to the theory of language, or the branch of linguistics that inquires into the nature of language and seeks to answer fundamental questions as to what language is, or ...
Linguistic typology - Wikipedia
WEBLinguistic typology (or language typology) is a field of linguistics that studies and classifies languages according to their structural features to allow their comparison. Its aim is to describe and explain the structural diversity and the …
Corpus linguistics - Wikipedia
WEBCorpus linguistics is an empirical method for the study of language by way of a text corpus (plural corpora ). [1] Corpora are balanced, often stratified collections of authentic, "real world", text of speech or writing that aim to represent a given linguistic variety. [1] Today, corpora are generally machine-readable data collections.
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