linguistics
noun/lɪŋˈɡwɪstɪks/ · /liŋˈɡwɪstɪks/
Etymology From linguist + -ics, akin to linguistic and Latin linguisticus, coined by English philosopher and historian of science William Whewell in 1847 from German Linguistik.
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The systematic and scholarly study of language.
- a branch of linguistics
- to study linguistics
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- By the end of the century, the APS’s membership included the leaders of the American anthropological establishment, whose primary investigative interests were the ethnography, linguistics, archeology, and physical anthropology of the American Indian, within a theoretical structure that was essentially historical.1997, Jacob W. Gruber, “American Philosophical Society”, in History of Physical Anthropology, page 64:
- Synonyms
- linguistics, speechlore
- Derived terms
57 terms
algebraic linguistics, anthropolinguistics, applied linguistics, archaeolinguistics, armchair linguistics, astrolinguistics, biolinguistics, clinical linguistics, cognitive linguistics, comparative linguistics, computational linguistics, contact linguistics, contrastive linguistics, corpus linguistics, critical applied linguistics, cryptolinguistics, culinary linguistics, cunning linguistics, cyberlinguistics, demolinguistics, diachronic linguistics, ecolinguistics, ethnolinguistics, Eurolinguistics, evolutionary linguistics, folk linguistics, forensic linguistics, functional linguistics, geolinguistics, historical linguistics, interlinguistics, internet linguistics, lavender linguistics, macrolinguistics, metalinguistics, microlinguistics, neolinguistics, netlinguistics, neurolinguistics, paedolinguistics, palaeolinguistics, paleolinguistics, paralinguistics, patholinguistics, pedolinguistics, phylolinguistics, protolinguistics, pseudolinguistics, pseudo-linguistics, psycholinguistics, quantitative linguistics, raciolinguistics, sign linguistics, sociolinguistics, text linguistics, theolinguistics, xenolinguistics- Related terms
47 terms
linguicist, linguist, linguistic, linguistical, linguistically, diction, epigraphy, grammar, morphology, philology, phonetics, phonology, pragmatics, semantics, syntax, language, dialect, word, pronunciation, sense, meaning, understanding, etymology, word origin, inflection, declension, conjugation, derivation, gradation, etymon, root, morpheme, affix, prefix, suffix, combining form, compound, lexeme, phoneme, grapheme, lexical item, term, phrase, clause, sentence, corpus, collocation- Holonyms
- social science
- Meronyms
25 terms
phonetics, phonology, phonemics, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, philology, algebraic linguistics, applied linguistics, biolinguistics, clinical linguistics, comparative linguistics, computational linguistics, diachronic linguistics, ecolinguistics, Eurolinguistics, evolutionary linguistics, historical linguistics, interlinguistics, neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics, sign linguistics, sociolinguistics, xenolinguistics