Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning)...

Historical linguistics, also known as diachronic linguistics, is the scientific study of how languages change over time. It seeks to understand the nature...

In 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...

Computational linguistics is an interdisciplinary field concerned with the computational modelling of natural language, as well as the study of appropriate...

known for his work in linguistics, political activism, and social criticism. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major...

linguistics. Models and theoretical accounts of cognitive linguistics are considered as psychologically real, and research in cognitive linguistics aims...

In linguistics, a compound is a lexeme (less precisely, a word or sign) that consists of more than one stem. Compounding, composition or nominal composition...

metaphor borrowed from biology, with the tree model used in historical linguistics analogous to a family tree, or to phylogenetic trees of taxa used in...

Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. Vol. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton...

Structural linguistics, or structuralism, in linguistics, denotes schools or theories in which language is conceived as a self-contained, self-regulating...

up linguistics in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Linguistics is a field of study. Linguistics may also refer to these publications: Linguistics (journal)...

In linguistics, prosody (/ˈprɒsədi, ˈprɒz-/) is the study of elements of speech that are not individual phonetic segments (vowels and consonants) but...

Applied linguistics is a practical use of language. Applied linguistics is an interdisciplinary field. Major branches of applied linguistics include bilingualism...

Functional linguistics is an approach to the study of language characterized by taking systematically into account the speaker's and the hearer's side...

In linguistics and grammar, a sentence is a linguistic expression, such as the English example "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." In traditional...

guide to linguistics: Linguistics is the scientific study of language. Someone who engages in this study is called a linguist. Linguistics can be theoretical...

Comparative linguistics is a branch of historical linguistics that is concerned with comparing languages to establish their historical relatedness. Genetic...

Corpus linguistics is an empirical method for the study of language by way of a text corpus (plural corpora). Corpora are balanced, often stratified collections...

Theoretical linguistics is a term in linguistics that, like the related term general linguistics, can be understood in different ways. Both can be taken...

ISBN 978-3-11-085479-4. Hogg 1992, p. 96. Crystal, David (2008). A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics 6th ed. Blackwell Publishing. doi:10.1002/9781444302776...

In linguistics, romanization is the conversion of text from a different writing system to the Roman (Latin) script, or a system for doing so. Methods...

In linguistics, syntax (/ˈsɪntæks/ SIN-taks) is the study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences. Central...

O'Grady, J. Archibald, M. Aronoff and J. Rees-Miller (eds) Contemporary Linguistics. pp. 537-590. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's. Schilling-Estes, Natalies...

Microlinguistics is a branch of linguistics that concerns itself with the study of language systems in the abstract, without regard to the meaning or...

a subfield within linguistics, etymology has become a more rigorously scientific study. Most directly tied to historical linguistics, philology, and semiotics...

Critical applied linguistics (CALx) is an interdisciplinary critical approach to English applied linguistics. One of the central concerns in this approach...

In linguistics, a stratum (Latin for 'layer') or strate is a historical layer of language that influences or is influenced by another language through...

"type"+"writ"+"er", and "can"+"not"). Since the beginning of the study of linguistics, numerous attempts at defining what a word is have been made, with many...

diachronic (from δια- "through" and χρόνος "time") approach, as in historical linguistics, considers the development and evolution of a language through history...

In the study of language, description or descriptive linguistics is the work of objectively analyzing and describing how language is actually used (or...