linguistics

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noun

1. the scientific study of language (Freq. 2)
• Derivationally related forms:
linguistic, linguist
• Members of this Topic:
analytic, uninflected, synthetic, animate, inanimate,
cacuminal, retroflex, inflected, early, Old, middle,
late, Modern, New, cognate, standard, received,
acceptable, nonstandard, bad, unacceptable, unaccepted, suprasegmental,
segmental, autosemantic, synsemantic, radical, polyphonic, homophonous,
ablative, aspectual, prepositional, vocative, linguistic performance, tone,
complementary distribution, complementation, linguistic competence, feature of speech, feature, grammar,
descriptive grammar, prescriptive grammar, syntax, sentence structure, phrase structure, generative grammar,
phonology, phonemics, descriptivism, prescriptivism, derivative, form,
word form, signifier, descriptor, root, root word, base,
stem, theme, semantic role, participant role, postposition, preposition,
topicalization, morphophoneme, phoneme, allophone, rule, linguistic rule,
universal, linguistic universal, sign, phylum, aphaeresis, apheresis,
linguistic process, voice, obscure, reduce, etymologize, etymologise,
topicalize, reduplicate, geminate
• Hypernyms:
science, scientific discipline
• Hyponyms:
computational linguistics, dialect geography, linguistic geography, etymology, historical linguistics,
diachronic linguistics, diachrony, neurolinguistics, pragmatics, semantics, sociolinguistics,
structuralism, structural linguistics, synchronic linguistics, descriptive linguistics, prescriptive linguistics
• Part Holonyms:
cognitive science
2. the humanistic study of language and literature
• Syn:
philology
• Derivationally related forms:
philological (for: philology), philologist (for: philology), linguistic, linguist
• Hypernyms:
humanistic discipline, humanities, liberal arts, arts
• Hyponyms:
dialectology, lexicology