general linguistics

Variant of linguistics

linguistics definition

lin·guis·tics (liŋ gwis′tiks)

noun

  1. the science of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics: sometimes subdivided into descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical, and geographical linguistics
    often general linguistics
  2. the study of the structure, development, etc. of a particular language and its relationship to other languages English linguistics

Etymology: < linguistic

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