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</script> </div> </div> <div class="right-col main-content topic-page"> <div class="topic-title">Linguistics</div> <div class="topic-tabs"> <div class="topic-tab selected go-link"><a href="/topics/Linguistics">Topic Home</a></div> <div class="topic-tab go-link"><a href="/discussion/Linguistics">Discussion<div class="num-threads-circle ">3</div></a></div> <div class="topic-tab go-link"><a href="/quotations/Linguistics">Quotations</a></div> <div class="topic-tab go-link"><a href="/definition/Linguistics">Definition</a></div> </div> <div class="topic-content"> <div class="tp-section"> <div class="tp-header"> <div class="tp-header-icon"><img src="/images/icons/black_arrow.jpg" /></div> <div class="tp-header-headline">Overview</div> </div> <div class="tp-content article"> <div class="tp-ad"> <div class="default-ad"> </div> <script type="text/javascript">  </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </div> <b>Linguistics</b> is the scientific study of human <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("69837",this,"language.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("69837")' href="/topics/Language">language</a><span class="hp" id="m69837"><div class="hpHeader">Language</div><div class="hpContent"><div class="hpImage" id="i69837"></div>Language may refer either to the specifically human capacity for acquiring and using complex systems of communication, or to a specific instance of such a system of complex communication...</div><br></span>. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context.<br /> <br /> The first is the study of language structure, or <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("20466",this,"grammar.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("20466")' href="/topics/Grammar">grammar</a><span class="hp" id="m20466"><div class="hpHeader">Grammar</div><div class="hpContent"><div class="hpImage" id="i20466"></div>In linguistics, grammar is the set of structural rules that govern the composition of clauses, phrases, and words in any given natural language. The term refers also to the study of such rules, and this field includes morphology, syntax, and phonology, often complemented by phonetics, semantics,...</div><br></span>. This focuses on the system of rules followed by the speakers (or hearers) of a language. It encompasses <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("71094",this,"noimage.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("71094")' href="/topics/Morphology_(linguistics)">morphology</a><span class="hp" id="m71094"><div class="hpHeader">Morphology (linguistics)</div><div class="hpContent">In linguistics, morphology is the identification, analysis and description, in a language, of the structure of morphemes and other linguistic units, such as words, affixes, parts of speech, intonation/stress, or implied context...</div><br></span> (the formation and composition of words), <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("47036",this,"noimage.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("47036")' href="/topics/Syntax">syntax</a><span class="hp" id="m47036"><div class="hpHeader">Syntax</div><div class="hpContent">In linguistics, syntax is the study of the principles and rules for constructing phrases and sentences in natural languages....</div><br></span> (the formation and composition of phrases and sentences from these words), and <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("97664",this,"phonology.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("97664")' href="/topics/Phonology">phonology</a><span class="hp" id="m97664"><div class="hpHeader">Phonology</div><div class="hpContent"><div class="hpImage" id="i97664"></div>Phonology is, broadly speaking, the subdiscipline of linguistics concerned with the sounds of language. That is, it is the systematic use of sound to encode meaning in any spoken human language, or the field of linguistics studying this use...</div><br></span> (sound systems). </div> </div> <div class="tp-section"> <div class="tp-header"> <div class="tp-header-icon"><img src="/images/icons/black_arrow.jpg" /></div> <div class="tp-header-headline">Unanswered Questions</div> </div> <div class="tp-content"> <div class="tp-post"> <div class="tp-post-icon"><img src="/images/icons/question_mark.gif" /></div> <div class="tp-post-headline"><a href="/discussionpost/Why_Saussure_is_important_in_the_field_of_linguistics_64232" class='bluelink2'>Why Saussure is important in the field of linguistics?</a></div> </div> <div class="tp-post"> <div class="tp-post-icon"><img src="/images/icons/question_mark.gif" /></div> <div class="tp-post-headline"><a href="/discussionpost/What_is_the_relationship_between_linguistic_and_morphology_36987" class='bluelink2'>What is the relationship between linguistic and morphology?</a></div> </div> <div class="tp-post"> <div class="tp-post-icon"><img src="/images/icons/question_mark.gif" /></div> <div class="tp-post-headline"><a href="/discussionpost/What_linguistic_is_36985" class='bluelink2'>What linguistic is?</a></div> </div> <div class="more-button-container"><div class="more-button go-link"><a href="/discussion/Linguistics">More</a></div></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="footer"> <a href="http://www.silverdaleinteractive.com/">Silverdale Interactive</a> 漏 2024. 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