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