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linguistics - HighBeam Encyclopedia |
 | | LINGUISTICS [linguistics] scientific study of language, covering the structure (morphology and syntax; see grammar), sounds (phonology), and meaning (semantics), as well as the history of the relations of languages to each other and the cultural place of language in human behavior. |
 | | Through the comparison of language structures, such 19th-century European linguists as Jakob Grimm, Rasmus Rask, Karl Brugmann, and Antoine Meillet, as well as the American William Dwight Whitney, did much to establish the existence of the Indo-European family of languages. |
 | | In contrast to theoretical schools of linguistics, workers in applied linguistics in the latter part of the 20th cent. |
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