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linguistics
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linguistics
n.
scientific study of language
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Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of language. There are three aspects to this study: language form, language meaning, and language in context. The earliest activities in the description of language have been attributed to the 4th century BCE Indian grammarian Pāṇini, who was an early student of linguistics and wrote a formal description of the Sanskrit language in his .
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linguistics
Noun
1. the scientific study of language
(hypernym) science, scientific discipline
(hyponym) computational linguistics
(part-holonym) cognitive science
(class) analytic, uninflected
2. the humanistic study of language and literature
(synonym) philology
(hypernym) humanistic discipline, humanities, liberal arts, arts
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linguistics
n.
jazykověda
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linguistics
Rzecz.
językoznawstwo; lingwistyka
