linguistics
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Related to linguistics: Applied linguistics
- noun
Synonyms for linguistics
the scientific study of language
Related Words
- linguistic performance
- tone
- complementary distribution
- complementation
- linguistic competence
- feature of speech
- feature
- science
- scientific discipline
- cognitive science
- computational linguistics
- dialect geography
- linguistic geography
- etymology
- diachronic linguistics
- diachrony
- historical linguistics
- grammar
- descriptive grammar
- prescriptive grammar
- phrase structure
- sentence structure
- syntax
- generative grammar
- phonemics
- phonology
- neurolinguistics
- pragmatics
- semantics
- sociolinguistics
- structural linguistics
- structuralism
- synchronic linguistics
- descriptive linguistics
- prescriptive linguistics
- descriptivism
- prescriptivism
- derivative
- descriptor
- form
- signifier
- word form
- root word
- stem
- root
- theme
- radical
- base
- participant role
- semantic role
- postposition
- preposition
- topicalization
- morphophoneme
- phoneme
- allophone
- linguistic rule
- rule
- linguistic universal
- universal
- sign
- phylum
- aphaeresis
- apheresis
- linguistic process
- voice
- obscure
- reduce
- etymologise
- etymologize
- topicalize
- geminate
- reduplicate
- analytic
- uninflected
- synthetic
- animate
- inanimate
- inflected
- early
- middle
- late
- received
- standard
- nonstandard
- polyphonic
- homophonous
- ablative
- aspectual
- prepositional
- vocative