Historical linguistics, also termed diachronic linguistics, is the scientific study of language change over time. Principal concerns of historical linguistics... 22 KB (2,554 words) - 01:45, 26 April 2024 |
Linguistics is the scientific study of language. Linguistics is based on a theoretical as well as a descriptive study of language and is also interlinked... 82 KB (9,260 words) - 17:37, 16 April 2024 |
Comparative linguistics is a branch of historical linguistics that is concerned with comparing languages to establish their historical relatedness. Genetic... 19 KB (2,344 words) - 22:30, 30 August 2023 |
Asterisk (redirect from Asterisk (historical linguistics)) descriptive and not just historical purposes arose in the 20th century.: 334 By analogy with its use in historical linguistics, the asterisk was variously... 59 KB (6,003 words) - 23:44, 16 April 2024 |
borrowed. Campbell, Lyle. Historical Linguistics (4 ed.). MIT Press. Hock, Hans Heinrich. Principles of Historical Linguistics (2 ed.). Mouton de Gruyter... 5 KB (648 words) - 06:00, 7 April 2024 |
 | Language family (redirect from Genetic relationship (linguistics)) term "family" reflects the tree model of language origination in historical linguistics, which makes use of a metaphor comparing languages to people in... 34 KB (4,067 words) - 16:16, 13 April 2024 |
 | Comparative method (redirect from Comparative method (linguistics)) In linguistics, the comparative method is a technique for studying the development of languages by performing a feature-by-feature comparison of two or... 65 KB (7,004 words) - 06:48, 21 March 2024 |
Linguistics is the scientific study of language, involving analysis of language form, language meaning, and language in context. Language use was first... 43 KB (5,334 words) - 07:17, 14 April 2024 |
Semantic change (redirect from Narrowing (historical linguistics)) radically different from the original usage. In diachronic (or historical) linguistics, semantic change is a change in one of the meanings of a word.... 26 KB (3,043 words) - 08:22, 21 March 2024 |
Evolutionary linguistics or Darwinian linguistics is a sociobiological approach to the study of language. Evolutionary linguists consider linguistics as a subfield... 45 KB (4,631 words) - 18:44, 22 March 2024 |