Word

linguistics, n.
freq. cnt. 2

the scientific study of language
<noun.cognition> freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 2

linguistics

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

linguistic linguist

semantic pointers

member of this domain (topic)

analytic, uninflected synthetic animate inanimate cacuminal, retroflex inflected uninflected descriptive early Old middle late Modern, New New cognate standard, received acceptable nonstandard bad unacceptable, unaccepted suprasegmental segmental autosemantic synsemantic radical polyphonic homophonous ablative aspectual prepositional vocative linguistic performance tone complementary distribution, complementation linguistic competence feature of speech, feature grammar descriptive grammar prescriptive grammar syntax, sentence structure, phrase structure syntax generative grammar phonology, phonemics descriptivism prescriptivism derivative form, word form, signifier, descriptor stem, root, root word, base, theme, radical semantic role, participant role postposition preposition topicalization morphophoneme phoneme allophone rule, linguistic rule universal, linguistic universal sign phylum aphaeresis, apheresis linguistic process voice obscure reduce etymologize, etymologise topicalize reduplicate, geminate

hypernym

science, scientific discipline

part holonym

cognitive science

hyponym

computational linguistics dialect geography, linguistic geography etymology historical linguistics, diachronic linguistics, diachrony neurolinguistics pragmatics semantics sociolinguistics structuralism, structural linguistics synchronic linguistics descriptive linguistics prescriptive linguistics

the humanistic study of language and literature
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linguistics philology

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

linguistic linguist

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

philological philologist

semantic pointers

hypernym

arts, liberal arts, humanistic discipline, humanities

hyponym

dialectology lexicology