Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context. The earliest known descriptive linguistics activities are said to have been Panini's Ashtadhyayi around 500 BCE with the analysis of Sanskrit.
The first subfield of linguistics is the study of language structure, or grammar. This focuses on the system of rul...
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Subdisciplines:
- Phonetics ,
- Psycholinguistics ,
- Evolutionary linguistics ,
- Syntax ,
- Historical linguistics ,
- Sociolinguistics ,
- Language acquisition ,
- Semantics ,
- Morphology ,
- Discourse analysis
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- Languages
