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Linguistics

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Linguistics is the study of Language with a capital "L." Linguistics views Language as a means of communication and studies how particular languages accomplish this. On the other hand, a linguist may either be a person trained in Linguistics or a person proficient in many Languages. This is a source of a lot of confusion and a strange feature of English usage.

[Descriptive linguistics]? is divided into a number of fields.

phonetics
phonology? and phonemes
morphology? and morphemes
syntax
semantics?

One speaks also of philology.

Other areas within linguistics:

etymology

Linguistics is also studied with other disciplines, thus:

[historical linguistics]]
[comparative linguistics]?
[socio linguistics]?
[psycho linguistics]?
[childs aquisition of language]?
evolutionary linguistics
anthropology

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