Individual #linguistics  the scientific study of language
  instance of:  scientific_discipline
  url:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistics
  part of:  cognitive_science
  >part:  computational_linguistics__computationallinguistic  the use of computers for linguistic research and applications
     >part:  machine_translation__machinetranslation__MT  the use of computers to translate from one language to another
  >part:  dialect_geography__dialectgeography__linguistic_geography  the study of the geographical distribution of linguistic features
  >part:  etymology.studies  the study of the sources and development of words
     >part:  lexicostatistics  a statistical technique used in glottochronology; used to estimate how long ago different languages evolved from a common source language
  >part:  historical_linguistics__diachronic_linguistics__comparative_linguistics__comparativelinguistic  the study of linguistic change
     >part:  etymology.studies  the study of the sources and development of words
  >part:  lexicology  the branch of linguistics that studies the lexical component of language
     >part:  onomastics  the branch of lexicology that studies the origins and history of proper names
  >part:  sociolinguistics  the study of language in relation to its sociocultural context
  >part:  structuralism__structural_linguistics  linguistics defined as the analysis of formal structures in a text or discourse
  >part:  synchronic_linguistics__descriptive_linguistics__descriptivelinguistic  an explanation of a person's mastery of their native language
     >part:  grammar.studies  studies of the formation of basic linguistic units
        >part:  syntax.studies  studies of the rules for forming admissible sentences
        >part:  morphology.grammar.studies  studies of the rules for forming admissible words
           >part:  inflectional_morphology__accidence  the part of grammar that deals with the inflections of words
           >part:  derivational_morphology  the part of grammar that deals with the derivations of words
           >part:  compound_morphology  the part of grammar that deals with combinations of simple words into compound words
     >part:  phonology__phonemics__phonemic  the study of the sound system of a given language and the analysis and classification of its phonemes
     >part:  morphophonemics__morphophonemic  the study of the phonological realization of the allomorphs of the morphemes of a language
  >part:  theoretical_linguistics__theoreticallinguistic
     >part:  phonetics__phonetic  the branch of acoustics concerned with speech processes including its production and perception and acoustic analysis
     >part:  phonology__phonemics__phonemic  the study of the sound system of a given language and the analysis and classification of its phonemes
     >part:  morphology.grammar.studies  studies of the rules for forming admissible words
     >part:  syntax.studies  studies of the rules for forming admissible sentences
     >part:  semantics__semantic  the study of language meaning
        >part:  deixis  the function of pointing or specifying from the perspective of a participant in an act of speech or writing; aspects of a communication whose interpretation depends on knowledge of the context in which the communication occurs
        >part:  lexical_semantics__lexicalsemantic
        >part:  semantics_of_logic  approaches that logicians have introduced to understand and determine that part of meaning in which they are interested; the logician traditionally is not interested in the sentence as uttered but in the proposition, an idealised sentence suitable for logical manipulation
           >part:  model-theoretic_semantics__modeltheoreticsemantic  the most widepsread approach, and is based on the idea that the meaning of the various parts of the propositions are given by the possible ways we can give a recursively specified group of interpretation functions from them to some predefined mathematical domains: an interpretation of first-order predicate logic is given by a mapping from terms to a universe of individuals, and a mapping from propositions to the truth values "true" and "false"
           >part:  proof-theoretic_semantics__prooftheoreticsemantic  approach associating the meaning of propositions with the roles that they can play in inferences
     >part:  stylistics
        >part:  prescription
     >part:  pragmatics  the study of language use
  >part:  applied_linguistics__appliedlinguistic
  >part:  cognitive_linguistics__cognitivelinguistic

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