LINGUISTICS


Meaning of LINGUISTICS in English

/ling gwis"tiks/ , n. ( used with a sing. v. )

the science of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and historical linguistics.

[ 1850-55; see LINGUISTIC, -ICS ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .