Thesaurus:linguistics

Thesaurus

linguistics

English

Noun

Sense: the scientific study of language

Synonyms

• linguistics
• speechlore

Holonyms

• social science    [⇒ thesaurus]

Meronyms

Single-word meronyms

• phonetics
• phonology
• phonemics
• morphology
• syntax
• semantics
• pragmatics
• philology    [⇒ thesaurus]

Multi-word meronyms

• algebraic linguistics
• applied linguistics
• biolinguistics
• clinical linguistics
• comparative linguistics
• computational linguistics
• diachronic linguistics
• ecolinguistics
• Eurolinguistics
• evolutionary linguistics
• historical linguistics
• interlinguistics
• neurolinguistics
• psycholinguistics
• sociolinguistics
• xenolinguistics

Various

Scientist

• linguist    [⇒ thesaurus]

Some key concepts in linguistics

• language    [⇒ thesaurus]
• dialect
• word    [⇒ thesaurus]
• pronunciation
• sense    [⇒ thesaurus]
• meaning
• understanding
• etymology
• word origin
• morphology
• inflection
• declension
• conjugation
• derivation
• gradation
• etymon
• root
• morpheme    [⇒ thesaurus]
• affix
• prefix
• suffix
• combining form    [⇒ thesaurus]
• compound
• lexeme
• phoneme
• grapheme
• lexical item
• term    [⇒ thesaurus]
• phrase    [⇒ thesaurus]
• clause
• sentence
• grammar
• syntax
• corpus
• collocation

Further reading

• “560. language” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “linguistics” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
• "linguistics" in WordNet 3.1, Princeton University, 2011.