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Linguistics

The science of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and historical linguistics. (Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)

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Abstract

The science of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and historical linguistics. (Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)

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  • Linguistic

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12 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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do not confuse with LANGUAGE, SEMANTICS, TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC, PHONETICS, LITERATURE, PHILOLOGY or VOCABULARY; grammar, syntax, accent go here

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  1. L01w.559w.598w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Linguistics. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D008037. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D008037
  2. Linguistics. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistics
  3. Linguistics. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8162