linguistics
71Columbia School of Linguistics — The Columbia School of Linguistics is a group of linguists with a radically functional and empirical conception of language. According to their school of thought, the main function of language is communication. Columbia School linguistic analyses …
72Sociohistorical linguistics — Sociohistorical linguistics, or historical sociolinguistics, is the study of the relationship between language and society in its historical dimension. A typical question in this field would, for instance, be: “How were the verb endings s and th… …
73Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences — Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Nyelvtudományi Intézete Established 1949 (1949) Field of Research …
74Subject Centre for Languages Linguistics and Area Studies — The Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies (LLAS) is one of 24 subject centres of the Higher Education Academy in the United Kingdom, formed in 2000 as part of the Learning and Teaching Support Network, LLAS is hosted by the… …
75synchronic linguistics — n. the branch of linguistics that analyzes the structure of a language or languages as static, at a given point in their history * * * ▪ linguistics the study of a language at a given point in time. The time studied may be either the… …
76Institute of Linguistics — (Yuyan yanjiusuo) The Institute of Linguistics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences is the premier organization for research in Chinese, Chinese dialects, and applied and theoretical linguistics. Since its establishment in 1950, the… …
77Moscow Student Conference on Linguistics — (MSCL) The Moscow Student Conference on Linguistics (MSCL) is an annual student linguistic conference, which started in 2006. It was first held at the Moscow State University, and since then it has grown to be one of the major conferences on… …
78Metathesis (linguistics) — Sound change and alternation Metathesis Quantitative metathesis …
79Anthropological linguistics — is the study of the relations between language and culture, and the relations between human biology, cognition and language. This strongly overlaps the field of linguistic anthropology, which is the branch of anthropology that studies humans… …
80Focus (linguistics) — Focus is a concept in linguistic theory that deals with how information in one phrase relates to information that has come before. Focus has been analyzed in a variety of ways by linguists. Historically, there have been two main approaches to… …
