• English Language and Linguistics is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering linguistics and published three times a year by Cambridge University Press...
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  • Applied linguistics is an interdisciplinary field which identifies, investigates, and offers solutions to language-related real-life problems. Some of...
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  • Corpus linguistics is the study of a language as that language is expressed in its text corpus (plural corpora), its body of "real world" text. Corpus...
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  • LGBT linguistics is the study of language as used by members of LGBT communities. Related or synonymous terms include lavender linguistics, advanced by...
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  • Linguistics is the scientific study of language. Linguistics is based on a theoretical as well as a descriptive study of language and is also interlinked...
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    English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England. The...
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    reflects the tree model of language origination in historical linguistics, which makes use of a metaphor comparing languages to people in a biological...
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  • Computational linguistics is an interdisciplinary field concerned with the computational modelling of natural language, as well as the study of appropriate...
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  • linguistics, also termed diachronic linguistics, is the scientific study of language change over time. Principal concerns of historical linguistics include:...
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  • Language change is variation over time in a language's features. It is studied in several subfields of linguistics: historical linguistics, sociolinguistics...
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  • Retrieved 19 September 2020. "Language Typology: Analytic versus Synthetic Languages". ELLO (English Language and Linguistics Online). Retrieved 19 September...
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  • of language, or the branch of linguistics that inquires into the nature of language and seeks to answer fundamental questions as to what language is,...
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  • outline is provided as an overview and topical guide to linguistics: Linguistics is the scientific study of language. Someone who engages in this study...
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    such, is a subfield of linguistics. Someone who engages in this study is called a creolist. The precise number of creole languages is not known, particularly...
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  • Anthropological linguistics is the subfield of linguistics and anthropology which deals with the place of language in its wider social and cultural context, and its...
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  • Modern English. But see Fausto Cercignani, On the alleged existence of a vowel /y:/ in early Modern English, in “English Language and Linguistics”, 26/2...
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  • "time") considers a language at a moment in time without taking its history into account. Synchronic linguistics aims at describing a language at a specific...
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    Forensic linguistics, legal linguistics, or language and the law, is the application of linguistic knowledge, methods, and insights to the forensic context...
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  • In linguistics, productivity is the degree to which speakers of a language use a particular grammatical process, especially in word formation. It compares...
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  • "Japanese-made English", from "wasei" (Japanese made) and "eigo" (English), in other words, "English words coined in Japan") are Japanese-language expressions...
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  • English language, the history of the English language, English language learning and teaching, and the study of World of English. English linguistics...
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  • Old English (Englisċ, pronounced [ˈeŋɡliʃ]), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern...
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  • The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, first published in 1994 (edited by Ronald E. Asher), with a 2nd edition in 2006 (edited by Keith Brown),...
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  • In linguistics, a conservative form, variety, or feature of a language is one that has changed relatively little across the language's history, or which...
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  • In the study of language, description or descriptive linguistics is the work of objectively analyzing and describing how language is actually used (or...
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  • linguistics. Language contact can occur at language borders, between adstratum languages, or as the result of migration, with an intrusive language acting...
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  • Modern English has moved towards a mostly analytic language. Unlike English, many languages use suffixes to specify subjects and objects and word cases...
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    English and are learning to speak and write English, commonly among students. Language education for people learning English may be known as English as...
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  • dimensions and power relations involved in mainstream applied linguistics, in areas like language teaching, language policy and planning, language testing...
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  • Grammar of the English Language (CamGEL) is a descriptive grammar of the English language. Its primary authors are Rodney Huddleston and Geoffrey K. Pullum...
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