linguistics

Word family adjectivelinguallinguiformlinguisticlingularlingulateadverblinguallylinguisticallynounlinguistlinguisterlinguisticianlinguisticslinguistrylingulalingua francalingua

Related topics: Linguistics, Languages

lin·guis·tics /lɪŋˈɡwɪstɪks/ noun [uncountableU]

SLthe study of language in general and of particular languages, their structure, grammar, and history 语言学

→ philology

n GRAMMAR: Singular or plural verb?

Linguistics is followed by a singular verb:

Linguistics is the scientific study of language.

Examples from the Corpus

linguistics• If applied linguistics is left exclusively to an elite band of researchers, then the whole object of the exercise disappears.• The use of statistical techniques is not new to computational linguistics.• In all of these areas, there are concepts and insights from linguistics which can contribute to pedagogical understanding.• This type of analysis is used in linguistics, to describe the grammar of sentences.• Syntax has been one of the most widely investigated areas of linguistics and human processing of language has been intensively studied.• Jakobson's essay thus constitutes as strong a claim as can possibly be made for the relevance of linguistics to literary study.• This is written for students of linguistics but also offers a good introduction for the general reader.

单词	linguistics
释义	linguistics Word family adjectivelinguallinguiformlinguisticlingularlingulateadverblinguallylinguisticallynounlinguistlinguisterlinguisticianlinguisticslinguistrylingulalingua francalingua Related topics: Linguistics, Languages lin·guis·tics /lɪŋˈɡwɪstɪks/ ●○○ noun [uncountableU] SLthe study of language in general and of particular languages, their structure, grammar, and history 语言学 → philology n GRAMMAR: Singular or plural verb? Linguistics is followed by a singular verb: Linguistics is the scientific study of language. Examples from the Corpus linguistics• If applied linguistics is left exclusively to an elite band of researchers, then the whole object of the exercise disappears.• The use of statistical techniques is not new to computational linguistics.• In all of these areas, there are concepts and insights from linguistics which can contribute to pedagogical understanding.• This type of analysis is used in linguistics, to describe the grammar of sentences.• Syntax has been one of the most widely investigated areas of linguistics and human processing of language has been intensively studied.• Jakobson's essay thus constitutes as strong a claim as can possibly be made for the relevance of linguistics to literary study.• This is written for students of linguistics but also offers a good introduction for the general reader.
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