Although
the borderline between various linguistic units is not always sharp
and clear, we shall try to define every new term on its first
appearance at once simply and unambiguously, if not always very
rigorously. The approximate definition of the term word
has already been given in the opening page of the book.
The
important point to remember about
definitions
is that they should indicate the most essential characteristic
features of the notion expressed by the term under discussion, the
features by which this notion is distinguished from other similar
notions. For instance, in defining the word one must distinguish it
from other linguistic units, such as the phoneme, the morpheme, or
the word-group. In contrast with a definition, a description
aims at enumerating all the essential features of a notion.
To
make things easier we shall begin by a preliminary description,
illustrating it with some examples.
The
word
may be described as the basic unit of language. Uniting meaning and
form, it is composed of one or more morphemes, each consisting of one
or more spoken sounds or their written representation. Morphemes as
we have already said are also meaningful units but they cannot be
used independently, they are always parts of words whereas words can
be used as a complete utterance (e. g. Listen!).
The
combinations of morphemes within words are subject to certain linking
conditions. When a derivational affix is added a new word is formed,
thus, listen
and
listener
are
different words. In fulfilling different grammatical functions words
may take functional affixes: listen
and
listened
are
different forms of the same word. Different forms of the same word
can be also built analytically with the help of auxiliaries. E.g.:
The
world should listen then as I am listening now (Shelley).
When
used in sentences together with other words they are syntactically
organised. Their freedom of entering into syntactic constructions is
limited by many factors, rules and constraints (e. g.: They
told me this story but
not *They
spoke me this story).
The
definition of every basic notion is a very hard task: the definition
of a word is one of the most difficult in linguistics because the
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simplest
word has many different aspects. It has a sound form because it is a
certain arrangement of phonemes; it has its morphological structure,
being also a certain arrangement of morphemes; when used in actual
speech, it may occur in different word forms, different syntactic
functions and signal various meanings. Being the central element of
any language system, the word is a sort of focus for the problems of
phonology, lexicology, syntax, morphology and also for some other
sciences that have to deal with language and speech, such as
philosophy and psychology, and probably quite a few other branches of
knowledge. All attempts to characterise the word are necessarily
specific for each domain of science and are therefore considered
one-sided by the representatives of all the other domains and
criticised for incompleteness. The variants of definitions were so
numerous that some authors (A. Rossetti, D.N. Shmelev) collecting
them produced works of impressive scope and bulk.
A
few examples will suffice to show that any definition is conditioned
by the aims and interests of its author.
Thomas
Hobbes (1588-1679),
one
of the great English philosophers, revealed a materialistic approach
to the problem of nomination when he wrote that words are not mere
sounds but names of matter. Three centuries later the great Russian
physiologist I.P. Pavlov (1849-1936)
examined
the word in connection with his studies of the second signal system,
and defined it as a universal signal that can substitute any other
signal from the environment in evoking a response in a human
organism. One of the latest developments of science and engineering
is machine translation. It also deals with words and requires a
rigorous definition for them. It runs as follows: a word is a
sequence of graphemes which can occur between spaces, or the
representation of such a sequence on morphemic level.
Within
the scope of linguistics the word has been defined syntactically,
semantically, phonologically and by combining various approaches.
It
has been syntactically defined for instance as “the minimum
sentence” by H. Sweet and much later by L. Bloomfield as “a
minimum free form”. This last definition, although structural in
orientation, may be said to be, to a certain degree, equivalent to
Sweet’s, as practically it amounts to the same thing: free forms
are later defined as “forms which occur as sentences”.
E.
Sapir takes into consideration the syntactic and semantic aspects
when he calls the word “one of the smallest completely satisfying
bits of isolated ‘meaning’, into which the sentence resolves
itself”. Sapir also points out one more, very important
characteristic of the word, its indivisibility:
“It cannot be cut into without a disturbance of meaning, one or two
other or both of the several parts remaining as a helpless waif on
our hands”. The essence of indivisibility will be clear from a
comparison of the article a
and
the prefix a-
in
a
lion and
alive.
A lion is
a word-group because we can separate its elements and insert other
words between them: a
living lion, a dead lion. Alive is
a word: it is indivisible, i.e. structurally impermeable: nothing can
be inserted between its elements. The morpheme a-
is
not free, is not a word. The
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situation
becomes more complicated if we cannot be guided by solid spelling.’
“The Oxford English Dictionary», for instance, does not
include the
reciprocal pronouns each
other and
one
another under
separate headings, although
they should certainly be analysed as word-units, not as word-groups
since they have become indivisible: we now say with
each other and
with
one another instead
of the older forms one
with another or
each
with the other.1
Altogether
is
one word according to its spelling, but how is one to treat all
right, which
is rather a similar combination?
When
discussing the internal cohesion of the word the English linguist
John Lyons points out that it should be discussed in terms of two
criteria “positional
mobility”
and
“uninterruptability”.
To illustrate the first he segments into morphemes the following
sentence:
the
—
boy
—
s
—
walk
—
ed
—
slow
—
ly
—
up
—
the
—
hill
The
sentence may be regarded as a sequence of ten morphemes, which occur
in a particular order relative to one another. There are several
possible changes in this order which yield an acceptable English
sentence:
slow
—
ly
—
the
—
boy
—
s
—
walk
—
ed
—
up
—
the
—
hill
up —
the
—
hill
—
slow
—
ly
—
walk
—
ed
—
the
—
boy
—
s
Yet
under all the permutations certain groups of morphemes behave as
‘blocks’ —
they
occur always together, and in the same order relative to one another.
There is no possibility of the sequence s
—
the
—
boy,
ly —
slow,
ed —
walk.
“One
of the characteristics of the word is that it tends to be internally
stable (in terms of the order of the component morphemes), but
positionally mobile (permutable with other words in the same
sentence)”.2
A
purely semantic treatment will be found in Stephen Ullmann’s
explanation: with him connected discourse, if analysed from the
semantic point of view, “will fall into a certain number of
meaningful segments which are ultimately composed of meaningful
units. These meaningful units are called words.»3
The
semantic-phonological approach may be illustrated by A.H.Gardiner’s
definition: “A word is an articulate sound-symbol in its aspect of
denoting something which is spoken about.»4
The
eminent French linguist A. Meillet (1866-1936)
combines
the semantic, phonological and grammatical criteria and advances a
formula which underlies many subsequent definitions, both abroad and
in our country, including the one given in the beginning of this
book: “A word is defined by the association of a particular meaning
with a
1
Sapir
E. Language.
An Introduction to the Study of Speech. London, 1921,
P.
35.
2 Lyons,
John. Introduction
to Theoretical Linguistics. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1969.
P. 203.
3 Ullmann
St. The
Principles of Semantics. Glasgow, 1957.
P.
30.
4 Gardiner
A.H. The
Definition of the Word and the Sentence //
The
British Journal of Psychology. 1922.
XII.
P. 355
(quoted
from: Ullmann
St.,
Op.
cit., P. 51).
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particular
group of sounds capable of a particular grammatical employment.»1
This
definition does not permit us to distinguish words from phrases
because not only child,
but
a
pretty child as
well are combinations of a particular group of sounds with a
particular meaning capable of a particular grammatical employment.
We
can, nevertheless, accept this formula with some modifications,
adding that a word is the smallest significant unit of a given
language capable of functioning alone and characterised by positional
mobility
within
a sentence, morphological
uninterruptability
and semantic
integrity.2
All these criteria are necessary because they permit us to create a
basis for the oppositions between the word and the phrase, the word
and the phoneme, and the word and the morpheme: their common feature
is that they are all units of the language, their difference lies in
the fact that the phoneme is not significant, and a morpheme cannot
be used as a complete utterance.
Another
reason for this supplement is the widespread scepticism concerning
the subject. It has even become a debatable point whether a word is a
linguistic unit and not an arbitrary segment of speech. This opinion
is put forth by S. Potter, who writes that “unlike a phoneme or a
syllable, a word is not a linguistic unit at all.»3
He calls it a conventional and arbitrary segment of utterance, and
finally adopts the already mentioned
definition of L. Bloomfield. This position is, however, as
we have already mentioned, untenable, and in fact S. Potter himself
makes ample use of the word as a unit in his linguistic analysis.
The
weak point of all the above definitions is that they do not establish
the relationship between language and thought, which is formulated if
we treat the word as a dialectical unity of form and content, in
which the form is the spoken or written expression which calls up a
specific meaning, whereas the content is the meaning rendering the
emotion or the concept in the mind of the speaker which he intends to
convey to his listener.
Summing
up our review of different definitions, we come to the conclusion
that they are bound to be strongly dependent upon the line of
approach, the aim the scholar has in view. For a comprehensive word
theory, therefore, a description seems more appropriate than a
definition.
The
problem of creating a word theory based upon the materialistic
understanding of the relationship between word and thought on the one
hand, and language and society, on the other, has been one of the
most discussed for many years. The efforts of many eminent scholars
such as V.V. Vinogradov, A. I. Smirnitsky, O.S. Akhmanova, M.D.
Stepanova, A.A. Ufimtseva —
to
name but a few, resulted in throwing light
1
Meillet
A. Linguistique
historique et linguistique generate. Paris,
1926.
Vol.
I. P. 30.
2 It
might be objected that such words as articles, conjunctions and a few
other words
never occur as sentences, but they are not numerous and could be
collected into a
list of exceptions.
3 See:
Potter
S. Modern
Linguistics. London, 1957.
P.
78.
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on this problem and achieved a
clear presentation of the word as a basic unit of the language. The
main points may now be summarised.
The
word
is the
fundamental
unit
of language.
It is a dialectical
unity
of form
and
content.
Its content or meaning is not identical to notion, but it may reflect
human notions, and in this sense may be considered as the form of
their existence. Concepts fixed in the meaning of words are formed as
generalised and approximately correct reflections of reality,
therefore in signifying them words reflect reality in their content.
The
acoustic aspect of the word serves to name objects of reality, not to
reflect them. In this sense the word may be regarded as a sign. This
sign, however, is not arbitrary but motivated by the whole process of
its development. That is to say, when a word first comes into
existence it is built out of the elements already available in the
language and according to the existing patterns.
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I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a translation of the New Testament.
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PRONUNCIATION OF LINGUISTIC
GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LINGUISTIC
Linguistic is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.
WHAT DOES LINGUISTIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of language. There are broadly three aspects to the study, which include language form, language meaning, and language in context. The earliest known activities in the description of language have been attributed to Pāṇini around 500 BCE, with his analysis of Sanskrit in Ashtadhyayi. Language can be understood as an interplay of sound and meaning. The discipline that studies linguistic sound is termed as phonetics, which is concerned with the actual properties of speech sounds and non-speech sounds, and how they are produced and perceived. The study of language meaning, on the other hand, is concerned with how languages employ logic and real-world references to convey, process, and assign meaning, as well as to manage and resolve ambiguity. This in turn includes the study of semantics and pragmatics. Grammar is the system of rules which governs the communication between members of a particular speech community. It is influenced by both sound and meaning, and includes morphology, syntax, and phonology.
Definition of linguistic in the English dictionary
The definition of linguistic in the dictionary is of or relating to language. Other definition of linguistic is of or relating to linguistics.
WORDS THAT RHYME WITH LINGUISTIC
Synonyms and antonyms of linguistic in the English dictionary of synonyms
Translation of «linguistic» into 25 languages
TRANSLATION OF LINGUISTIC
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语言上的
1,325 millions of speakers
Translator English — Spanish
lingüístico
570 millions of speakers
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भाषाई
380 millions of speakers
Translator English — Arabic
لُغْوِيٌّ
280 millions of speakers
Translator English — Portuguese
linguístico
270 millions of speakers
Translator English — Bengali
ভাষাবিদ্যাগত
260 millions of speakers
Translator English — French
linguistique
220 millions of speakers
Translator English — Malay
Linguistik
190 millions of speakers
Translator English — German
sprachlich
180 millions of speakers
Translator English — Japanese
言語の
130 millions of speakers
Translator English — Korean
언어학적인
85 millions of speakers
Translator English — Javanese
Linguistik
85 millions of speakers
Translator English — Vietnamese
thuộc ngôn ngữ
80 millions of speakers
Translator English — Tamil
மொழியியல்
75 millions of speakers
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भाषिक
75 millions of speakers
Translator English — Turkish
dilbilimsel
70 millions of speakers
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linguistico
65 millions of speakers
Translator English — Polish
językowy
50 millions of speakers
Translator English — Ukrainian
лінгвістичний
40 millions of speakers
Translator English — Romanian
lingvistic
30 millions of speakers
Translator English — Greek
γλωσσολογικός
15 millions of speakers
Translator English — Afrikaans
taalkundige
14 millions of speakers
Translator English — Swedish
lingvistisk
10 millions of speakers
Translator English — Norwegian
språklig
5 millions of speakers
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I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does impose a certain discipline, intellectual and linguistic.
If we ask a vague question, such as, ‘What is poetry?’ we expect a vague answer, such as, ‘Poetry is the music of words,’ or ‘Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.’
English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.
There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The words in-between are the clever ones.
Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant that God is male?
The story of English spelling is the story of thousands of people — some well-known, most totally unknown — who left a permanent linguistic fingerprint on our orthography.
Although many texters enjoy breaking linguistic rules, they also know they need to be understood.
Music is such a great communicator. It breaks down linguistic barriers, cultural barriers, it basically reaches out. That’s when rock n’ roll succeeds, and that’s what virtuosity is all about.
I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a translation of the New Testament.
Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say that music is a very profound language.
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1
Linguistic Anthropology: A Reader
This is a collection that stands to serve both scholars and students.
Topics include the linguist’s attitude, the work session and the roles of native speakers.
Paul Newman, Martha Ratliff, 2001
3
Linguistic Semantics: An Introduction
This successor to Language, Meaning and Context provides an invaluable introduction to linguistic semantics.
4
Using Corpora to Explore Linguistic Variation
This volume is a collection of papers that illustrate the ways in which linguistic variation can be explored through corpus-based investigation.
Randi Reppen, Susan M. Fitzmaurice, Douglas Biber, 2002
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Neuro-linguistic Programming For Dummies
So whether you want to build your self-confidence, communicate effectively, or make life-changing decisions, this book gives you the tools you need to succeed. • Unlock the essentials — discover the strength of NLP techniques and find out …
Romilla Ready, Kate Burton, 2010
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Language Universals and Linguistic Typology: Syntax and …
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7
Linguistics: An Introduction to Linguistic Theory
The book brings the latest developments in theoretical linguistics to bear in its discussion of the traditional issues.
8
Linguistic Human Rights: Overcoming Linguistic Discrimination
This book describes what linguistic human rights are, who has and who does not have them and why, and suggests which linguistic rights should be regarded as basic human rights.
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Robert Phillipson, Mart Rannut, 1995
9
African American English: A Linguistic Introduction
This authoritative introduction to African American English (AAE) is the first textbook to look at the grammar as a whole.
10
The Linguistic Turn: Essays in Philosophical Method
The Linguistic Turn provides a rich and representative introduction to the entire historical and doctrinal range of the linguistic philosophy movement.
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Notice the conjunction of the the words «pen» and «is» to appreciate this linguistic game. Brad Pitt’s pen is in my mouth. Brad Pitt’s pen is … «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
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“It’s a new discovery,” says study senior author Joo-Hyun Song, assistant professor of cognitive, linguistic and psychological sciences and a … «Futurity: Research News, Jul 15»
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A new Duke Nukem game has a place in 2015, as long as it admits …
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Noisy test predicts future reading trouble — Futurity
“If a child can’t make meaning of these sounds through the background noise, he won’t develop the linguistic resources needed when reading … «Futurity: Research News, Jul 15»
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Pluto’s Linguistic History
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Use the adjective linguistic to describe anything related to language, like the linguistic difficulties you might have if you visit a place where you do not speak the same language as everyone else.
The word linguistic combines the noun linguist, meaning «a master of language, one who uses his tongue freely,» with the adjective suffix -ic. It describes something that’s related to language, such as a linguistic theory about why some people drop the g sound in saying words ending in -ing. Or, if you want to brag about how good your vocabulary is, then rave about your linguistic skills.
Definitions of linguistic
-
adjective
consisting of or related to language
“linguistic behavior”
“a
linguistic atlas”-
synonyms:
lingual
-
adjective
of or relating to the scientific study of language
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lin·guis·tic
(lĭng-gwĭs′tĭk)
adj.
Of or relating to language or linguistics.
lin·guis′ti·cal·ly adv.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
linguistic
(lɪŋˈɡwɪstɪk) or
linguistical
adj
1. (Linguistics) of or relating to language
2. (Linguistics) of or relating to linguistics
linˈguistically adv
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
lin•guis•tic
(lɪŋˈgwɪs tɪk)
adj.
1. of or pertaining to language.
2. of or pertaining to linguistics.
[1830–40]
lin•guis′ti•cal•ly, adv.
Random House Kernerman Webster’s College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
| Adj. | 1. | linguistic — consisting of or related to language; «linguistic behavior»; «a linguistic atlas»; «lingual diversity»
nonlinguistic — not consisting of or related to language; «depended on his nonlinguistic skills» |
| 2. | linguistic — of or relating to the scientific study of language; «linguistic theory» |
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Translations
jazykovědnýjazykový
lingvistisk
kieli-
lingvistički
nyelvészetinyelvi
málvísindalegur, málvísinda-
言語の
언어학적인
lingvistisk
เกี่ยวกับภาษาศาสตร์
thuộc ngôn ngữ
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linguistic
[lɪŋˈgwɪstɪk] adj → linguistico/a
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
linguist
(ˈliŋgwist) noun
a person who studies language and/or is good at languages.
linˈguistic adjective
of languages.
linˈguistics noun singular
the science of languages.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
linguistic
→ لُغْوِيٌّ jazykový lingvistisk sprachlich γλωσσολογικός lingüístico kieli- linguistique lingvistički linguistico 言語の 언어학적인 taalkundig språklig językowy linguístico лингвистический lingvistisk เกี่ยวกับภาษาศาสตร์ dilbilim thuộc ngôn ngữ 语言上的
Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from German linguistisch, equivalent to linguist + -ic.[1] Compare linguistics. Ultimately from Latin lingua (“tongue”). Attested in English since 1825.[2]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /lɪŋˈɡwɪstɪk/
- Rhymes: -ɪstɪk
- Hyphenation: lin‧guis‧tic
Adjective[edit]
linguistic (not comparable)
- Of or relating to language.
- Antonym: unlinguistic
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1848, George Long, “Vater, Johan Severin”, in The Penny Cyclopædia[1], volume 26, page 152:
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Along with the Hebrew language, the grammatical knowledge of which was greatly advanced by him, he now devoted himself to the study of a variety of languages […] In the year 1800 he was invited to go to Halle as an ordinary professor of theology and Oriental literature. Without giving up his linguistic studies, he now devoted considerable time to the critical examination of the early books of the Old Testament,
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2013 June 14, Sam Leith, “Where the profound meets the profane”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 37:
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Swearing doesn’t just mean what we now understand by «dirty words». It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths.
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- Of or relating to linguistics.
- Antonym: unlinguistic
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1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 50:
- We have argued that the ability to make judgments about well-formedness and structure holds at all four major linguistic levels — Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, and Semantics.
- (computing) Relating to a computer language.
- Antonym: unlinguistic
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1993, Dimitris N. Chorafas, Manufacturing Databases and Computer Integrated Systems, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 114:
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The message is that we need language features that deal with schematic and linguistic discrepancies.
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Synonyms[edit]
- linguistical (less common)
Derived terms[edit]
- anthropolinguistic
- biolinguistic
- counterlinguistic
- crosslinguistic
- cunnilinguistic
- cyberlinguistic
- demolinguistic
- ecolinguistic
- epilinguistic
- ethnolinguistic
- Eurolinguistic
- extralinguistic
- geolinguistic
- interlinguistic
- intralinguistic
- linguistic atlas
- linguistic imbalance
- linguistic terrain
- linguistic turn
- linguistical
- linguisticality
- linguistically
- linguistician
- linguistics
- logicolinguistic
- macrolinguistic
- metalinguistic
- microlinguistic
- monolinguistic
- multilinguistic
- neuro-linguistic programming
- neurolinguistic
- nonlinguistic
- paedolinguistic
- panlinguistic
- paralinguistic
- patholinguistic
- prelinguistic
- protolinguistic
- pseudolinguistic
- psycholinguistic
- quasilinguistic
- sociolinguistic
- sublinguistic
- supralinguistic
- theolinguistic
- translinguistic
- unlinguistic
- xenolinguistic
[edit]
- lingua
- lingual
- linguality
- lingually
- linguicism
- linguicist
- linguicistic
- linguicistical
- linguicistically
- linguiform
Translations[edit]
of or relating to language
- Albanian: gjuhësor (sq), linguistik
- Arabic: لُغَوِيّ (luḡawiyy), لِسَانِيّ (lisāniyy)
- Armenian: լեզվական (hy) (lezvakan)
- Azerbaijani: dilçilik
- Belarusian: мо́ўны (móŭny), лінгвісты́чны (linhvistýčny)
- Bengali: ভাষাবৈজ্ঞানিকk (bhaśabōiggênikk), ভাষাগত (bhaśagot)
- Bulgarian: езико́в (ezikóv), лингвисти́чен (lingvistíčen)
- Burmese: ဘာသာစကား (my) (bhasaca.ka:)
- Catalan: lingüístic (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 語言的／语言的 (zh) (yǔyán de)
- Czech: jazykový (cs), lingvistický (cs)
- Danish: sproglig
- Esperanto: lingva
- Estonian: keeleline, keele- (et)
- Finnish: kielellinen (fi), kieli- (fi)
- French: linguistique (fr), lingual (fr)
- Galician: lingüístico (gl)
- Georgian: ენობრივი (enobrivi), ლინგვისტური (lingvisṭuri)
- German: sprachlich (de), linguistisch (de)
- Greek: γλωσσικός (el) (glossikós)
- Hebrew: לְשׁוֹנִי (l’shoní)
- Hindi: भाषाई (bhāṣāī)
- Hungarian: nyelvi (hu)
- Indonesian: linguistik (id), bahasa (id)
- Irish: teangach, teangúil
- Italian: linguistico (it)
- Japanese: 言語の (ja) (げんごの, gengo no)
- Kazakh: тіл (kk) (tıl), тілдік (tıldık), лингвистикалық (liñvistikalyq)
- Khmer: ភាសា (km) (phiəsaa)
- Korean: 언어의 (ko) (eoneoui)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: zimanî (ku)
- Kyrgyz: тил (ky) (til), тилдик (tildik), лингвистикалык (lingvistikalık)
- Lao: ພາສາ (lo) (phā sā)
- Latvian: lingvistisks, valodniecisks
- Lithuanian: kalbinis
- Luxembourgish: sproochlech
- Macedonian: јазичен (jazičen), лингвистички (lingvistički)
- Malay: bahasa (ms), linguistik (ms)
- Maltese: lingwistiku
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: хэл шинжлэлийн (xel šinžleliin)
- Norman: lîndgistique
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: språklig (no)
- Nynorsk: språkleg
- Occitan: lingüistic (oc)
- Pashto: ژبنی (žǝbanáy), لساني (lesāní)
- Persian: زبانی (fa) (zabâni), لسانی (fa) (lesâni)
- Polish: językowy (pl), lingwistyczny (pl)
- Portuguese: linguístico (pt)
- Romanian: lingvistic (ro)
- Russian: языково́й (ru) (jazykovój), лингвисти́ческий (ru) (lingvistíčeskij), язы́чный (ru) (jazýčnyj), лингва́льный (ru) (lingválʹnyj)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: јѐзичкӣ, јѐзичнӣ, лингвѝстичкӣ
- Roman: jèzičkī (sh), jèzičnī (sh), lingvìstičkī (sh)
- Skolt Sami: ǩiõllʼlaž
- Slovak: lingvistický
- Slovene: jezikóven, jezíčen
- Spanish: lingüístico (es), lingual (es)
- Swedish: språklig (sv)
- Tajik: забонӣ (zabonī), лисонӣ (lisonī)
- Thai: ภาษา (th) (paa-sǎa)
- Turkish: dil bilimi (tr)
- Turkmen: dil (tk), lingwistik
- Ukrainian: мо́вний (uk) (móvnyj), лінгвісти́чний (linhvistýčnyj)
- Urdu: لسانی (lisānī)
- Uyghur: تىل (ug) (til)
- Uzbek: til (uz), lingvistik (uz)
- Vietnamese: ngôn ngữ (vi)
- Volapük: pükik (vo)
- Yiddish: שפּראַכלעך (shprakhlekh)
of or relating to linguistics
of or relating to computer languages
References[edit]
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “linguistic”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- ^ “linguistic”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Anagrams[edit]
- linguicist
Ladin[edit]
Adjective[edit]
linguistic m pl
- plural of linguistich
Romanian[edit]
Adjective[edit]
linguistic m or n (feminine singular linguistică, masculine plural linguistici, feminine and neuter plural linguistice)
- Alternative form of lingvistic
Declension[edit]
Princeton’s WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes
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linguistic, lingualadjective
consisting of or related to language
«linguistic behavior»; «a linguistic atlas»; «lingual diversity»
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linguisticadjective
of or relating to the scientific study of language
«linguistic theory»
WiktionaryRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote
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linguisticadjective
Of or relating to language.
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linguisticadjective
Of or relating to linguistics.
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linguisticadjective
Relating to a computer language.
WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes
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linguistic
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguistics is concerned with both the cognitive and social aspects of language. It is considered a scientific field as well as an academic discipline; it has been classified as a social science, natural science, cognitive science, or part of the humanities.
Traditional areas of linguistic analysis correspond to phenomena found in human linguistic systems, such as syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences); semantics (meaning); morphology (structure of words); phonetics (speech sounds and equivalent gestures in sign languages); phonology (the abstract sound system of a particular language); and pragmatics (how social context contributes to meaning). Subdisciplines such as biolinguistics (the study of the biological variables and evolution of language) and psycholinguistics (the study of psychological factors in human language) bridge many of these divisions.Linguistics encompasses many branches and subfields that span both theoretical and practical applications. Theoretical linguistics (including traditional descriptive linguistics) is concerned with understanding the fundamental nature of language and developing a general theoretical framework for describing it. Applied linguistics seeks to utilise the scientific findings of the study of language for practical purposes, such as developing methods of improving language education and literacy.Linguistic phenomena may be studied through a variety of perspectives: synchronically (describing a language at a specific point of time) or diachronically (through historical development); in monolinguals or multilinguals; children or adults; as they are learned or already acquired; as abstract objects or cognitive structures; through texts or oral elicitation; and through mechanical data collection versus fieldwork.Linguistics is related to philosophy of language, stylistics and rhetorics, semiotics, lexicography, and translation; philology, from which linguistics emerged, is variably described as a related field, a subdiscipline, or to have been superseded altogether.
Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes
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Linguisticadjective
alt. of Linguistical
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linguistic
Relating to linguistics.
The linguistic facet of the document was easy to see for everyone.
Submitted by MaryC on April 7, 2020
British National Corpus
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word ‘Linguistic’ in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3742
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Adjectives Frequency
Rank popularity for the word ‘Linguistic’ in Adjectives Frequency: #508
How to pronounce Linguistic?
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Linguistic in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
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Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Linguistic in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of Linguistic in a Sentence
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Armando Orduña:
We are concerned that losing educator diversity would be taking a large step backward in student achievement, we know that when students of color have educators who look like them, educators who share their same cultural backgrounds, if not their linguistic backgrounds, we know that those students are more likely … to have better discipline records, higher attendance records.
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Paul de Man:
Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.
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Gasoda Surui:
We feel the threat from all sides: cultural, environmental, territorial and linguistic.
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George Steiner:
The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.
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Melanie Smith:
[ QAnon in Japan ] was the first international community we saw being coherent and cohesive enough to show up on a network round, which means it has its own influencers, it has its own kind of linguistic markers, its own signals in terms of content that’s being produced and consumed, we can tell that even with the enforcement action that’s now happening on Twitter, that community remains relatively strong.
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Translations for Linguistic
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- ভাষাবৈজ্ঞানিকBengali
- lingüísticCatalan, Valencian
- linguistisch, sprachwissenschaftlich, sprachlichGerman
- γλωσσικός, γλωσσολογικόςGreek
- lingvaEsperanto
- lingüísticoSpanish
- زبانیPersian
- linguistiqueFrench
- teangeolaíochIrish
- भाषाईHindi
- լեզվական, լեզվաբանականArmenian
- linguisticoItalian
- språkvitenskapelig, språklig, lingvistiskNorwegian
- de lingvistică, computero-lingvistic, lingvisticRomanian
- языковедческий, языковой, лингвистическийRussian
- భాషాTelugu
- лінгвістичнийUkrainian
- لسانیUrdu
- programelapükik, pükik, pükavik, nünömapükikVolapük
- 語言Chinese
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