WHAT IS LINGUISTICS?

THE MAIN OF LINGUISTICS

IS TO INCREASE OUR KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORLD.

STUDY THE NATURE OF LANGUAGE AND ESTABLISH A THEORY OF LANGUAGE

DESCRIBE ALL LANGUAGE BY APPLYING THE THEORY ESTABLISHED.

IS THE SCIENCE STUDY OF LANGUAGE. APPLY THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD TO CONDUCT FORMAL STUDIES OF SPEECH SOUNDS, GRAMMATICAL STRUCTURES, AND MEANING, BUT THE PRIMARY GOAL IS TO UNDERSTAND THE NATURE OF LANGUAGE IN GENERAL.

BRANCHES

HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS

SOCIOLINGUISTICS

DIALECTOLOGY

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS

LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

PSYCHOLINGUISTICS

EXPERIMENTAL LINGUISTICS

NEUROLINGUISTICS

LEXICOGRAFY

FORENSIC LINGUISTICS

CORPUS LINGUISTICS

THE IMPORTANCE OF LINGUISTICS

HELPS US UNDERSTAND THE STRUCTURE OF LANGUAGE

HELP US UNDERSTAND THAT LANGUAGES AROUND THE WORLD HAVE COMMONALITIES IN STRUCTURE.

ALLOWS US TO UNDERSTAND COMMOLITIES AND WHERE THEY ORIGINATED, AS WELL AS DETERMINE STRUCTURAL DIFFERENCES AND THEIR LIMITS.

ELEMENTS

PHONETICS

SOUND SPEECH

PHONOLOGY

SOUND SYSTEMS

MORPHOLOGY

WORDS

SYNTAX

SENTENCE STRUCTURE

VERBS

NOUNS

ADVERBS

ADJETIVES

PREPOSITIONS

DETERMINERS

CONJUNCTIONS

AUXILIARY VERBS

PRAGMATIC

CONTEXT TO MEANING

SEMANTIC

MEANING