(linguistics) Synonym of historical linguistics

(linguistics) A branch of historical linguistics that is concerned with comparing languages in order to establish their historical relatedness.

(linguistics) The study of language contact

plural of linguistic imbalance

(linguistics, informal) Any linguistic enterprise employing introspection rather than empirical methods, such as elicitation.

A spatial conception of the character or use of language or languages.

plural of linguistic terrain

(linguistics) The interdisciplinary field of linguistics that identifies, investigates and offers solutions to language-related real-life problems.

Work purporting to fall under the scholarly field of linguistics but falling short of its standards; linguistic pseudo-scholarship.

(philosophy) The shift which occurred in philosophical attention, during the 20th century and within a number of philosophical schools of thought, from traditional themes of metaphysics and epistemology to a focus on the structure and usage of language and the relation of language to human understanding of those traditional themes.