plural of missionary-linguist

plural of comparative linguist

(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.

(linguistics) The scientific study of language change.

(linguistics, computer science) An interdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical and/or rule-based modeling of natural language from a computational perspective. This modeling is not limited to any particular field of linguistics.

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

(linguistics) Synonym of historical linguistics

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

linguist whose field is comparative linguistics.

(linguistics) The study of language contact