What is linguistics?
Pure linguistics
1. phonetics and phonology = the study of speech sounds (consonants, vowels, syllables, etc.)
2. syntax = the study of grammar and word order
3. semantics = the study of word and morpheme meaning
4. morphology = the study of how morphemes go together to form words
5. pragmatics = the study of how language is used
linguistics + alpha
- psychology + linguistics = psycholinguistics
- sociology + linguistics = sociolinguistics
- education + linguistics = second language acquisition, TESL and TEFL
- the brain + linguistics = neurolinguistics
- computer + linguistics = corpus linguistics
- history + linguistics = historical linguistics
etc. etc. etc.