'''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.