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Linguistics basic topics

Table of contents 1 Basic questions 2 Basic concepts (glossary of basic terms) 3 Timeline of discovery of basic concepts 4 People 5 Subfields

Basic questions

What are the basic questions asked in linguistics?

1. What is language?
2. How did it/does it evolve?

(The answers are not necessarily basic or easy to understand.)

Basic concepts (glossary of basic terms)

What basic concepts / terms do I have to know to talk about linguistics?

• Morpheme
• Phoneme
• Grammar
• Syntax
• Semantics

Timeline of discovery of basic concepts

When were the basic concepts first described and by whom?

• Influence of ancient Sanscrit grammarians?

People

People who had a significant influence on the development of the field

• Panini
• Ferdinand de Saussure
• Noam Chomsky
• Sir William Jones

Subfields

• Phonetics
• Phonology
• Morphology
• Grammar
• Pragmatics
• Semantics
• Lexicology
• Psycholinguistics
• Sociolinguistics
• Comparative linguistics[?]

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