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noun - the humanistic study of language and literature
Literary study or classical scholarship.
PHILOLOGY - Philology is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is a combination of literary criticism, history, and linguistics. Philo...
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| The study of languages and their development |
| Linguistics |
| Study of language |
| Study of a portentous woodchuck? |
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| the branch of knowledge that deals with the structure, historical development, and relationships of a language or languages. |
| the humanistic study of language and literature |
| the study of language, especially its history and development |
| Literary study or classical scholarship. |
| See historical linguistics. |
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Philology is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is a combination of literary criticism, history, and linguistics. Philology is more commonly defined as the study of literary texts as well as oral and written records, the establishment of their authenticity and their original form, and the determination of their meaning. A person who pursues this kind of study is known as a philologist. * In older usage, especially British, philology is more general, covering comparative and historical linguistics.Classical philology studies classical languages. Classical philology principally originated from the Library of Pergamum and the Library of Alexandria around the fourth century BCE, continued by Greeks and Romans throughout the Roman/Byzantine Empire. It was preserved and promoted during the Islamic Golden Age, and eventually resumed by European scholars of the Renaissance, where it was soon joined by philologies of other non-Asian (European) (Germanic, Celtic), Eur |