linguistici

Linguistici is the Italian adjective meaning “linguistic” and is used to describe things related to language or to the science of linguistics. It appears in phrases such as aspetti linguistici, studi linguistici, or terminologia linguistica. The term inflects for gender and number: singolare maschile linguistico, singolare femminile linguistica, plurale maschile linguistici, plurale femminile linguistiche.

Etymology and form: linguistici derives from the root lingua, meaning language, combined with the suffix -istico, which marks a characteristic or relation. In Italian, the feminine forms are linguistica (sing.) and linguistiche (pl.).

In linguistic usage, linguistici is a common qualifier across subfields. It appears in discussions of theoretical linguistics (linguistica teorica), historical and comparative linguistics (linguistica storica, linguistica comparata), sociolinguistics (sociolinguistica), psycholinguistics (piscolinguistica), neurolinguistics (neolinguistica), and pragmatics, semantics, and morphology. It also figures in applied contexts such as language teaching, translation studies, and language technology, where one speaks of aspetti linguistici or problemi linguistici.

Relationship to related terms: linguistica denotes the discipline as a whole, while linguistic or linguistic studies in English correspond to linguistica and its subfields in Italian. The adjective linguistico/linguistici thus serves to label elements associated with language, rather than a separate independent field.

See also: linguistica; linguistica computazionale; linguistica teorica.