lingvistika
Lingvistika, or linguistics, is the scientific study of language and its structure, use, acquisition, and variation. It aims to describe how languages are formed, how they differ, and how they change over time, as well as how language is stored and processed in the mind and used in social contexts. It intersects with anthropology, psychology, computer science, philosophy, and cognitive science.
Core subfields include phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, as well as discourse analysis and
Methodologically, linguists describe languages, test hypotheses, and build theoretical models. They use fieldwork to document under-described
Historically, linguistics emerged from grammatical tradition and philology and became a modern science in the 19th
Applications include language teaching and assessment, natural language processing and speech technology, clinical linguistics and speech-language