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Definition of Philology

Philology
Philology Phi*lol"o*gy, n. [L. philologia love of learning, interpretation, philology, Gr. ?: cf. F. philologie. See Philologer.] 1. Criticism; grammatical learning. [R.] --Johnson. 2. The study of language, especially in a philosophical manner and as a science; the investigation of the laws of human speech, the relation of different tongues to one another, and historical development of languages; linguistic science. Note: Philology comprehends a knowledge of the etymology, or origin and combination of words; grammar, the construction of sentences, or use of words in language; criticism, the interpretation of authors, the affinities of different languages, and whatever relates to the history or present state of languages. It sometimes includes rhetoric, poetry, history, and antiquities. 3. A treatise on the science of language.

Meaning of Philology from wikipedia

- Philology (from Ancient Gr**** φιλολογία (philología) 'love of word') is the study of language in oral and written historical sources. It is the intersection...
- New Philology can refer to: The nineteenth-century intellectual movement in philology known in German as Neuphilologie New Philology (Latin America), a...
- Germanic philology is the philological study of the Germanic languages, particularly from a comparative or historical perspective. The beginnings of research...
- Africa and parts of the Middle East. Philology is the study of language preserved in written sources; classical philology is thus concerned with understanding...
- This article contains special characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Bulgarian (/bʌlˈɡɛəriən/...
- (1/2): 36–59. JSTOR 41927278. Rachewiltz, Igor de. Introduction to Altaic philology: Turkic, Mongolian, Manchu / by Igor de Rachewiltz and Volker Rybatzki;...
- The American Journal of Philology is a quarterly academic journal established in 1880 by the classical scholar Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve and published...
- encyclopedic work, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii ("On the Marriage of Philology and Mercury"), also called De septem disciplinis ("On the seven disciplines")...
- (Blackwell, 2004) ISBN 1-4051-2747-3 Giles, Peter; Sievers, Eduard (1911). "Philology" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 21 (11th ed.). pp. 414–438. Roger L****...
- Richard Morris (8 September 1833 – 12 May 1894), was an English philologist and priest of the Church of England. Morris was born at Bermondsey on 8 September...