linguistics

• However, an English etymologist is at best a specialist in Indo-European linguistics, and more often only in Germanic.
• Many years ago Bill Labov wrote an article called How I got into linguistics, and what I got out of it.
• Even now I feel very grateful for my background in linguistics, and most especially for the kind of background in linguistics that the Penn department seems pretty uniquely able to provide.
• But the best part of this experience is the reaffirmation of the choice I made a few years ago to get out of academic linguistics -- and the clarity with which I can see the ways in which my approaches to the problem space have changed.
• As so often in linguistics, the answer is 'it all depends on how you analyse things'.English plainly doesn't have postpositions in the strict sense, i.e. an item which governs a noun phrase and obligatorily occurs after the noun phrase.

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

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