plural of missionary-linguist

plural of co-linguist

Alternative spelling of missionary-linguist

A missionary who seeks to study a people's language in order to facilitate religious conversion.

(philosophy) The shift which occurred in philosophical attention, during the 20th century and within a number of philosophical schools of thought, from traditional themes of metaphysics and epistemology to a focus on the structure and usage of language and the relation of language to human understanding of those traditional themes.

(linguistics) Synonym of historical linguistics

(linguistics) The scientific study of language change.

(linguistics) A branch of historical linguistics that is concerned with comparing languages in order to establish their historical relatedness.

(linguistics, computer science) An interdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical and/or rule-based modeling of natural language from a computational perspective. This modeling is not limited to any particular field of linguistics.

Work purporting to fall under the scholarly field of linguistics but falling short of its standards; linguistic pseudo-scholarship.