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University of Warwick

Linguistics

Language: English Studies in English

Subject area: humanities

University website: www.warwick.ac.uk

Linguistics

Linguistics is the scientific study of language, and involves an analysis of language form, language meaning, and language in context. The earliest activities in the documentation and description of language have been attributed to the 6th century BC Indian grammarian Pāṇini, who wrote a formal description of the Sanskrit language in his Aṣṭādhyāyī.

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I love the language, that soft bastard Latin,
Which melts like kisses from a female mouth.

Lord Byron, Beppo (1818), Stanza 44.

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For though to smatter ends of Greek
Or Latin be the rhetoric
Of pedants counted, and vain-glorious,
To smatter French is meritorious.

Samuel Butler, Remains in Verse and Prose, Satire, Upon Our Ridiculous Imitation of the French, line 127. A Greek proverb condemns the man of two tongues.

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Besides 'tis known he could speak Greek
As naturally as pigs squeak;
That Latin was no more difficile
Than to a blackbird 'tis to whistle.

Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part I (1663-64), Canto I, line 51.

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