An Introduction to Linguistics
SHUAIB ASGHAR DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH GOVT. RAZVIA ISLAMIA COLLEGE HAROONABAD, PAKISTAN Linguistics is the scientific study of human language . It can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context. 1. The first subfield of linguistics is the study of language structure, or grammar . This focuses on the system of rules followed by the users of a language. It includes the study of morphology (the formation and composition of words), syntax (the formation and composition of phrases and sentences from these words), and phonology (sound systems). Phonetics is a related branch of linguistics concerned with the actual properties of speech sounds and nonspeech sounds, and how they are produced and perceived. 2. The study of language meaning is concerned with how languages employ logical structures and real-world references to convey, process, and assign meaning, as well as to man...