glottology

glottology — 名詞

1. the academic study of human language — how words sound, how sentences are built,

1.名詞C2
釋義

語言學

語言學的舊稱，研究人類語言的學科

the academic study of human language — how words sound, how sentences are built, how meaning is expressed, and how languages change over time; an older, mostly historical name for what is now usually called linguistics.

例句

Professor Mathieu taught a short course on glottology at the summer school.

Mathieu 教授在暑期學校開了一門語言學（glottology）的短期課程。

domain noun used as the subject of a course

Hannah picked up an old book on glottology at a second-hand shop in Paris.

Hannah 在巴黎一家二手書店買到一本介紹語言學（glottology）的舊書。

collocation: a book on glottology

常見搭配
  • a book on glottology
  • study glottology
  • glottology department
同義詞
  • linguistics

    the standard modern term; use this in any present-day context

  • philology

    overlaps for historical/textual study of language, but covers literature and culture too

  • glossology

    near-synonym; also rare and old-fashioned

用法筆記

Highly formal and dated; almost always replaced by 'linguistics' in modern academic writing. Reserve for historical contexts (nineteenth-century scholarship) or when quoting older texts.

常見錯誤

I study glottology at school.
I study linguistics at school.
outside historical contexts, native speakers use 'linguistics'; 'glottology' sounds strange in everyday talk.
She is a glottology.
She is a linguist.' / 'She works in glottology.
'glottology' names the field, not the person.

同根字

  • glottologist
    名詞C2
  • glottological
    形容詞C2
  • linguistics
    名詞B2

常見搭配

名詞搭配

  • glottology department
  • glottology course
  • history of glottology

常用片語

  • a book on glottology
  • the field of glottology

介系詞搭配

  • on glottology
  • in glottology