PHILOLOGY

Philology

Philology is the study of language in written historical sources; it is a combination of literary criticism, history, and linguistics. It is more commonly defined as the study of literary texts and written records, the establishment of their authenticity and their original form, and the determination of their meaning.

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philology

Noun

  1. The humanistic study of historical linguistics.


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