## Tags - Part of: - Related: - Includes: - Additional: ## Main resources - <iframe src="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theoretical_linguistics" allow="fullscreen" allowfullscreen="" style="height:100%;width:100%; aspect-ratio: 16 / 5; "></iframe> ## Written by AI (may include factually incorrect information)may include incorrect information) - Theoretical linguistics is a branch of linguistics that is concerned with developing models of linguistic knowledge to describe and explain linguistic phenomena. It encompasses a range of sub-disciplines that focus on different aspects of language structure and function. Here's a comprehensive list of the various branches and subfields within theoretical linguistics: ### 1. Phonetics - Articulatory Phonetics (Study of Speech Production) - Acoustic Phonetics (Study of Speech Sounds) - Auditory Phonetics (Study of Speech Perception) ### 2. Phonology - Segmental Phonology (Study of Individual Speech Sounds) - Suprasegmental Phonology (Study of Features like Stress, Tone, Intonation) - Phonotactics (Study of Sound Patterns and Constraints) - Prosody (Study of Rhythm, Stress, and Intonation) ### 3. Morphology - Inflectional Morphology (Study of Word Forms) - Derivational Morphology (Study of Word Formation) - Morphological Typology (Study of Morphological Processes Across Languages) - Morphophonology (Interface Between Morphology and Phonology) ### 4. Syntax - Generative Grammar (Study of the Rules that Govern Sentence Structure) - Syntactic Theory (Study of Syntactic Structures) - Transformational Grammar (Study of Transformations in Sentence Structure) - Dependency Grammar (Study of the Dependency Between Linguistic Units) ### 5. Semantics - Lexical Semantics (Study of Word Meanings) - Compositional Semantics (Study of Sentence Meaning) - Formal Semantics (Study of Meaning Through Mathematical Systems) - Cognitive Semantics (Study of Meaning, Understanding, and Conceptualization) ### 6. Pragmatics - Speech Act Theory (Study of How Utterances Function) - Conversational Implicature (Study of Implied Meanings) - Relevance Theory (Study of Communication and Cognition) - Discourse Analysis (Study of Language in Use) ### 7. Psycholinguistics (Overlap with Cognitive Science) - Language Acquisition (Study of How Language is Acquired) - Language Processing (Study of How Language is Understood, Processed, and Produced) - Neurolinguistics (Study of the Neural Mechanisms of Language) ### 8. Sociolinguistics (Overlap with Social Sciences) - Language Variation (Study of Differences in Language Use) - Language Change (Study of How Language Evolves Over Time) - Language Contact (Study of Languages in Contact with Each Other) ### 9. Historical Linguistics - Diachronic Linguistics (Study of Languages Over Time) - Etymology (Study of Word Histories) - Language Evolution (Study of the Origins and Development of Languages) ### 10. Comparative Linguistics - Language Typology (Study of the Classification of Languages) - Comparative Syntax (Comparative Analysis of Sentence Structures) - Comparative Phonology (Comparative Analysis of Phonological Systems) ### 11. Formal Linguistics - Model-Theoretic Linguistics (Study of Language via Logical Models) - Computational Linguistics (Study of Language via Computational Models) - Theoretical Syntax (Study of the Fundamental Principles of Sentence Structure) - Theoretical Phonology (Study of the Fundamental Principles of Sound Systems) ### 12. Applied Theoretical Linguistics - Language Documentation (Study of Techniques for Documenting Languages) - Language Revitalization (Study of Techniques for Reviving Endangered Languages) ### 13. Cognitive Linguistics - Conceptual Metaphor (Study of Metaphorical Thought and Language) - Mental Spaces and Conceptual Blending (Study of Conceptual Integration) ### 14. Structural Linguistics - Phonemics (Study of Phonemes) - Morphemics (Study of Morphemes) - Syntax and Semantics (Structural Analysis) Theoretical linguistics is foundational for understanding how languages are structured, how they function, and how they are processed and learned. It intersects with a variety of disciplines, including psychology, anthropology, philosophy, and computer science.