LITERATURE QUESTIONS
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Study of Language
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science of medicine
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science of surgery
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science of speech sounds
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Detailed explanation-1: -philology, traditionally, the study of the history of language, including the historical study of literary texts. It is also called comparative philology when the emphasis is on the comparison of the historical states of different languages.
Detailed explanation-2: -Philology means the study of language. Not learning specific languages per se, but grammar and history, and how sounds and meanings change over time.
Detailed explanation-3: -Philology is the study of the history of language, in particular the historical study of literary and canonical texts.
Detailed explanation-4: -Philology In Action A noteworthy example of this is the pamphlet Declamatio de falso credita et ementita Constantini Donatione (Discourse on the wrongly believed and falsified Grant of Constantine), written by the Italian humanist Lorenzo Valla (1407-57).
Detailed explanation-5: -philologist (plural philologists) A person who engages in philology (historical linguistics), especially as a profession; a collector of words and their etymologies. quotations ▼hyponym ▼ A person devoted to general learning and literature.