Definition of Structural linguistics

1. Noun. Linguistics defined as the analysis of formal structures in a text or discourse.

Exact synonyms: Structuralism
Generic synonyms: Linguistics

Lexicographical Neighbors of Structural Linguistics

structural
structural-unemployment
structural anthropology
structural biology
structural deficit
structural failure
structural formula
structural formulae
structural formulas
structural gene
structural genomics
structural iron
structural isomer
structural isomerism
structural isomers
structural linguistics (current term)
structural member
structural pattern
structural patterns
structural polysaccharide
structural research
structural sociology
structural steel
structural unemployment
structuralise
structuralised
structuralises
structuralising
structuralism
structuralisms

Literary usage of Structural linguistics

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Calcutta Review by University of Calcutta (1844)
"But Suniti Kumar was not a lonely crier against the dominance of Structural Linguistics. Only ten years before his death Dr. Olga 5 Akhmanova of Moscow ..."

2. An Adventure of Great Dimension: The Launching of the Chicago Assyrian by Erica Reiner (2002)
"Gelb himself was a champion of the then current structural linguistics approach and had close friendships and many discussions with his ..."

3. Useful Knowledge: The American Philosophical Society Millennium Program by Alexander G. Bearn, American Philosophical Society (1999)
"... works on sign theory and on structural linguistics.2 Their approaches began to be applied systematically to material culture, including the visual arts, ..."

4. Useful Knowledge: The American Philosophical Society Millennium Program by Alexander G. Bearn, American Philosophical Society (1999)
"... works on sign theory and on structural linguistics.2 Their approaches began to be applied systematically to material culture, including the visual arts, ..."

5. Marking Matric: Colloquium Proceedingsby Vijay Reddy by Vijay Reddy (2006)
"structural linguistics views language as an objective and fixed system amenable to analysis and assumes a system of structurally related elements consisting ..."

6. Russian Orthodox Church Of Alaska And The Aleutian Islands And Its Relation by Vyacheslav Ivanov (1998)
"... and those of such classics of structural linguistics as Emile Benveniste (in his studies of the typology of the verbal endings of different persons) ..."

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