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00:02:07 1 Antiquity
00:02:44 1.1 Babylonia
00:04:19 1.2 India
00:11:38 1.3 Greece
00:21:24 1.4 Rome
00:22:06 1.5 China
00:27:08 2 Middle Ages
00:27:17 2.1 Arabic grammar
00:28:26 2.2 European vernaculars
00:29:38 3 Modern linguistics
00:30:04 3.1 "Historical" linguistics
00:33:40 3.2 Structuralism
00:34:18 3.3 Descriptive linguistics
00:35:09 3.4 Generative linguistics
00:35:19 3.5 Other subfields
00:35:39 4 See also



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Linguistics is the scientific study of language. It involves an analysis of language form, language meaning, and language in context.Linguistic study was originally motivated by the correct description of classical liturgical language, notably that of Sanskrit grammar in ancient India, or by the development of logic and rhetoric in ancient Greece, leading to a grammatical tradition in Hellenism.
Beginning around the 4th century BCE, China also developed its own grammatical traditions. Traditions of Arabic grammar and Hebrew grammar developed during the Middle Ages, also in a religious context.
Modern linguistics began to develop in the 18th century with work almost entirely centering around Indo-European studies and leading to a highly elaborate and consistent reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European language. The first half of the 20th century was marked by the structuralist school, based on the work of Ferdinand de Saussure in Europe and Edward Sapir and Leonard Bloomfield in the United States. The 1960s saw the rise of many new fields in linguistics, such as Noam Chomsky's generative grammar, William Labov's sociolinguistics, Michael Halliday's systemic functional linguistics and also modern psycholinguistics.
In the early 20th century, de Saussure distinguished between the notions of langue and parole in his formulation of structural linguistics. According to him, parole is the specific utterance of speech, whereas langue refers to an abstract phenomenon that theoretically defines the principles and system of rules that govern a language. This distinction resembles the one made by Noam Chomsky between competence and performance, where competence is individual's ideal knowledge of a language, while performance is the specific way in which it is used.