structural linguistics

structural linguistics

n. (used with a sing. verb)

1. A method of synchronic linguistic analysis employing structuralism, especially in contrasting those formal structures, such as phonemes or sentences, that make up systems, such as phonology or syntax.

2. A school of linguistics developed in the United States from the 1930s to the 1950s that advocated and employed such a method.

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structural linguistics

n

(Linguistics) (functioning as singular) a descriptive approach to a synchronic or diachronic analysis of language on the basis of its structure as reflected by irreducible units of phonological, morphological, and semantic features

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structural linguistics - linguistics defined as the analysis of formal structures in a text or discourse structuralism linguistics - the scientific study of language