The Many Branches Of Linguistics

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Branches Of Linguistics: leverageedu.co...
Phonology: www.sheffield....
Phonetics: www.britannica...
Syntax: www.grammarly....
Semantics: www.vocabulary...
Morphology: www.sheffield....
Pragmatics: study.com/lear...
Psycholinguistics: www.sciencedir...
Sociolinguistics: www.sheffield....
Computational Linguistics: www.thebritish...
Comparative Linguistics: www.britannica...
Historical Linguistics: gsas.harvard.e...
Paleolinguistics: glossographia....
Applied Linguistics: www.teachingen...
Stylistics: web-archive.so...

[@NameExplain]

What's your favourite branch of linguistics?

[@0megax788]

historical linguistics. thanks to you i got the name of what I loved so much in linguistics

[@adammonlezun3304]

Comparative and/or Historical Linguistics

[@storyspren]

Sociolinguistics for sure

[@me0101001000]

Computational linguistics! I'm very much a numbers guy, but I also like languages, so it just pulled me in!

[@Bards.98]

Not really a linguistics branch, but linguistics as a branch of anthropology, I love how language can tell, explicitly and implicitly, so much about the biological and social part of humans and their cultures

[@peterthompson8014]

Historical linguistics makes me tingle

[@MakhalanyaneMotaung]

I find it fascinating. Would really like to look into the history of Bantu languages as there’s so many fun links but unfortunately so much of our culture was oral

[@JoKaR80-d5r]

Me too!!

[@jeranuspeedruns]

I love linguistics as a whole, despite being not that great at learning languages (trust me I've tried) I still love the idea of learning how a language functions and where they came from, it's just astonishing the more you look into it.

[@ChristopherSmith-il6fo]

I'll be cheeky and pay some tution for this lesson.

[@NameExplain]

Thanks Chris! I promise this money will go back into your education lol.

[@schnuder]

I usually would not get this pedantic, but it would be here if anywhere was the right place to do so. As a research psychology and neuroscientist who's done research in language, I and many of my colleagues would consider psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics different subfields (with some overlap). Psycholinguistics focuses on the psychological processes and terminology, such as how we learn new languages and how many words, like names, we can keep in our working memory. In contrast, neurolinguistics focuses on language and our brains' biology. Examples include which parts of the brain are involved in different aspects of language and how neuronal processes play a role in language, including how specific neurological disorders and injuries affect language use.

[@flamencoprof]

In the early Sixties, when I was 13 the Appendices of Tolkein's Lord of the Rings trilogy were a revelation to me. I realised that languages and alphabets could be analysed and explained. It sparked a lifelong interest.

[@cuitaro]

Same here!

[@fermintenava5911]

Coming from a linguistics student, that was an overall great overview for different branches, and I can't wait for you take a deeper dive eventually. Maybe you can get a little deeper into semiotics (the study of signs) or into the terms Ferdinand Saussure came up with for these ("langue" for language as a system of rules, "parole" for the concrete use of language in practice, "langage" for the common human way of communication in comparison to animals). I know these topics are a little more academical than your audience is expecting, but they're taught in basic linguistic for a reason ^^'

[@myssie-theanimedevourer5835]

I love linguistics! I became fascinated by it because of the movie My Fair Lady.

[@Swedishfinnpolymath]

I have followed your channel for some while now and really enjoy your work. I love languages and have recently started to restudy them after giving up a couple of years ago. Thanks to you I'm going to look into comparative lingustics since the major romance languages and Romanian are on my list of languages that I want to study.

[@NameExplain]

Thank you so much!

[@floramew]

I would love to see a video on the language of math!

[@ishakrahuya]

Etymology is my favourite.

[@brianedwards7142]

Professor Morbius was the philologist on the Bellerophon expedition to Altair. In his attempts to understand their language he used a thought amplification machine and unwittingly unleashed the power of an ancient planet sized machine against his friends. Linguistics is a dangerous game.

[@AllanLimosin]

My favorite linguistic fields are those that collide with other major sciences like with sociology, medicine or music theory. They are so interesting to dive into.

[@Hyblup]

Glad my memory of these areas remain, my favourite branch would probably have to be morphology, infixes are indeed curious things.

[@brianedwards7142]

The Rainbow Gum (Eucalyptus deglupta) has loud bark if ever there was such a thing.

[@20thcenturytunes]

NGL, I geeked out hard - You might consider a Name Explain U

[@vicentefigueroa4758]

A fascinating topic, thanks! Certainly this video covers the main branches, some other fields I think would be fun to explore (but perhaps too niche to include in a broad taxonomy) are formal language theory, semiotics/semiology, propositional and predicate logic language systems (and math), and other philosophical approaches to information systems. Oh and some little extra things that don't belong here but are fun nonetheless, animal communication and conlangs!

[@latecraft]

Sad to see no one here mention Linguistic Typology. I guess it is similar in some sense to comparative linguistics but still quite distinct and definitely my area of interest!

[@vikrantdogra9282]

A video right up my street as a Masters graduate in German Linguistics! Technically, #anythingspokenisalanguage

[@spenserc.4376]

I was a German Studies and Linguistics double major in undergrad but I never knew it was available as a Master’s degree, out of curiosity did you get it as a part of a doctoral program or separately?

[@vikrantdogra9282]

@@spenserc.4376 I did it at King's College London in 2005. It replaced the old University of London MA degree in the Study of the German Language (run jointly by King's College London and University College London)

[@lawden210]

I ponder about the relationship between linguistics and geography

[@SasquachPL]

I would love a video on the Normandy codename topic proposed by Randy van Halen!

[@satyamkaskar]

Thank you for your video 🙂 I was thinking about creating videos myself on Prompt engineering because of rise of Chat GPT and other Natural Language Processing models. I genuinely learnt that there's proper words for study of language of computers etc. I appreciate your valuable time and efforts in making this video. Have a great day ahead 😊

[@hailchristandmary]

My favorite is historical-linguistics (with sociolinguists after). Looking forward to see more linguistic videos

[@katakana1]

I think the difference between "start" and "beginning", for me at least, is more of a scope difference. "Start" is an instantaneous thing, something that only lasts for a moment. But "beginning" is more long-term, and length varies depending on the total length of the thing that the beginning is a beginning _of._

[@MagikLizard]

Start can also be used as a verb whereas beginning cannot. To start a band. To start a movement.

[@cpt_nordbart]

Numberphile did some vids on linguistics of Math like how different languages count. French and Danish come to mind.

[@aquasomethingyouknowwhatever]

im currently working toward my ba in linguistics!!

[@AC--gc9uf]

I like learning about linguistic jargon

[@headstrikerop4093]

Please make a video about maths language

[@Mary-ss2uh]

Amazing explanation. Thanks a lot

[@glasslicker2829]

Hey just a question, is there a linguistics subcategory that studies how a specific language is written through history and the differences in writing styles (visually)?

[@Kairikey]

Hmm, I understand it more as phonology studying sound as an interconnected system within the language while phonetics is more of studying the sound as it is.

[@peterthompson8014]

Human migration in language evolution totally fascinates me

[@oliverkarehag9883]

Have you ever thought about making a video about how ways of using words has a different/deeper meaning than the everyday use? How you can say salut in french is used as hi but is a way of wishing someone good health. Or in Arabic how Islam is the reason why inshallah is something like a “Muslim maybe”. Also how they might use Barokh HaShem in Hebrew for is well. You could throw in namaste or OMG in there for a bit of a mix. I know that you mostly take requests from patrion and have touched the subject before.

[@bellmiokozlov2659]

I won’t really argue about which field of linguistics is prevalent in applied linguistics, but applied linguistics is not about “language helping solve real life issues”. We use language for anything in our lives, so I think you meant “linguistic theory helping solve real life issues”. Applied linguistic is much more than “deciding how to properly use a new word”, even if it does that. I think that happens naturally in the society, but maybe you meant language standardization which govs do or something. Applied linguistics is in language teaching, translation, lawmaking… Stylistics is not only about personal styles, but also all the different varieties of language used in different settings and by different groups.

[@laser8389]

Your syntax example is fun because "I only eat pickles" could be using "I only" as the subject, meaning the speaker is the sole person who eats pickles, or in other words, "Only I eat pickles." And now "only" looks weird.

[@Isvoor]

Only I have the magnificent authority to eat beautiful pickles. NO ONE ELSE

[@Somebodyherefornow]

somebody else made a video on why words go bad; please make a way more j depth video on it; like how slurs come up (without actually saying them); ex: for autistic peoples; r-word

[@stratospheric37]

xidnaf has a good video about it

[@robertwilloughby8050]

Ah, but one of my teachers, when he was taking PE, would always say "Let's begin the race", rather than "Let's start the race". We didn't think much of it at the time, but it's very quirky.

[@malenaboy]

For some reason i think a good case to study for stylistics is D, Trump.

[@thomaspscheidt3876]

thank you!!!!!

[@us3rG]

The ancients learned language like this if they were literate. They were word Smith In the beginning was the word, the word was with God and the word was God The study of language, navigation and medicine is vary important for humans, this is what kids should be learning If your homeschooling focuse on communication, navigation and medicine everything else we study is within or under these three, art, music, geography, astronomy, anatomy, math, science....everything is under the three History, poletics, religion, economics....everything under the sun leads to linguistic, navigation and medicine

[@briancops3798]

as a Political scientist student: Political linguistics

[@mortimersnead5821]

I respect your willingness to say Noam Cho**ki out loud. May the KZbin algorithm quietly pass over and not notice.

[@elinakangas571]

What is the problem with N.C.? I have heard about this person but why is he problematic for KZbin? I ask because I don't know. :)

[@maddycyclops1924]

Your definition of phonology is slightly incomplete as its not only sounds but also signs (for sign languages)

[@theconqueringram5295]

This was an insightful digest of linguistics!

[@hoangkimviet8545]

0:37 The flag of Japan!!

[@learnde3579]

whic one is easiest

[@martincatoniryan1638]

informative video! Great Job!

[@allanlank]

I can understand "Branches" being on the tree, but shouldn't the tree by IN a field. (I say by misapplying the meaning of "field"). Applied Linguistics: Telling someone to go to H**L is such a way to make them look forward to the trip.

[@lenzzzzzzz]

S MOBILE please!

[@569times9]

1000th like wohooo!

[@lloydgush]

How's Chomsky relevant?

[@stratospheric37]

he's a very famous linguist

[@lloydgush]

@@stratospheric37 How's he famous?

[@Arturino_Burachelini]

Does linguistics pay?)

[@adammonlezun3304]

Vive La Langue Gasconne

[@petraw9792]

"Zet sounds different in Chinese compared to English." That sentence makes no sense on so many levels.

[@jayfrank1913]

Your hair is epic and badass! Please don't ever cut it!

[@brianedwards7142]

When you mentioned the bat/cat rhyme I HAD to link this classic Sesame Street segment. kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5qUdal_nLyShrc

[@beepboop204]

😀

[@Gigagamerrays]

Nancy your idea was TERRABLE look at those likes how dare you suggest a video that did bad

[@josecruz-il9ym]

hmm why am I so early

[@CasualMitosisCollective]

same

[@dmc009]

I like math...