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The World and the LAnguage

2. Answer the questions.

  1. What fields and aspects of linguistics do you know?

  2. Does American English belong to Indo-European linguistics in the largest sense?

  3. Does synchronic take no account of history?

  4. Why is the distinction between synchronic and diachronic linguistics very important?

  5. What is comparative linguistics?

  6. What is the definition of structural linguistics?

  7. What is the subject matter of phonetics?

  8. What is the definition of grammar?