0 the study of language, especially its history and development
After the classical period, grammar becomes restricted to the linguistic aspects of philology.
Our great writers sensed the need for enriching and cultivating the language of the people without resorting to the means of scientific philology.
I recommend this book highly to all serious scholars as a fine example of linguistic philology.
Philology is more than mere linguistics, more than a hollow theory for armchair academics, since it is a practical guide for the people.
He was the first scholar to transfer the strict standards of philology to musicology.
Only philology is able to bring order into this mishmash.
This was not just a result of finer disciplinary boundaries, philology moving away from medical science.
His blacklist of charming and amusing sciences included not only metaphysics, literature, philology, and alchemy but also the higher forms of astronomy and mathematics.
