0 the study of language, especially its history and development --
The liberal arts (philology, history and the cultural sciences) had since 1975 a preponderance of women students.
Comparative philology was the indispensable tool for these studies.
This sort of hyper-historicist philology did in fact produce path-breaking, notoriously painstaking scholarship, and new respect from colleagues abroad.
However, philology usually goes further and tries to ascertain whether its allied language also has significance for the future of the people.
Linguistics is a general science (algemeyne visnshaft), philology a national (natsyonale) one.
Nevertheless, both bilingual and philology students lacked meta-language in providing explanations, although the level of declarative knowledge of the philology students was higher.
Yet, only a social institution is likely to organize the work of philology in its whole breadth.
His blacklist of charming and amusing sciences included not only metaphysics, literature, philology, and alchemy but also the higher forms of astronomy and mathematics.
