glottology
(glɒˈtɒlədʒɪ)
[f. as prec. + Gr. -λογία discourse: see -logy.]
The science of language: comparative philology; = glossology 1 b.
| 1841 Prichard Nat. Hist. Man (1845) 132 Glottology, or the history of languages, founded on an accurate analysis of their relations, is almost a new field of inquiry. 1849–52 Todd Cycl. Anat. IV. ii. 1345 There is no department of ethnology in which progress is at present so rapid, as it is in the study of glottology. 1868 Max Müller in Sel. Ess. (1881) I. 29 The conception of a science of language, of Glottology, was reserved for the nineteenth century. |
Hence glottoˈlogic, glottoˈlogical adjs. = glossological; gloˈttologist = glossologist 1 b.
| 1848 Edin. Rev. LXXXVIII. 478 Thus it appears that glottological considerations afford a strong presumption in favour of the origin of the nations of Asia, Europe, America, and Polynesia, from one common stock. 1874 Sayce Compar. Philol. vi. 236 As glottologists, we have to begin with roots. 1879 Cayley in Trans. Philol. Soc. 588 A wide scope for glottologic observation and research. 1883 St. James's Gaz. 26 Jan. 6 The glottological aspect of the question. 1893 Athenæum 23 Dec. 883/1 A general glottologist of the rarest attainments. |