Linguistics is generally defined as the scientific study of language.
Linguistics is the course of language.
As modern linguistics aims to describe and analyze the language people actually use, and not to lay down rules for "correct" linguistic behavior,it is said to be ().
Linguistics is the study of language as a system of human ().
General linguistics is generally the study of language as a whole.
Modern linguistics is mostly prescriptive, but sometimes descriptive.
Linguistics
Modern linguistics regards the written language as primary, not the written language.
Semantics is the main part of linguistics.
Historical linguistics equals to the study of synchronic study.