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So... What's the difference between linguistics and philology?
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Philology is more concerned with the study of written texts, while linguistics is generally focussed on speech. There is of course a lot of overlap between the two. Early studies of Proto-Indo-European were done by philologists, though nowadays it's conducted using linguistics. I've never heard of any philology being done recently though; I think it's pretty much done.
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OneLook says:
philology:
noun: the humanistic study of language and literature
linguistics:
noun: the humanistic study of language and literature
http://www.onelook.com/
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