John Lyons
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LOCATION: Cambridge, United Kingdom
Master of Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge. Professor of Linguistics, University of Sussex, Brighton, England, 1976–84. Author of Introduction to Linguistic Semantics; Language and Linguistics.
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Linguistics, the scientific study of language. The word was first used in the middle of the 19th century to emphasize the difference between a newer approach to the study of language that was then developing and the more traditional approach of philology. The differences were and are largely…
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