Linguistics endeavors to answer the question: what is language and how is it represented in the mind?
Linguists describe and explain languages. The main goal of the linguist is to try to discover the universals concerning language, in other words, what the common elements of all languages are.
Linguistics is a social science that shares common ground with other social sciences such as psychology, anthropology, sociology and archaeology.
Within linguistics you can find several different disciplines, such as phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, language acquisition, etc. Let’s have a brief definition of the ones we are going to deal with:
- Morphology, which is the study of word formation and structure.
- Syntax, which is the study of sentence structure.
