philological
1
9.9
- adjective
- /ˌfɪləˈlɒdʒɪkəl/
- Formal
- The professor gave a fascinating lecture on the philological development of the English language.
- philological and historical
- philological and literary
- philological criticism
Examples
-
Stanzel brought to his research a background of rich historical and philological knowledge not easily available to present-day academics.
Academic text (2004) -
Firstly, literary studies abandoned that older model of philological, historicist scholarship much earlier than biblical studies.
Academic text (1992) -
The very first appeal to the public was made by the Philological Society in 1857.
Blog text (10) -
You enlightened the membership about philological contributions to Spanish from the New World.
Academic text (1999) -
In fact, no reason exists as to why the school's specific philological methods must be restricted to native-language sources.
Academic text (2003) -
A shortened version of this paper was presented at the November 1991 meeting of the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast.
Academic text (1992) -
What about all the philological evidence given in Professor Nussbaum's paragraph 177?
Academic text (1994) -
Therefore, there are serious methodological limitations to any purely philological theory of aesthetic illusion, including the present one.
Academic text (2004) -
In this country and in England, the study of English literature began in the latter part of the 19th century as an exercise in the scientific pursuit of philological research, and those who taught it subscribed to the notion that literature was best understood as a product of language.
Academic text (2009) -
In the course of explicating these texts, Stillinger examines important philological, intertextual, and theoretical problems while offering insights into a variety of medieval traditions.
Academic text (1993)
Synonyms
33
4.8
About language and how people use and understand it
How Scholarly
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word philological comes from Greek parts philo- ('love') and logos ('word' or 'speech'), so it literally points to a 'love of words'. You can see philo- in philosophy and the log root in dialogue or logic, and that is why philological means the careful study of words and old texts.