Linguistics
by Empire State College
1. branches of study
1.1. phonetics
1.2. evolutionary linguistics
1.3. historical linguistics
1.4. sociolinguistics
1.5. psycholinguistics
1.6. neurolinguistics
1.7. language acquisition
1.8. discourse analysis
1.9. pragmatics
1.10. applied linguistics
1.11. biolinguistics
1.12. clinical linguistics
1.13. computational linguistics
1.14. developmental linguistics
1.15. language geography
1.16. linguistic typology
2. topical division
2.1. semantics
2.2. grammar
2.2.1. morphology
2.2.2. syntax
2.2.3. phonology
2.2.3.1. phonetics
3. related area of study
3.1. semiotics
3.2. literary theorists
3.3. psychology
3.4. speech-language pathology
3.5. informatics
3.6. computer science
3.7. philosophy
3.8. biology
3.9. human anatomy
3.10. neuroscience
3.11. sociology
3.12. anthropology
3.13. acoustics
4. Historical Linguists
4.1. Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913, Swiss)
4.2. Jacob Grimm (1785-1863, German)
4.2.1. Grimm's law