DeCS

Descriptor English:

Philology

Descriptor Spanish:

Filología

Spanish from Spain

Descriptor	filología
Scope note:	Estudio de la literatura en su más amplio sentido, incluida la gramática, la etimología, la crítica, la historia literaria, la historia del lenguaje, la historia lingüística, los sistemas de escritura y cualquier cosa que sea importante para la literatura o el lenguaje desde el punto de vista literario. La filología como disciplina tiene connotaciones tanto filosóficas como científicas.

Descriptor Portuguese:

Filologia

Descriptor French:

Philologie

Tree number(s):

K01.517.732

RDF Unique Identifier:

https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D010680

Scope note:

The study of literature in its widest sense, including grammar, etymology, criticism, literary history, language history, linguistic history, systems of writing, and anything else that is relevant to literature or language viewed as literature. Philology as a discipline has both philosophical and scientific overtones.

Annotation:

study of literature or language as used in literature; do not confuse with LITERATURE, literary works; general or unspecified; prefer specifics

Allowable Qualifiers:

HI histoire

DeCS ID:

10874

Unique ID:

D010680

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Date Established:

1966/01/01