Associations to the word «Dialectology»

Wiktionary

DIALECTOLOGY, noun. The study of dialects.

Dictionary definition

DIALECTOLOGY, noun. The branch of philology that is devoted to the study of dialects.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky