philology

Literary study or classical scholarship.

The love or the study of learning and literature; the investigation of a language and its literature, or of languages and literatures, for the light they cast upon men’s character, activity, and history.

Criticism; grammatical learning.

The study of language, especially in a philosophical manner and as a science; the investigation of the laws of human speech, the relation of different tongues to one another, and historical development of languages; linguistic science.

A treatise on the science of language.

The humanistic study of historical linguistics.

the humanistic study of language and literature