Re: OT: Colleges and linguishtics and philology, oh my!

Hello,

> That's an accurate, and very polite, way of stating the difference.
> Otherwise, most card-carrying linguists _in the US_  nowadays would
consider
> "philology" a rather quaint, if not downright pejorative term, even though
> historically it antedates "linguistics" by a good bit, I think.  It may
> still be used in Europe; I think one of our Russian members mentioned
having
> a degree in Philology.
Most possibly you're referring to me mentionig I was going to the
University's Faculty of Philology.
Here in Russia, Philology is Lang. & Lit., usually kept quite separate.
Historical Studies (such as PIE) are the domain of Linguistics aka
Yazykoznaniye exclusively.

Oh well, perhaps I was speaking of a future degree in Philology for myself
:-)

--Pavel