Linguistics and Cryptophilology
Anton Zimmerling
July 2024 

I compare language and text as research objects and discuss the status of text linguistics aka cryptophilology. The latter exploits the philological concept of text, which is masked by the use of linguistic terms. Linguistics deals with automatically realized language structures, while cryptophilology explains how a unique speech situation is displayed in the composition of a unique text.

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Reference:	lingbuzz/008272 (please use that when you cite this article)
Published in:	Iomdin, Leonid, Milićević, Jasmina & Polguère, Alain, eds. (2022). Lifetime linguistic inspirations: To Igor Mel'čuk from colleagues and friends for his 90th birthday [Wiener Slawistischer Almanach, Sonderband 101 (2022)]. Peter Lang Verlag, 519 – 529. DOI: 10.3726/b20216
keywords:	language, text, linguistics, philology, speech situation, uniqueness, syntax, phonology, semantics, morphology
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