Filologia e Lingüística: enlace, divórcio, reconciliação

Abstract

The article deals with the relationships between Philology and Linguistics along the history of the studies of the language and seeks to define the respective objects and fields of analysis. It presents the question of the philology’s ambiguity, pointing out its broad scope (linguistic and literary studies, as well as the editing of texts) and its restrict scope (the science of the establishment of a critical edition). Next, it tackles the relationships between Philology and Linguistics, which are complementary and not antagonic since they yield intrinsic relationships. Finally, after considering fundamental issues to philologic analysis, the article presents the relationships of involvement between Philology and Linguistics as a result of a joint work of both.

Keywords

• philology
• linguistics
• historical-comparative linguistics
• “complementarity”
• involvement