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Evaluation of Linguistic anthropology

 * C-Class Wikipedia article
 * Language not clear, difficult to follow
 * Author is not neutral ("very creative" )
 * Does not provide a broad and encompassing overview
 * Specific, selected studies are used that cannot be generalized to the entire field


 * Sections on identity, social spaces, ideologies, and socialization are not described generally as principles/concepts

Concepts learned from Linguistic anthropology
Linguistic anthropology focuses on the influence of language on various aspects of social life, including identity, socialization, group membership, communication, social spaces, cultural beliefs, and ideologies. Historically there have been three paradigms within the field, specifically anthropological linguistics, linguistic anthropology, and anthropological issues studied via linguistic methods and data. Work in the field has involved documenting extinct languages and studying different languages and their effects within various societies.

Evaluation of Historical linguistics

 * Start-Class Wikipedia article
 * Facts are not supported by sources and lack citations
 * Not all sentences are grammatically sound and well-structured/clear
 * Sub-field of phonology not related to historical linguistics
 * All sub-fields are weakly related to historical linguistics [I added my commentary to the Talk page]
 * Evolutionary context section is very sparse

Concepts learned from Historical linguistics
Historical linguistics is the study of languages and their development and change over time. It originally began as comparative linguistics and later evolved into a broader field. Synchronic analysis focuses on the language as situated within the present, whereas diachronic analysis views the language in regards to its development over time, primarily using the comparative method and internal reconstruction to ascertain what changes have occurred and have influenced the present form of the language. Sub-fields of historical linguistics include comparative linguistics, etymology, dialectology, phonology, morphology, and syntax.

Evaluation of Syntax

 * C-Class Wikipedia article
 * Facts are not supported by sources and lack citations
 * Very limited number of references for the amount of facts presented
 * Sub-sections of Modern Theories (Stochastic/probabilistic grammars/network theories and Functionalist grammars) are very sparse
 * Sequencing of subject, verb, object section is very sparse

Concepts learned from Syntax
Syntax is the study of word order and the overall structure of sentences and utterances within a language. Modern theories of syntax include generative grammar (grammar as a product of the properties and rules of the universal inner language embedded within the human mind ), categorial grammar (grammar as reliant upon the syntactic categories of words ), dependency grammar (grammar as consisting of roots and dependencies that relate to those roots ), stochastic grammar (grammar as based on probability theory ), and functionalist grammar (grammar as focusing on the communicative function of a sentence ).