English example sentences with "philology"

Professor Smith is recognized to be one of the greatest scholars in English philology.

Philology and medicine were named by Nietzsche to be "the two great opponents of all superstition".

From a translation I demand that it combine fidelity with sonority, and that it incorporate the genius of the language that it is written in, and not that of the original language. A good translator, therefore, needs to be intimately acquainted with the philology of a language pair.

I'm teaching in the philology department.

"You speak English really well." "Of course. I studied philology in college." "Philology? What's that? Don't you mean languology?"

In this case the master of Comparative Philology disregarded the phonetic laws which he had himself helped to establish.