<P> In older usage, especially British, philology is more general, covering comparative and historical linguistics . </P> <P> Classical philology studies classical languages . Classical philology principally originated from the Library of Pergamum and the Library of Alexandria around the fourth century BCE, continued by Greeks and Romans throughout the Roman / Byzantine Empire . It was preserved and promoted during the Islamic Golden Age, and eventually resumed by European scholars of the Renaissance, where it was soon joined by philologies of other non-Asian (European) (Germanic, Celtic), Eurasian (Slavistics, etc .) and Asian (Arabic, Persian, Sanskrit, Chinese, etc .) languages . Indo - European studies involves the comparative philology of all Indo - European languages . </P> <P> Philology, with its focus on historical development (diachronic analysis), is contrasted with linguistics due to Ferdinand de Saussure's insistence on the importance of synchronic analysis . The contrast continued with the emergence of structuralism and Chomskyan linguistics alongside its emphasis on syntax . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Look up philology in Wiktionary, the free dictionary . </Td> </Tr> </Table>

What is the difference between philology and linguistics
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