Linguistics is the science of language ... Linguists interested in language structure consider the formal properties of language, including word structure (morphology), sentence structure (syntax), ...

Hopefully you are able to realise that words in a sentence are not just randomly placed components that could be rearranged in any order and still result in the same meaning or even just make sense ...

The educational mission of the Linguistics department is to provide students with insight into the fundamental design features of language—its sound patterns, its word- and sentence-formation devices, ...