Readers of your journal unfamiliar with modern linguistics could never have guessed from Eric Banks’s “Return to Fantasy Island” (The Chronicle Review, May 23) that my theories have been accepted by a ...

Philosophy of language and linguistic theory examine the intricate relationship between language, meaning and the mind. This interdisciplinary field interrogates the ways in which words and ...

Our goal is to present, by means of the detailed analysis of a single grammatical problem, some of the principal commitments and mechanisms of a grammatical theory that assigns a central role to the ...

The oft-noted genetic and typological diversity of the languages of the New World is due not to accidents of history but to the operation of regular principles of linguistic geography. Four building ...

A study led by McGill University researchers challenges the theory that language change over time requires new generations to replace older generations of speakers. Rather, when words change meaning, ...

Researchers believe that information theory -- the discipline that gave us digital communication -- can explain differences between human languages. The majority of languages -- roughly 85 percent of ...

Computational linguistics brings the power of computing to the study of human languages. From voice assistants and automated translation to advanced study of linguistic patterns, computational ...