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 ...

Cognitive linguistics is a modern school of linguistic thought that originally began to emerge in the 1970s due to dissatisfaction with formal approaches to language. As I explain in my book, ...

In a re-evaluation of Hockett's foundational features that have long dominated linguistic theory—concepts like "arbitrariness," "duality of patterning," and "displacement"—an international team of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The term 'comparative paradigm' is proposed as a general description for any algorithm used in the identification of cognate sets. A minor ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A cross-generational study of speech in Havasupai, a Yuman language of Arizona, reveals a set of variable phonological rules, affecting person ...

Reacting to my interview with Shabnam Minwalla (Dec 30), K S Ravi in his letter produces a list of scholars who "do not support the Aryan invasion or migration theory," and states that none of them ...