The study of language semantics and syntax explores the intricate relationship between meaning and grammatical structure. Contemporary research has increasingly focused on how semantic content is ...

Introduction -- The Eskaleut family of languages -- The Inuit language -- The Nunavik Dialect of Inukitut -- The prehistory of the Inuit language -- Historical sources and linguistic change -- ...

The problem with “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously” lies not in its syntax but in semantics. By any semantic analysis, this sentence is pure nonsense.

Do Birds Have Language? In the cheeps, trills and tweets of birdsong, scientists find some parallels with human speech ...

Cognitive linguistics is a radical and exciting approach to language and mind. Find out what makes it new and unique.

From the language ideology discussed above, Sanskrit emerges not only as a language, but also as a profound system of spiritual expression and desire for understanding beyond our humanness. Its ...

We investigate contexts where issues such as language teaching methodology, assessment, language teacher education, and curriculum design are highly relevant, and model the mental processes and ...

Cognitive linguists typically acknowledge that it may often be useful, for practical purposes, to treat areas such as syntax, semantics and phonology as being notionally distinct.