An international team proposes replacing Hockett’s feature checklist with a model of language as a dynamic, multimodal, and socially evolving system.

Linguistics is a scientific subject, which means linguistics majors ask questions and test hypotheses about language. Students may focus on the role of language in society or how children and adults ...

The Linguistics major’s empirical breadth requirement is intended to expose you to data in one or more languages other than English through linguistics and/or language study coursework, as laid out in ...

My empirical research on linguistic practice in India has been foundational to a series of articles coauthored with Mary Bucholtz that interrogate the relationship between language and identity. Our ...

Dependency linguistics examines the relationships between words in a sentence, focussing on how syntactic structure is determined by directed links—dependencies—between a head and its dependents. This ...

Analyse language in all its forms - how it shapes our lives, connects people and drives creativity. Our course draws on insights from science and arts, and gives you a fresh, hands-on approach to ...

Are you interested in the study of language structure? Linguists investigate how people obtain their knowledge about language, how this knowledge interacts with other cognitive processes, how it ...

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, ...

Spoiler Warning: If you haven't seen Arrival and plan to soon, you might want to save this article for after. The most exciting thing about Denis Villeneuve’s new sci-fi space-encounter movie isn’t ...