In an earlier post, Is There A Language Instinct?, based on my book, The Language Myth, I observed that the philosopher and linguist, Professor Noam Chomsky, argues that Universal Grammar can be ...

What do all languages have in common? Geoff Pullum on the elusive universal grammar of human languages. Whatever their mother tongue, babies acquire it long before they learn to read and write. How do ...

The cover for Daniel Everett's Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Profile Books). | Via Flickr CC BY Few scientific disagreements lead to public controversy. But ...

ABSTRACT: Wh-question has aroused considerable attention of linguists around the world. English is a wh-movement language, while Chinese is commonly recognized as a wh-in-situ language. By the advent ...

ABSTRACT: Poetic sentences words are placed unlike other sentences, besides each other in a special way, so that their lingual role is not the tool-oriented one to transfer message to the audience, ...

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