Harold in Clifton Park, N.Y., wrote recently to ask me about the grammar of the sentences “I couldn’t care less” and “I could care less.” Until then, I thought there were just two kinds of people in ...

As language users we monitor our own writing, speech, reading, and oral reception of sentences as shaped by grammatical relations. We, in fact, cognize language as such in the act of using it, and we ...

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, ...

Language is a unique evolutionary achievement considered to have decisively driven the sophistication of human cognition 1. Comprehending spoken language, which is the focus of this article, is the ...

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 -- ...

In modern linguistics, the study of language is often separated into distinct areas such as phonetics (sound production and reception), phonology (sound patterns), semantics (word and sentence meaning ...