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, ...

Journal of Slavic Linguistics, Vol. 25, No. 2, Special Issue: Silver Anniversary Issue (summer-fall 2017), pp. 367-386 (20 pages) We outline some recent highlights in the application of cognitive ...

The human brain processes spoken language in a step-by-step sequence that closely matches how large language models transform text.

This module discusses the conceptual and theoretical foundations of linguistics. It is the counterpart to the module “Usage-based Language Description” (Module 2). While the latter focuses on basic ...

Two studies that appear in the August/October 2005 issue of Current Anthropology challenge established linguistic theories regarding the language families of Amazonia. Two studies that appear in the ...

The origin and genesis of Urdu has always been a subject of animated discussion — and a source of unending controversy — among linguists. There is a wide range of theories about how Urdu originated ...

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, ...