Readers of your journal unfamiliar with modern linguistics could never have guessed from Eric Banks’s “Return to Fantasy Island” (The Chronicle Review, May 23) that my theories have been accepted by a ...

The father of modern linguistics delivered the first of several public lectures at UCLA on Monday as part of a weeklong lecture series. Noam Chomsky, a professor emeritus at the Massachusetts ...

Philosophy of language and linguistic theory examine the intricate relationship between language, meaning and the mind. This interdisciplinary field interrogates the ways in which words and ...

In a re-evaluation of Hockett's foundational features that have long dominated linguistic theory—concepts like "arbitrariness," "duality of patterning," and "displacement"—an international team of ...

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, ...

Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, Vol. 14, No. 4 (Nov., 1996), pp. 673-723 (51 pages) This paper addresses the question whether the type of passive that a language has is or is not related to ...

Our M.A. is a flexible program of study that provides training in linguistics and/or cognitive science. Students may propose a customized program of advanced study that combines elements from either ...