Lexical semantics can be defined as ‘the study of meaning’, therefore semanticists are interested in the lexical meaning of words rather than grammatical meaning. It is not so much a practical topic ...

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, ...

My work uses the tools of logic to analyze the grammatical representations of meaning within the language faculty. The spirit of this work follows the semantic projects laid out by generative ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. THE highly endangered language of the Menominee Indians of Wisconsin in the US is spoken by only a handful of elderly people. But last ...

Linguistics is the scientific study of human language, aiming to answer the question “What do we know when we know a language?” Although language is involved in nearly every aspect of the human ...

It’s a very satisfying thing to learn that there’s a word for an experience you didn’t know could be described by a word. Learning that, for example, clinomania is an “excessive desire to stay in bed” ...

Many Italian texts, lexicons, and dictionaries are just a click away, interacting seamlessly to form a bridge between words and knowledge. This enables users to see, and thus predict, where these ...