The study of language semantics and syntax explores the intricate relationship between meaning and grammatical structure. Contemporary research has increasingly focused on how semantic content is ...

It is widely believed that the difference between regular and irregular verbs is restricted to form. This study questions that belief. We report a series of lexical statistics showing that irregular ...

Epistemic modality refers to the linguistic means by which speakers express degrees of certainty, probability or belief regarding a proposition. It intricately links language structure with cognitive ...

An amble through the neighborhoods of North Berkeley often turns into an introspection and a treasure hunt. On one such stroll, I and my fellow amblers stumbled across an empty, upturned flower pot, ...

From: [email protected] Subject: [Speakers] Languages are parallel universes (Boroditsky talk) Date: 27 ottobre 2010 21:09:27 GMT+02:00 To: [email protected] "To have a second language is to have a ...

Holistic theories of meaning have, at least since Dummett's Frege: The Philosophy of language, been assumed to be problematic from the perspective of the incremental nature of natural language ...

*Makes one wonder what it would sound like to simply speak vector space mathematics aloud, rather than bothering with human language. "Computer science is changing the nature of the translation of ...