Linguistics

This volume is interested in one aspect of language learning and teaching, intercultural education, and the role that linguistics can play in its design and implementation. The relationship between linguistics and language education has ...  

Forum: LinguisticsTopic: What are the easiest and the most difficult languages in the world?Poster: jyuan_usPost title: This is true [quote]Riccardo Schiaffino wrote: In one sense, all languages are equally easy: children learn their respective native tongue equally easily and become proficient speakers of it at the same age, no matter whether their native language is Navajo, Finnish [...]  

Secular linguists are puzzled by the existence of twenty or so language families in the world today. The languages within each family (and the people that speak them) have been shown to be genetically related, but few genetic links have been observed between families. This is a problem for secular linguists. If, as they believe, man evolved from an ape-like ancestor, man would at some point have gained the ability to speak. This process of...  

For students wondering what goes on in the minds of politicians, a UC Berkeley linguistics professor may have an answer. George Lakoff gave a lecture Thursday titled "The Brain's Language and its Politics" to an audience of about 80 people in the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library, followed by a question-and-answer session and a book signing.  

French & Applied Linguistics, General Linguistics: PhD Student, University of Illinois, USA Institution/Organization: University of IllinoisDepartment: FrenchWeb Address: http://www. french. illinois. eduLevel: PhDSpecialty Areas: Applied Linguistics; General LinguisticsRequired Language( s) : French( fra) Description:The Department of French during a University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign offers rarely rival, personalized investigate...  

Ben Slade, a grad student in linguistics, has started a blog, Stæfcræft & Vyākaraṇa (linking Old English and Sanskrit words for 'linguistics,' or as close as those languages get to the concept), and it's a gem. His last two posts are about the "likkle law" of Jamaican Creole English and the etymology of khukuri (a traditional Nepalese knife). I look forward to his future investigations.  

What is grammar? Is it different from semantics? Or is it the same as linguistics? This short run-through on grammar and some of the details will walk you through some important but unfamiliar terms, names, and other items related to grammar and linguistics.  

Forum: LinguisticsTopic: Which languages don’t have a gender system?Poster: esther tanuadjiPost title: bahasa Indonesia Hello everyone, I can say for sure that bahasa Indonesia doesn’t have a gender system. It doesn’t even have tenses and plural form. We never differentiate feminine/masculine/plural/singular noun and we always use the same verb for future/present/past. Yet, there is a book [...]  

The word paradigm has been used in linguistics and science to describe distinct concepts. To the 1960s, the word was specific to grammar: the 1900 Merriam-Webster dictionary defines its technical use only in the context of grammar or, in rhetoric, as a term for an illustrative parable or fable. In linguistics, Ferdinand de Saussure used paradigm to refer to a class of elements with similarities. From the 1960s, the word has referred to...  

Carleton Alumnus and Author Lecture Addresses 'Invented' LanguagesCarleton College NewsAs a linguistics major and graduate of the Carleton College Class of 1992, Okrent was drawn to language at a very young age. She earned an MA in Linguistics ...  

Qatar University hosts roundtable on English writingPeninsula On-lineDOHA: Qatar University's Department of English Literature and Linguistics hosted a roundtable on English Writing Pedagogy. The roundtable was aimed at ...QU tackles challenge of teaching writingGulf Timesall 3 news articles »  

Skewed ACTC participationMacalester College The Mac WeeklyShe can be found in Olin-Rice and the Humanities building most weekdays, where she takes classes for her linguistics and neuroscience double majors and ...and more »  

Deaf Student Body Welcomes New College PresidentNPRAlexander Abenchuchan, student editor of Gallaudet's campus newspaper, and Harlan Lane, a professor of psychology and linguistics at Northeastern University ...and more »  

He's The CzarHillsboro Argus - OregonLive.comWe take this journey through linguistics with some curiosity. Our newly minted president has bestowed the term czar to those he has chosen to oversee ...  

Excuse me, but do you speak Portland?OregonLive.comJeff Conn, a native of the Pacific Northwest and a doctoral student in linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania is ...