be conservative in one respect while simultaneously innovative in another. Bulgarian and Macedonian, closely related Slavic languages, are innovative in...

abstand language is a language variety or cluster of varieties with significant linguistic distance from all others, while an ausbau language is a standard...

Philosophy of language refers to the philosophical study of the nature of language. It investigates the relationship between language, language users, and the world...

a basic element of language that carries meaning, can be used on its own, and is uninterruptible. Despite the fact that language speakers often have...

Language acquisition is the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language. In other words, it is how human beings gain...

grammar as a system of formal rules that generate all and only grammatical sentences of a given language. What was distinctive about transformational grammar...

between literal and figurative language exists in all natural languages; the phenomenon is studied within certain areas of language analysis, in particular...

tradition in linguistics that aims to explain the cognitive basis of language by formulating and testing explicit models of humans' subconscious grammatical knowledge...

(ICCL) in the 1970s and 1980s. What started as an effort to translate between languages evolved into a much wider field of natural language processing. In...

of language, or the branch of linguistics that inquires into the nature of language and seeks to answer fundamental questions as to what language is,...

The origin of language, its relationship with human evolution, and its consequences have been subjects of study for centuries. Scholars wishing to study...

unique perspectives on syntax, reflecting its complexity and centrality to understanding human language. The word syntax comes from the ancient Greek word σύνταξις...

including the principles by which they are formed, and how they relate to one another within a language. Most approaches to morphology investigate the structure...

Second-language acquisition (SLA), sometimes called second-language learning—otherwise referred to as L2 (language 2) acquisition, is the process of learning...

terms conservative and innovative to describe the extent of change within a language variety relative to that of comparable varieties. Conservative languages...

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always bound to a root noun and is not regarded as a word on its own. However, in some languages, including English and Latin, even many roots cannot...

how a natural language is structured, as demonstrated by its speakers or writers. Grammar rules may concern the use of clauses, phrases, and words. The term...

earlier theories and was later revised in The Minimalist Program (1995) and several subsequent papers, the latest being Three Factors in Language Design (2005)...

of language characterized by taking systematically into account the speaker's and the hearer's side, and the communicative needs of the speaker and of...

of natural language qualify as constituency grammars, and most of them have been developed from Chomsky's work, including Government and binding theory...

is a list of forms and concepts which all languages, without exception, have terms for, such as star, hand, water, kill, sleep, and so forth. The number...

ISBN 978-0-19-873672-1. Room, Adrian (1996). An Alphabetical Guide to the Language of Name Studies. Lanham and London: The Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810831698. Tuite, Kevin...

writing a language, including norms of spelling, punctuation, word boundaries, capitalization, hyphenation, and emphasis. Most national and international...

Psycholinguistics or psychology of language is the study of the interrelation between linguistic factors and psychological aspects. The discipline is...

Pascal-like programming languages, such as Object Pascal, Modula-2, Modula-3, and Oberon, and other languages such as ML, Wolfram Language (Mathematica), AppleScript...

offers considerable complication in spelling and meaning and pronunciation compared with other languages. Malapropisms, which often create a similar comic...

capacity which enables an infant to acquire and produce language. It is a component of the nativist theory of language. This theory asserts that humans are born...

against the idea of a simple, underlying system for language. X-bar theory offered a more elegant and economical solution, aligned with the thesis of generative...

is an individual's unique use of language, including speech. This unique usage encompasses vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation. This differs from a...