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

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

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...

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

(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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

an interdisciplinary field which identifies, investigates, and offers solutions to language-related real-life problems. Some of the academic fields related...

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

Retrieved 12 May 2013. Wahlbrinck, Bernd (2017). German-English Language Interference: 56 Innovative Photocopiable Worksheets for Teachers & ESL Students. Tumbleweed...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

analyzing related languages with a technique known as the comparative method, linguists can make inferences about their shared parent language and its vocabulary...

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...

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...

groups). In the English language, there are many polysemic words that have several meanings (including demonymic and ethnonymic uses), and therefore a particular...

on effective and stylistically apt communication. If usage preferences are conservative, prescription might appear resistant to language change; if radical...

subject-prominent, nominative-accusative languages such as English, a transitive verb typically distinguishes between its subject and any of its objects, which can...

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

features of lexemes of the lexicon (vocabulary) of a language, developing theories of dictionary components and structures linking the data in dictionaries, the...

was debated whether what was most fundamental in language was compositionality or contextuality, and compositionality was usually preferred. Gottlob Frege...

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. "Names"...

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