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September 26, 2016
Teen Talk
Teenagers get a lot of bad press. Whether it's how they look, how they dress, the things they say, the way they say it - it sometimes seems as if they…
July 21, 2015
The Indo-European Controversy
Who were the Indo-Europeans? Were they all-conquering heroes? Aggressive patriarchal Kurgan horsemen, sweeping aside the peaceful civilizations of Old…
September 29, 2014
Fixing English
Language change is like a river. When people tell you how to use language, and how not to use it, they're attempting to build a dam that will put a st…
April 26, 2014
A Syntax of Substance
Nouns are the bread and butter of linguistic analysis, and it's easy not to reflect too hard on what they actually are and how they work. In A Syntax …
March 29, 2014
The Bilingual Mind And What It Tells Us about Language and Thought
Big ideas about language often ignore, or abstract away from, the individual's capacity to learn more than one language. In a world where the majority…
May 20, 2013
Saussure
Pretty much everyone who's done a linguistics course has come across the name of Ferdinand de Saussure - a name that's attached to such fundamentals a…
May 6, 2013
Universals of Comparative Morphology
Morphology is sometimes painted as the 'here be dragons' of the linguistic map: a baffling domain of idiosyncrasies and irregularities, in which Heath…
March 1, 2013
The Linguistic Cycle
In language, as in life, history is constantly repeating itself. In her book The Linguistic Cycle: Language Change and the Language Faculty (Oxford Un…
November 18, 2012
Sociolinguistic Typology
If you had to bet your life on learning a language in three months, which language would you choose? Peter Trudgill's first choice wouldn't be Faroese…