Cognitive linguistics is a modern school of linguistic thought that originally began to emerge in the 1970s due to dissatisfaction with formal approaches to language. As I explain in my book ...

Books: Semantics; Books: Semantics. 5 minute read. TIME. January 24, 1938 12:00 AM GMT-5. ... And since language is the main instrument in regulating social relationships, ...

William Croft, University of New Mexico professor of linguistics and author of the recent book Verbs: Aspect and Causal Structure (2012; Oxford), among many others, gave a LingCircle presentation on ...

It is difficult to overstate Jackendoff's significance to the fields of linguistics and cognitive science. Among many other things, he is the developer of a unified theory of phrase structure (called ...