Linguists have long sought to describe unfamiliar languages. That work has taken on new urgency, though, as more and more languages become endangered. Students and faculty at William and Mary have ...

A new article describes an experiment that illustrates how the classical method for the reconstruction of unattested languages can also be used to predict hitherto undocumented words in poorly ...

URDU is one of the major languages of the world and holds quite a prominent status among the South Asian languages. It is spoken in the regions where Urdu is not used as mother tongue and is ...

Explore our campus, meet lecturers and current students, and learn more about what it's like to study at Manchester. Ranked a UK Top 10 for Linguistics by the QS World University Rankings by Subject ...

The first HALS workshop with approximately 60 participants was a varied event with many different activities. Apart from very rich description of their respective field experiences from our invited ...

Language research at the University of Helsinki has always maintained its strong commitment to a better understanding of cultural areas and their history. Situated in an ideal place for the study of ...

Linguistic structures and syntax form the cornerstone of our understanding of human language, delineating the formal rules that govern sentence formation and meaning. This area of research ...