Vivarium, Vol. 45, No. 2/3, Special Issue: The Many Roots of Medieval Logic: The Aristotelian and the Non-Aristotelian Traditions (2007), pp. 238-252 (15 pages) The notion of 'symbol' in Eriugena's ...
In modern linguistics, the study of language is often separated into distinct areas such as phonetics (sound production and reception), phonology (sound patterns), semantics (word and sentence meaning ...
In this paper, I argue that while truth-conditional semantics in generative linguistics provides lots of good semantic explanations, truth-conditions do not play an important role in these ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. THE highly endangered language of the Menominee Indians of Wisconsin in the US is spoken by only a handful of elderly people. But last ...
Words are being stripped of meaning. But the brawl over words like ’alt-right’ and ’ilk’ can make it hard to focus on the fights that really matter Screenwriter and actress Lena Dunham speaks to a ...
During this month's faculty meeting, the Program in Linguistics was approved to be its own academic unit, separating it from ...
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, ...