There’s a crisis unfolding in the field of linguistics: Global language experts estimate that, without intervention, about one language will be lost every month for the next 40 years. A study ...

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The study of language change, when viewed through the lens of construction grammar, provides a dynamic framework for understanding how individual linguistic constructions evolve and spread within ...

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A new study demonstrates that grammar is evident and widespread in a system of communication based on reciprocal, tactile interaction, thus reinforcing the notion that if one linguistic channel, such ...

The Oxford comma. “Ask” instead of “aks.” There, their, and they’re. The legitimacy of “ain’t” and “y’all.” These are familiar, if sometimes contentious, issues in the usage of the English language.

You may have heard about the marvel that is the Generative Pre-Trained Transformer, more commonly referred to as GPT-3. GPT-3 is a “large language” artificial intelligence algorithm that has achieved ...

Do you know the difference between “lie” and “lay” — not to mention “lei”? Why does the prayer read: “Now I LAY me down to sleep…”? Shouldn’t that be LIE, meaning to recline? And what’s all this stuff ...

It may seem from some of my recent newsletters — championing “they” as a singular pronoun and “me” as a subject pronoun — that there’s something about being a linguist that makes one strangely ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. By Morten H. Christiansen and Pablo Contreras Kallens, Cornell University, The Conversation By Morten H. Christiansen and Pablo ...