by Alex Garcia There has been a growing global awareness of the loss of linguistic diversity since the end of the twentieth century. The …
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by Gerd Carling The very concept of ‘secret’ languages appears as if it is taken out of a novel. We automatically think of military …
In a previous post I discussed reduplication, with a particular focus on Austronesian languages. If English were to have such grammatical features, it would …
Laughter is universal – all cultures enjoy jokes and laughter. Sometimes we cannot stop ourselves from laughing, even at a bad pun such as …
A casual reader of one of the major texts in linguistic theory, Kayne (1994), may be struck by the statement that "reverse German" does …
Reduplication is a very common morphological device used throughout the world. However, Europe being an exception as it is an area where it is …
Different Interrogative words function to target different parts of a sentence. Interrogative pronouns replace and target a noun (what and who), whereas interrogative adverbs …
by Loren A. Billings I grew up speaking two languages: English, the one that I was exposed to from the very start, and Tagalog, …
Before kicking off another semester of blogging about language diversity, we thought it might finally be time to introduce ourselves properly. And what better …
On the 25th of July, Sandra posted a brilliant blogpost about different patterns that can emerge when loan words are integrated into native phonological …