A casual reader of one of the major texts in linguistic theory, Kayne (1994), may be struck by the statement that "reverse German" does …
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We have discussed some interesting food-related etymologies in our past blogposts, where we could see that the origin of food items often is reflected …
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 …
In the Western world, we are increasingly being told to pay attention to what information sources the media use. We have recently seen the …
In our last post, Loren A. Billings compared the pronoun systems of his two native languages: English and Tagalog. He pointed out some distinctions …
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 …
Bird names are an exceptionally good source for funny and descriptive nomenclature. They also have some of the most predictable etymologies around as they …