All language teachers benefit from understanding of how language in general works. This course is designed to help students to understand and use in their language teaching the basic concepts, methods ...

Everywhere, every day, everybody uses language. There is no human society, no matter how small or how isolated, which does not employ a language that is rich and diverse. This course introduces you to ...

Hands-on introduction to computational methods in empirical linguistic analysis and natural language processing. Topics include language modeling, text classification, linguistic annotation, ...

Linguistics invites us to explore language from a scientific perspective, including how we learn to speak first and additional languages, how languages evolve, and how humans use language to ...

Standard approaches to possible-world semantics allow us to define necessity and logical truth, but analyticity is considerably more difficult to account for. The source of this difficulty lies in the ...

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, ...

Introduction -- 1. Lexicons and meaning -- 2. Syntax Part 1. Verbal markers in AAE -- 3. Syntax Part 2. Syntactic and morphosyntactic properties in AAE -- 4. Phonology of AAE -- 5. Speech events and ...