Penn State Professor of German and Linguistics Michael Putnam has spent a good part of his career thinking about language ...

Language semantics and syntax are crucial components of linguistics that explore how meaning is constructed and how sentences are structured. Recent research in this field has focused on various ...

Human communication is powered by rules for combining words to generate novel meanings. Such syntactical rules have long been assumed to be unique humans. A new study, published in Nature ...

THE LITTLE DISTURBANCES OF MAN by Grace Paley. 189 pages. Viking. $4.50. In this fast and fickle culture, British Critic Cyril Connolly once declared, it is ambition enough for any author to set out ...