Linguists have long sought to describe unfamiliar languages. That work has taken on new urgency, though, as more and more languages become endangered. Students and faculty at William and Mary have ...

Paul McDowell writes: I am a former anthropology instructor at Santa Barbara City College, teaching among other courses anthropological linguistics that I successfully proposed in 2005 and taught ...

URDU is one of the major languages of the world and holds quite a prominent status among the South Asian languages. It is spoken in the regions where Urdu is not used as mother tongue and is ...

Linguistic structures and syntax form the cornerstone of our understanding of human language, delineating the formal rules that govern sentence formation and meaning. This area of research ...

For a long time, historical linguists have been using the comparative method to reconstruct earlier states of languages that are not attested in written sources. The method consists of the detailed ...