Nzadi is one of the most obscure tongues in the world. That's exactly why a UC Berkeley class has embraced it. "There's nothing like the joy of discovering a language from scratch," said Cal ...

Not every academic is a grammar geek. Yet most of us have pet peeves that tend to irk us when we spot them in our students’ work. And we’re spotting them more than ever, thanks to the hit that ...

The Ph.D. program in linguistics was established at the University of Delaware in 1985. Its mission is to provide students with the intellectual ability to understand, create, integrate and apply ...

Historical Linguistics explores different aspects of language change. The most commonly studied areas in historical linguistics are: Etymology: Studying the reconstruction and origin of words.

Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics (CA/IL) is the study of the mutually shaping relationship between linguistic resources and social interaction. We take a cross-linguistic and ...

Linguistics is one of the degrees most often dragged through the mud for being "useless," but The Lord of the Rings, one of the highest-grossing franchises of all time, might not have been possible, ...