Harold in Clifton Park, N.Y., wrote recently to ask me about the grammar of the sentences “I couldn’t care less” and “I could care less.” Until then, I thought there were just two kinds of people in ...

In a new article appearing in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, led by Cory Shain and Hope Kean, explore how the human brain shows ...

The study of language semantics and syntax explores the intricate relationship between meaning and grammatical structure. Contemporary research has increasingly focused on how semantic content is ...

One of my biggest complaints about terminology in the industry is the claim that data from conversations is “unstructured data”. That is nonsense. After all, how do people communicate, either in voice ...

Benjamin Bruening, Ph.D., is a professor with the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the University of Delaware. He received his Ph.D. in linguistics in 2001 from the Massachusetts ...

Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It investigates the subconscious and systematic knowledge that speakers of a language possess. Such knowledge allows them to communicate and ...

Dr. Han wrote her Ph.D. dissertation on a cross-linguistic investigation into the structure and interpretation of imperatives (2000, Garland Publishing, New York). Her main areas of research are ...