Understanding what someone says requires relating words in a sentence to one another as instructed by the grammatical rules of a language. In recent years, the neurophysiological basis for this ...

Linguistic structures comprise the organised systems by which human languages encode form and meaning. At the phonological level, inventories of sounds or gestures combine according to ...

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, ...