The father of modern linguistics delivered the first of several public lectures at UCLA on Monday as part of a weeklong lecture series. Noam Chomsky, a professor emeritus at the Massachusetts ...

VOLTAIRE defined Etymology as a science where vowels signify nothing and consonants very little. This is so far true that even the wisest books on Language affect one, after all, like a series of ...

Jennifer Manoukian, a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Irvine, said Armenians still long to preserve their language because they share the belief that if they lose their language, they lose ...

AN American scholar of wide range, at the same time thorough and unpretentious, is a rarity; a philologist who is neither perversely wrongheaded nor the victim of a preconceived theory is a still ...