In a re-evaluation of Hockett's foundational features that have long dominated linguistic theory—concepts like "arbitrariness ...

Philosophy of language and linguistic theory examine the intricate relationship between language, meaning and the mind. This interdisciplinary field interrogates the ways in which words and ...

Best known as a leading Researcher on Muslim philosophers with an analytic approach, Nadia Maftouni is a senior research scholar at Yale University (2019-2021) and faculty of University of Tehran.

The mental basis of linguistic intuitions is obscure, as regards their relationship both to other aspects of language behavior, such as speaking and listening, and to an hypothesized epistemological ...

Charles Hockett’s ‘design features’ no longer reflect major findings in linguistics, cognitive science, and biology.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Among the most robust generalizations in syntactic markedness is the association of semantic role with person/animacy rank, discussed first in ...

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