Why something is called aam (mango), something else called pata (leaf) and another boi (book) seemed to be arbitrary, accdidental, so long to linguists in the world. It was for long believed that ...

Many writers have expressed scepticism about the explanatory power of transformational generative grammar, but little of this scepticism has been aimed towards formal semantics for natural languages.

We know that words change all the time and over time, a process language experts describe as “semantic shift,” semantics being the field of language concerned with meaning. Even if we may not ...

Parsing the meaning of congressional amendments is often an exercise best reserved for those with law degrees. So if, like me, you don't have one, you might have also been somewhat confused about last ...