Quotes by : Charles Yang

Universal grammar is about what language is: it is to be distinguished from prescriptive grammars, often....

Chromosomes. Sex. Grasshoppers. "Pick me up, Mommy."This is an odd list, except in the eye of evolution.....

Now we have come full circle to the subtitle of this book: children learn by unlearning other languages.....

Language guardians have often blamed linguists as defenders of bad language: moral and cultural relativism....

Is language actually getting better, shorter, and easier? Nowadays we often hear exactly the opposite.....

So is language change progress or degeneration? It is neither, of course. To assert that language change....

Language is what we use to tell stories, transmit knowledge, and build social bonds. It comforts, tickles,....

The true structure of the Welsh grammar will be revealed only when we look at sentences slightly more....