Hidatsa, a Siouan language spoken on the Fort Berthold reservation in central North Dakota, has five morphemes with approximative force. This paper documents their semantics and distribution in ...

Sino-Tibetan linguistics encompasses the comprehensive study of a language family that includes Chinese and Tibeto-Burman languages, characterised by a remarkable diversity in phonological, ...

Our M.A. is a flexible program of study that provides training in linguistics and/or cognitive science. Students may propose a customized program of advanced study that combines elements from either ...

Learning Goals Introductory Narrative Linguistics involves the scientific study of the nature and structure of human languages. The Brandeis Language and Linguistics major offers a dynamic approach 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, ...