Linguistics is the scientific study of language – its structure, its history, how it works and how it changes.
One of the most interesting aspects of linguistics is language theory. It deals with the nature of language itself: what it is, how it works and why it evolved the way it did.
Language theory is fascinating because it provides us with a window into the mind of humans and into our evolutionary history.
Read our latest posts on language theory:
When talking about languages, it’s often marked in how many countries they are the national or official language in. For example, English is an official language in 54 states. But very little attention is paid to correctly using the terms… Continue Reading
Because languages are freely evolving phenomena with the sole purpose of facilitating communication between people, it’s hard to separate them into static boxes. As we have previously covered on our blog, even coming to a strict conclusion as to what… Continue Reading
In order to properly systematise a language, it’s important to group together words that have some aspects in common. That way, you simply need to learn a limited amount of grammar rules that apply to these classes, instead of learning… Continue Reading
Several times in this blog, we have covered the similarities between different languages and often come to the conclusion that, in the case of very closely related languages, it is as if they are more dialects of the same language… Continue Reading
Most of the time when somebody considers learning Cantonese, Vietnamese, Thai, or any of the other hundreds of languages that use tones, they will encounter a person discouraging them from learning it because it is obviously impossible to learn a… Continue Reading
