Language is a social art.

It seemed to a number of philosophers of language, myself included, that we should attempt to achieve a unification of Chomsky’s syntax, with the results of the researches that were going on in semantics and...

The job of the linguist, like that of the biologist or the botanist, is not to tell us how nature should behave, or what its creations should look like, but to describe those creations in...

Of all the words that exist in any language only a bare minority are pure, unadulterated, original roots. The majority are “coined” words, forms that have been in one way or another created, augmented, cut...

age” whatsoever.

I should think a dead language would be rather boring, sociallyspeaking.