Syntactic researchers in the Department ask how syntactic patterns are shaped by and shape communicative practice, focusing on construction-based grammatical explanation, the origins of grammatical ...

Formal methods in language syntax and semantics encompass a range of logical and algebraic frameworks designed to characterise grammatical structure and meaning assignment with mathematical precision.

There is so much more to sign language than the hands, as interpreter Christine Dudley demonstrates. Carlo Allegri/Reuters Most people are familiar with sign language, the system that deaf people use ...

What makes language special is part of what makes us special, so understanding what language is made of and how we learn it brings us closer to our human nature. Is language special because it runs on ...