What shapes the structure of languages? In a new study, an international team of researchers reports that grammatical structure is highly flexible across languages, shaped by common ancestry, ...

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International Mother Language Day, celebrated each year on 21 February, is an opportunity to highlight the instrumental role of the languages we inherited in early childhood, whether we call them ...

The Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations offers degree programs in Arabic, Chinese, Hindi-Urdu, Japanese, and Korean; by its very existence, it brings global diversity to the curriculum and ...

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Linguists have long been interested in language variation. What are common or universal patterns across languages? What limits the possible variation between them? Grambank, the world's largest and ...

Grammatical similarity in the Grambank sample of languages. The color coding represents the distribution of languages according to the first three principal components of a Principal Component ...