The article presents a retrospective analysis of jurislinguistic knowledge in the context Western science. basic principles legal linguistics as neophilological direction modern humanities are determined, ideas new scientific concepts that dominant world actualized, key jurisliguistics prospective field determined. There were comprehensively analyzed papers on jurislinguistics, linguoexpertolog...

More and more researchers in linguistics use large-scale experiments to test hypotheses about the data they research, in addition to more traditional informant work. In this paper we describe a new set of free, open-source tools that allow linguists with little background in programming or experimental methods to post studies online. These tools allow for the creation of a wide range of linguis...

Historical relationships among languages are used as a proxy for social history in many non-linguistic settings, including the fields of cultural and molecular anthropology. Linguists have traditionally assembled this information using the standard comparative method. While providing extremely nuanced linguistic information, this approach is timeconsuming and labor-intensive. Conversely, comput...

earlier linguistic studies of political discourse revealed that, not many works exist on pragmatic analysis of impoliteness in this genre. apart from mullany (2002), who employs relational and face works to analyses impoliteness in political discourse, taiwo (2007), adetunji (2009), and ademilokun (2015), who employ discourse analytical tools in analyzing the political speeches, there exist ver...

We are concerned with the impact of rapid progress in genetics and cognitive neuroscience on linguists’ conceptions of the biological bases of language and on the overarching issue of nature and nurture in linguistics. The particular focus of our discussion is the recent claim (Dediu & Ladd 2007) that there is a causal relationship between genetic and linguistic diversities at the population le...

After the Arab-Muslim conquest (c. 650 CE), what we know of Middle Persian literacy in territory known as Ērānsahr is still little documented. Precisely, there evidence about linguistic developments during first two centuries but for an extract allegedly written by ibn al-Muqaffa. Most scholars’ debate on this passage based studied – mainly, inscriptions found south western part Sasanian empire...

As a psychologist who studies sentence comprehension and holds a joint appointment in the departments of psychology and linguistics, I have frequent opportunities to observe the interaction, or lack thereof, between the two disciplines. Although cognitive psychology and formal linguistic theory share some common history in Chomsky's (1959) pivotal review of Skinner's (1957) book on language beh...

Writing deep linguistic grammars has been considered a highly specialized skill, requiring the use of tools with steep learning curves and complex installation procedures. As the use of statistical methods has increased, new generations of computational linguists are getting less and less prepared for grammar writing tasks. In an aim to provide a better learning experience for grammar writers, ...

Afroasiatic is the fourth largest linguistic phylum in the world, with about 375 living languages spoken by some 300 million speakers (www.ethnologue.org). In the view of the contributors to this volume, this number may well be an overestimation. For the Chadic family alone Ethnologue estimates over 190 languages, while most linguists working in the area estimate the number to be between 140 an...