We show that, contrary to long-standing assumptions, syntactic traits, modeled here within the generative biolinguistic framework, provide insights into deep-time language history. To support this ...

'Instant Scholar' is a Times of India initiative to make academic research accessible to a wider audience. If you are a Ph.D. scholar and would like to publish a summary of your research in this ...

Introduction: Human language allows us to generate an infinite number of linguistic expressions. It’s proposed that this competence is based on a binary syntactic operation, Merge, combining two ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I reveal how modern-day generative AI and ...

Noam Chomsky is a leading linguistic scientist and a longtime professor at MIT. His 1957 book Syntactic Structures outlined his theories of transformational generative grammar and made him a prominent ...

This project aims to exploit the critical mass developed at Durham around the interplay of cognitive and cultural evolution, to extend its international reach, develop wider connections, across ...