In fact, language mixture is a central feature of Latinx speech in the United States; in research on the subject, the terms language-mixing and code-switching are typically treated as synonymous.

If language-as-code is taken too literally, the idea of optional rules, levels of formality, dialects, idiolects, variation, natural change over time and sheer fun will not compute.

The idea that language is a homogeneous code is a massive simplification. In actual fact, we constantly use a wide array of codes, be they other languages, dialects, registers, or special purpose ...

Complex grammar of the genomic language Date: November 9, 2015 Source: Karolinska Institutet Summary: The 'grammar' of the human genetic code is more complex than that of even the most intricately ...

There’s a crisis unfolding in the field of linguistics: Global language experts estimate that, without intervention, about one language will be lost every month for the next 40 years. A study ...

Yes, language is constantly changing, he writes in his essay, "but that doesn't make grammar unimportant." Those who pay attention to the rules of good grammar, Wiens says, will probably pay ...