There is something enduringly mysterious about the human capacity for language. Our mouths and throats contain an array of muscles and tissue that allow us to modulate the air we take in, transforming ...

The study of language semantics and syntax explores the intricate relationship between meaning and grammatical structure. Contemporary research has increasingly focused on how semantic content is ...

Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose, by Constance Hale (Broadway Books, 285 pages, $20). Too many words, and often the wrong ones, have been cluttering up business for decades. And ...

This paper will deal with three questions regarding Carnap's transition from the position he held at the time of writing Syntax to the doctrines he held during his semantic phase: (1) What was ...