(Originally published February 25, 2015) Bilingualism. While the name designates the ability and or state of speaking two languages, the...

(Originally published December 10, 2014) Well, um, yeah, like. People use so-called fillers to provide a lot of information in a short...

(Originally published November 21, 2014) In another post, we touched upon the arbitrariness of the designation of language versus...

(Originally published September 25, 2014) In a few other posts, we have discussed how languages change and ultimately die. These...

(Originally Published August 25, 2014) How can a language die? Is a language an entity that can exhibit the properties of life and death?...

(Originally published August 14, 2014) After a brief hiatus due to fieldwork in Greece and Turkey, we continue the blog with a...

(Originally published July 27, 2014 ) What is a dialect? The average person tosses this word around in a variety of contexts, but what...

(Originally published Jul 23, 2014) In a recent post, we began to discuss the concept of linguistic relativism. While it is clear that...

(Originally published July 13, 2014) A good way to begin a blog on the relationship between language, society and culture would be to...

Hello Beautiful People! Years ago, I used to have a different website called VeriLingo. (I tried to make it a thing but like "fetch," it...