Harold in Clifton Park wrote recently to ask me about the grammar of the sentences "I couldn't care less" and "I could care less." Until then, I thought there were just two kinds of people in the ...

Auditory illusions, like how a word begins to sound meaningless when repeated, offer clues into the structure of language.

Harold in Clifton Park, N.Y., wrote recently to ask me about the grammar of the sentences “I couldn’t care less” and “I could care less.” Until then, I thought there were just two kinds of people in ...

Lexical semantics can be defined as ‘the study of meaning’, therefore semanticists are interested in the lexical meaning of words rather than grammatical meaning. It is not so much a practical topic ...