How do you decide if something is its own language or just a dialect of another language?
How did historical linguists figure out the ancestor language to all the Indo-European languages? Or the Dravidian languages? Or any other group of languages that people believe to be related? The comparative method is how.
How are sentences actually formed in language? This post is answering the first part of this question.
How do languages organize different units of meaning in a word? What even is a word? How does meaning relate to writing and sound? All of these and more will be answered in this blog post.
We know how sounds work biologically, but how do languages perceive them?
How do sounds work? How do you organize any sound biologically possible for humans? All these and more will be answered in this blog post.
I talk about a very unique opportunity that high schoolers interested in linguistics can take part in.
How can the idea of derivatives as linear operators be applied to more complex functions, like multivariable functions, vector-valued functions, and vector fields? How does this relate in the slightest to AI?
How did people suddenly start thinking about languages scientifically? What were the results of this primary branch of linguistics?
You may have heard the Kepler’s law about planets sweeping equal areas in equal times, but this kind of sounds weird. Here’s the proof.
I found this problem that’s really easy but I had a really goofy solution.
Lol I found this while ice skating and proved it as rigorously as possible in my head while simultaneously figuring out how to ice skate without looking like a monkey.
We know how sounds work biologically and how they are perceived, but how do linguists write them?
Most problems are either computational or proofs… but this one’s a disproof, which will hopefully spice up 2026 a little.
Answering the following questions - Why are matrices considered linear? How can differentiation also be interpreted as this?
How do different types of writing systems work? What are they evolved from, and how? All these and more will be answered in this blog post.
