The behaviour of the Catalan locative pronoun hi is apparently arbitrary: with some movement verbs, sometimes it is necessary sometimes it is not. Even more, sometimes its presence changes the meaning of the sentence or gives rise to an ungrammatical sentence. This is because...
Most of the time we adults take language for granted, unless one day we have to learn a new one. Then, things change radically. However, things seem to work differently for her (here a picture of a baby). She can’t tie a simple knot, draw a decent...
The study carried out by the researcher Juli Cebrián from the Department of English and Germanic Philology of the UAB has examined if sequences like Spanish diphthongs play a role in cross-linguistic perception, that is, when speakers perceive the sounds...
The Bristol Business School, University of the West of England, and the AFIN Research Group, Autonomous University of Barcelona, have analysed the semantic resonance of words related to leadership (leader,...
Paul Spence is Senior Lecturer at King's College London, where he has twice acted as Head of Department for what is the only academic department of digital humanities in the world. Paul Spence has worked as a journalist, has an academic background in Spanish and Latin American studies and is an expert in digital...
Juan Uriagereka, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Maryland, was at the UAB teaching the course “Projecting from the Lexicon”, invited by the Centre for Theoretical Linguistics of the university. In this interview he talks...
Juan Uriagereka is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Maryland. A close associate of Noam Chomsky, he has published articles in the most prestigious journals in the field and books with international publishers like MIT Press, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Blackwell and Routledge....
Two researchers from the UAB worked on the European LanCook project, a new method to learn languages while cooking. With the help of digital technology, this new method promotes learning languages in real-life situations.
Relations between groups or communities, especially economic, political and socio-legal relations, are a current topic but have a long history. The Research Group on Population Contact and Immigration Matters in Ancient Greece aims...
