North Korea is really complicated and, owing to its secrecy and near-total opacity to outsiders, really difficult to understand. So it's nearly impossible to explain the country's ongoing succession ...

Fashions in academe may be a bit more durable than those of Paris couturiers, but, like hemlines, the popularity of disciplines rises and falls. Much in vogue at the moment, right up there with ...

Linguistics was a late arrival on the academic scene. Until the 1950s, few dedicated departments existed, but then the combination of Noam Chomsky’s revolutionary theory of generative grammar and Cold ...

Morphologist and Professor at The State University of New York at Stony Brook. 2005: President of The Linguistic Society of America. Research explores almost all aspects of Morphology and its ...