If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?

OFTEN in our English-language readings, we come across sentences that have certain words evidently missing yet surprisingly read right and sound right as well: "Those who wish to [...] can very well ...

The preceding chapter showed how sentences can be streamlined by reducing their adjective clauses to adjective phrases — a simple process that omits the relative pronouns “that,” “which,” “who,” “whom ...

A team of researchers from Saarbrücken and Leipzig has examined around 1,700 languages to identify structures that might ...