A new study draws on a rigorous analysis of the Corpus of Historical Japanese to trace the semantic evolution of the verb ...

A verb is a doing word. It explains what is happening, a state of being or an action. Verbs are an essential part of a sentence as they indicate tense close, for example past, present or future. In ...

As a linguist, I’ve lost count of how many times I have been asked what I think of the various language-learning apps. The truth is that I don’t use them. But of late I have been watching my daughter, ...

Natural languages comprise elaborate systems of rules that enable one speaker to communicate with another 7. These rules serve to simplify the production of language and enable an infinite array of ...