Yoda's green color is very well-established in the Star Wars franchise at this point, but there was a moment there when the ...

“Hi, Magi. Your eyes look so sunken! What’s going on? Are you binge-watching?” “No, Millie. I was surfing the net looking for ...

The conventional grammar wisdom is that turning verbs into nouns — or what is termed “nominalization” in linguistics — is bad for the health of one's prose. The evidence is painfully clear. Take this ...

Abstract: In two studies, we investigated the relation between information structure and argument omission in German child language in order to quantify to what extent the subject-object hypothesis (i ...

Another way of saying this is that a subject cannot perform the action of intransitive verbs on a direct object. This is why a sentence construction like the following doesn’t work: “The magician ...

To first-time learners of the English language, what could easily be its most baffling aspect is its use of the so-called causatives. English uses this strange grammatical structure to denote ...

These goats like to "herd" their verbs into categories to keep them in order. Use your knowledge of doing, saying, sensing, thinking, feeling and relating verbs to choose the right herd for your verb ...

The language capabilities of today’s artificial intelligence systems are astonishing. We can now engage in natural conversations with systems like ChatGPT, Gemini, and many others, with a fluency ...

This study investigates the influence of object animacy and perspective priming on the Action-sentence Compatibility Effect (ACE) in third-person action sentences using the sentence sensibility ...

I vividly recall when an editor in chief invited me to publish in a well-known journal. Fresh from defending my dissertation, I still grappled with understanding how publishing worked in academia—like ...

NEW YORK — With constant notification pings, our brains are always being bombarded with fleeting text. These brief encounters with written language barely register in our conscious awareness, yet ...