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

Tracing the evolution of English verbs over 1,200 years -- from the Old English of “Beowulf” to the modern English of “The Princess Diaries” -- researchers have found that the majority of irregular ...

Tracing the evolution of English verbs over 1,200 years - from the Old English of "Beowulf" to the modern English of "The Princess Diaries" - researchers have found that the majority of irregular ...

Sometimes the core concepts of Russian can seem very alien to native English speakers. The fact that Facebook language discussions bombard newbies with boatloads of seemingly meaningless linguistic ...

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Frequently spoken words are less likely to change over time, according to two studies of how languages evolve in response to how often a word is used in everyday situations. One of the studies found ...

The New Oxford American Dictionary announced today on its blog that the 2009 Word Of The Year is “unfriend.” Unfriend – verb – To remove someone as a ‘friend’ on a social networking site such as ...