The way a language encodes gender suggests a subtle link to how its speakers view their own personalities. A recent study ...

Many languages recycle words, giving them different meanings. For example, in English, "run" can mean to move quickly but ...

Language plays an increasingly important role in search. Revealing the similarities and differences between languages through network science might seem daunting, but researchers at the Tokyo ...

There are more than 7,000 languages in the world, and their grammar can vary a lot. Linguists are interested in these differences because of what they tell us about our history, our cognitive ...

A massive new analysis of over 1,700 languages shows that some long-debated “universal” grammar rules are actually real. By using cutting-edge evolutionary methods, researchers found that languages ...

This is important original research that exposes a neglected obstacle to a free and unified Korea. Unification will not be secured by law, diplomacy, or military power alone. It will also depend on ...