by Hélène Gérardin Compound verbs are constructions consisting of a verb and a noun with a number of distinctive properties, much like the English expressions to take notice and to get rid. They are...
by Hélène Gérardin One is smooth and orange and hails from the Netherlands; the other is white, holey and salty, with its origins in the mountains of eastern Georgia. And yet, both go by...
by Melinda Fodor Without two fundamental inventions—language and writing—knowledge could not have evolved. Among different writing and calculating systems, there was an ancient Indian script, Brāhmī, which gave rise to an ingenious numbering system...
by Guillaume Jacques Speakers of European languages are all familiar with the concept of grammatical tense, which is marked in conjugation to show whether an action takes place before (past), during (present), or after...
by Melinda Fodor Prakrit is a kind of Cinderella among the classical languages of India. Initially a humble language of ordinary communication, it was considered a collection of “incorrect” dialects by the Sanskrit grammarians....
