Not long ago, a cellphone was a cell phone. A teenager was a teen-ager. Goodbye was good-bye. A website was a Web site. Legroom was leg room. Words and compounds evolve all the time. But in this ...

New grammar book for the CHamoru language has just been published. The author, Sandra Chung, a linguistics professor at the University of California-Santa Cruz, spent 11 years working on "Chamorro ...

Anyone who knows, or intuitively understands, that two words describing a noun are hyphenated ends up writing some compounds ...

His early successes in the 1960s, writing in the complex vein of high modernism, yielded later in his career to a more ...

I remember the first time I attended a linguistics lecture as an undergraduate in Argentina. The lecturer asked a simple ...

As we use words to communicate, we not only have to choose what to say and how to say it, but also what not to say.

The visuals being used by the White House frame real victims of war as game avatars. And avatars, by definition, are not ...

Hospital staff and GPs have been told to wear masks as authorities scramble to understand why meningitis is spreading so ...

Politicians said every child should be taught coding for future job security, yet AI has made 10,000 Australian programmers ...

Not all residents were satisfied with the outcome. Bill Hardin argued the board bypassed the formal rezoning process required under the county’s 2019 zoning ordinance.

This week's letter to the editor of the Sheboygan Press says Congress should stand up for itself instead of letting the Supreme Court 'define things.' ...

It’s difficult to enforce a liberal arts curriculum on a student body that largely does not want one. Do Trinity students ...