Researchers have sought to prove the existence of such long-debated “ universals ” governing languages across the globe. Now, ...

You may think you’re a stickler for all things grammar-related, but don’t be surprised if you realize you’re guilty of these tricky mistakes. You probably mean “I couldn’t care less,” which means that ...

Young children often write as they speak. But the way we speak and the way we write are not quite the same. When we speak, we often use many clauses (which include groups of words) in a sentence. But ...

Many linguists have proposed that languages spoken by numerous non-native speakers tend to have simpler grammars. A new study challenges this claim. By analyzing a global sample of 1,314 languages, ...

Despite the vast diversity of human languages, specific grammatical patterns appear again and again. A new study reveals that around a third of the long-proposed "linguistic universals"—patterns ...