To recall, intransitive verbs are handicapped by their inability to take a direct object. Another way of saying this is that a subject cannot perform the action of intransitive verbs on a direct ...

Human everyday communication is spoken rather than written, but the overwhelming majority of psycholinguistic research underlying models of sentence processing is still based on reading rather than ...

Focuses on understanding verbs, explaining their two main categories: action verbs and state of being verbs. It distinguishes between transitive and intransitive verbs based on whether they have a ...

Nama, a Papuan language spoken in southern New Guinea, indexes the person and number of the A argument of a transitive verb with a suffix, and the P argument with a prefix. For a large subset of ...

If your brain is yet to kick into gear this new year, don't worry, Newsweek is here to help with Thursday's Wordle. Years after coming up with the initial concept, New York-based software engineer ...

While these days Wordle is a global sensation, it has very humble origins. The word-based puzzle was invented during the Coronavirus lockdown by New York-based software developer Josh Wardle. He ...

Grade school English teachers do their best to send you off into the world with at least a cursory understanding of how language works. Maybe you can tell your dependent clauses from your independent ...

Shiggoap Alfie Price is a student of three Southeast Alaska Native languages and leads Sm’algyax classes online. (Photo by Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO) This is Tongass Voices, a series from KTOO sharing ...