The New York Times’ expanding library of digital word puzzles received yet another surge of attention today as players logged in for NYT Strands #645, the Monday edition that continues the publication ...

William of Normandy's conquest in 1066 changed England and its language. The Anglo-Saxon King Harold lost, deeply affecting language evolution. French influenced English significantly. Around 40% of ...

Written by a leading authority on the subject, the fifth edition of this bestselling book provides students with a thorough grounding in the essentials of sentence structure and the fundamentals of ...

In this text we’ll talk about syntax and semantics, so it’s important that we understand what these terms mean, particularly in the context of computer programming. In a (natural) language course—say ...

Everybody likes ghazals. Or they do when they learn what they are: A ghazal is a poetic form originating in and strongly associated with the Islamic cultural sphere. It is a medieval thing—or what ...

This course gives an introduction to some of the most important (morpho)syntactic changes in the English language in the period c.1380-1800, i.e. late Middle English and early Modern English. These ...

In our everyday communication we continually exchange thoughts and ideas by means of coding and decoding information, which may also entail the exposition of emotional content. And so we not only ...

English continues to dominate global communication, but its role in programming has always been a topic of debate. Douglas Crockford, the creator of JSON.org and a key figure in JavaScript development ...

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As middle and high school students engage with complex texts, their diverse reading skills become increasingly apparent. I have found it challenging and time-consuming to scaffold comprehension for ...