Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mark Dingemanse: My name’s Mark Dingemanse, and I am an associate professor at the Center for Language Studies at Radboud ...

Some parts of speech get lots of attention from language researchers. Nouns and verbs certainly do, and this seems appropriate, given that they refer to the objects and the actions that make up our ...

Host Ira Flatow is joined by reporter Bob Holmes to talk about his coverage of the role of interjections in conversation. This story was originally published in Knowable Magazine. But these little ...