Yesterday, I saw a woman trip on the pavement. She immediately turned to her husband and started to complain. San Miguel de Allende, where my husband, Peter, and I spend much of the winter, is a city ...

These histories may be carved in rock and wood, or woven into textiles. "Even if many ethnic groups do not have their own written language, they preserve history through oral traditions — songs, ...

The Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley has published an expanded edition of the ...

Paul Brainerd did two things that rarely sit comfortably together. He helped make publishing cheaper and easier, then spent much of what he earned trying to protect the landscapes that were being ...

The primary obligation of any government, the Declaration of Independence tells us in its famous second paragraph, is the “safety and happiness” of its citizens. The necessity of securing safety is ...

It might be your fault, or the fault of the pavement, or the fault of your shoes, but it almost certainly has nothing to do with your husband, and the odds are he is wearing sensible shoes. Carrie ...

It is widely believed that language is structured around ‘constituents’, units that combine hierarchically. Using structural priming, we provide evidence of linguistic structures — non-constituents — ...

When talking about language in prose fiction, there are a number of things you could look for: For example, the word 'desk' literally denotes a table, but it has connotations of work and study. Words ...

Yesterday, I saw a woman trip on the pavement. She immediately turned to her husband and started to complain. I couldn’t hear all she was saying, but I was thinking there was really no point in ...

One of the first things I learnt to say in Dutch was ‘we beat them to death with sticks’. Not exactly standard fare for the first week of language classes, but then again this wasn’t an ordinary ...