Second language acquisition (SLA) of aspect and tense occupies a central role in applied linguistics, as it elucidates how learners come to express temporal distinctions in a non-native tongue. This ...

The progressive aspect, traditionally employed to indicate ongoing or unfolding actions, has evolved significantly across the anglophone world. Originally confined to dynamic verb contexts, its ...

A study of the history and spelling of English suffixes demonstrates that the spelling of English words is more orderly and self-organized than linguistics have previously thought. A Stony Brook ...

The world faces a future of people speaking more than one language, with English no longer seen as likely to become dominant, a British language expert says in a new analysis. “English is likely to ...

Text readability encompasses two aspects, namely, ease of comprehension and ease of processing (in relation to the effort ...