A new study draws on a rigorous analysis of the Corpus of Historical Japanese to trace the semantic evolution of the verb ...

We have two new entries here, both present participles of verbs that might or might not exist. First is “efforting.” YourDictionary.com has one of the few online definitions, which consists entirely ...

New research is shedding light on what kind of sentences are best at facilitating the growth of toddlers' vocabularies. A new study provides evidence that toddlers can learn verbs after hearing them ...

I have a friend who uses “hark back” a lot in conversation. She harks back to past news events. She harks back to old times. She harks back to something I told her last month or last year. My first ...