Unlocking the Universe of Languages
Excorporation is a rare linguistic process where a grammatical piece, once bound inside a larger word, "escapes" to become an independent word itself. We explore this fascinating phenomenon, using the…
When you ask, "Do you speak English?", what is the word 'do' really doing? This seemingly simple word is actually a linguistic fossil, the ghost of a once-mighty action verb.…
Did you know the future tense in languages like French and Spanish is a linguistic fossil? It didn't evolve from the Latin future but from a common phrase meaning "I…