Ancient grammatical puzzle solved after 2,500 years
15 Dec 2022 A grammatical problem which has defeated Sanskrit scholars since the 5th Century BC has finally been solved by an Indian PhD student at Cambridge...
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“Never was so much owed by so many to so few”: Could phrases like this hold clues about universal grammar?
16 Dec 2015 A new research project examining a linguistic construction called the Verb Second constraint could, academics believe, help to explain how people...
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… dot, dot, dot: how the ellipsis made its mark
21 Oct 2015 We avoid them in formal writing but they pepper our emails … In 'Ellipsis in English Literature', Dr Anne Toner explores the history of dots, dashes...
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The riddle of the Syriac double dot: it’s the world’s earliest question mark
21 Jul 2011 Manuscripts written in Syriac, an ancient language of the Middle East, are peppered with mysterious dots. Among them is the vertical double dot or...
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