Tales of love and adventure from 1,000 years ago reveal a dazzling range of now-extinct English pronouns. They capture ...

How does the English language express gender? Did you know that about 25% of languages use masculine-feminine nouns and grammatical gender? These include languages like Arabic, French, German, Hebrew, ...

The Question: "It seems like there are only a handful of English-speaking people who know how to use pronouns, especially personal pronouns. I constantly hear statements like 'Him and me' used as a ...

LAST week, I explained why the nominative and subjective cases are lumped as just a single case in modern English, thenpointed out that nouns don’t inflect or change form at all in these two cases and ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Philosophers of language spend a lot of time debating the ins and outs of the semantics of names. I am a linguist ...