If wordplay were an Olympic sport, rising Yale sophomore Caleb Madison would be packing his bags for London. Indeed, during its coverage of the Olympic games this summer, NBC will profile Madison, ...

A Pennsylvania professor is under school investigation after he was caught on video saying the N-word three times in a class. “When I was a young man, that was a very commonly used word. You know what ...

Augsburg University in Minnesota suspended a professor for using the N-word during a class discussion about a James Baldwin book in which the word appeared -- and for sharing essays on the history of ...

Nouns are by far the largest category of words in English. They signify all kinds of physical things both living and inanimate. They also signify imagined things like ‘a ghost’; and ideas or concepts, ...

We propose an account of linking patterns that does away with intermediary mechanisms such as thematic or actor/undergoer hierarchies. Instead, constraints on word classes, defined by both syntactic ...